Black Tight Killers

Black Tight Killers (俺にさわると危ないぜ, Ore ni Sawaru to Abunaize), literally - "If you touch me, danger" is a 1966 Japanese film directed by Yasuharu Hasebe and based on the novel 三重露出 by Michio Tsuzuki.[2][3]

Black Tight Killers
Japanese theatrical poster
Directed byYasuharu Hasebe[1]
Written byRyūzō Nakanishi
Michio Tsuzuki
StarringAkira Kobayashi
Chieko Matsubara
Music byNaozumi Yamamoto
CinematographyKazue Nagatsuka
Edited byAkira Suzuki
Distributed byNikkatsu
Release date
February 12, 1966
Running time
86 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Synopsis

Daisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane back to Japan. After drinking with her at a Tokyo bar, he becomes involved in saving Yuriko from assassination by stylish, female ninjas. When trying to rescue Yuriko from kidnappers, Daisuke discovers a group of foreigners are hunting for a World War II-era treasure hidden on an island by Yuriko's father.[1][4][5]

Cast
  • Akira Kobayashi as Daisuke Honda[2]
  • Chieko Matsubara as Yuriko Sawanouchi
  • Mieko Nishio as Fuyuko
  • Kozue Kamo as Yoshie
  • Satoko Hamagawa as Natsuko
  • Akemi Kita as Akiko
  • Archie Hays, Jr. as American Gangster
  • Keisuke Noro as Man A
  • Shuntarō Tamamura as Man 1

Release

Black Tight Killers was released on February 12, 1966.[6] It was released in the U.S. during this era.[7][8] It was released in DVD format in Japan in 2005.[9] Image Entertainment released the film on DVD in the United States. This DVD has the burned-in subtitles which were part of the film's original U.S. release.[8]

Critical appraisal

Jonathan Crow of Allmovie notes that the influence of Hasebe's mentor Seijun Suzuki can be seen in Black Tight Killers. Like Suzuki, he uses the tropes of the gangster genre to create "a pop-art dreamscape" with "tail fins, flawless fashion, sudden and unexpected go-go dancing, cool jazz, and freakish violence". Hasebe's quirky use of gaudy color is singled out for comment in the review, which judges the film to be "wild, decadent fun".[10]

In his survey of the pink film genre, Steve Fentone sums up Black Tight Killers with, "Chix with guns. What more do ya need?"[7] Jasper Sharp writes that the plot is not especially impressive, but of Hasebe's visuals, he comments, "there is not a single individual sequence here that fails to deliver enough great dollops of saccharine-coated eye candy to satisfy even the most jaded visual gourmand". He concludes, "this simply magical film is a hoot from start to finish".[8]

Bibliography

English
  • Black Tight Killers at AllMovie
  • Ore ni sawaru to abunaize (1966) at IMDb
  • "ORENI SAWARUTO ABUNAIZE". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
  • Sharp, Jasper (2001-05-10). "Black Tight Killers". midnighteye.com. Retrieved 2010-02-18.

Japanese

Notes
  1. "俺にさわると危ないぜ". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Retrieved 2010-02-18.
  2. 俺にさわると危ないぜ (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
  3. 日活アクションの華麗な世界：1954-1971 第十三章無国籍性の持続-爛熟期における小林旭 p.340-359 暴力のプロたち-「夜の勲章」「俺にさわると危いぜ」その他 ISBN 4624710878
  4. Crow, Jonathan. "Black Tight Killers: Plot Synopsis". Allmovie. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
  5. 俺にさわると危ないぜ(邦画 ) (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
  6. "俺にさわると危ないぜ" (in Japanese). Nikkatsu. Retrieved August 31, 2016.
  7. Fentone, Steve (1998). "The Black Tight Killers; A Rip of the Flesh: The Japanese 'Pink Film' Cycle". She. 2 (11): 8.
  8. Sharp, Jasper (2001-05-10). "Black Tight Killers". midnighteye.com. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
  9. 俺にさわると危ないぜ(1966) (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
  10. Crow, Jonathan. "Black Tight Killers: Review". Allmovie. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
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