is a 1955 color
Japanese film directed by
Umetsugu Inoue
was a Japanese people, Japanese film director and screenwriter, scriptwriter. He directed 115 movies, wrote 101 screenplays, and is credited with the original story for five films. In addition, he worked with all six major Japanese film producti ...
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Cast
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Ruriko Asaoka (
浅丘ルリ子)
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Frankie Sakai
(13 February 1929 – 10 June 1996) was a Japanese comedian, actor, and musician.
Career
From his days at Keio University, Sakai worked as a jazz drummer at American Army camps during the Occupation of Japan, often doing comic routines with his ...
(
フランキー堺)
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Mie Kitahara (北原三枝)
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Minoru Takada
Minoru is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Minoru Arakawa (荒川 實, born 1946), Japanese former president of Nintendo of America
*Minoru Chiaki (千秋 実, 1917–1999), Japanese actor
*Minoru Fujita ( ...
(高田稔)
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内海突破)
* (市川俊幸)
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Ayuko Fujishiro (藤代鮎子)
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Ichirō Arishima
was a Japanese comedian and actor. Nicknamed "The Japanese Chaplin", he is best known outside Japan for his appearance as Tako, the promoter of King Kong in ''King Kong vs. Godzilla'' (1962).
Arishima's real name was Tadao Oshima. He was bor ...
Overview
A musical action film for children, this is the first feature-length theatrical film shot in Konicolor. It's based on the eponymous novel by Makoto Hojo, and marked the debut of 14-year-old Ruriko Asaoka, who plays a girl on the run from a spy ring trying to steal her father's scientific secrets.
References
1955 films
Films directed by Umetsugu Inoue
Nikkatsu films
Japanese musical films
1955 musical films
1950s Japanese films
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