I watched this movie and I loved it. A new entry in my Top 20! Tony Anthony is great. Some parts are cheesy (like the narration), but it gives the movie charm I think. The movie is never boring, the characters are great and some shots are really cool. Like the shots in the rain, the long bridge and Anthony hanging on a cross. Also the humor is not misplaced. The language problem was well done. Like Anthony, I also could not understand the Japanese.
I read that the film lay on a shelf for 7 years and then was cut and re-edited. And that Anthony was not happy with the result. That made me really curious about the original movie. Maybe even better then this one. But I guess we will never see it.
Interesting, title alone makes this seem like the type of movie I would ordinarily completely write off, but the fact that you and a few other people above are praising it so much makes me want to check it out.
Funnily enough Iāve just watched The Stranger Returns for the first time and Iām thinking of watching this one soon. Not sure what Iāll think of it but Iāll give it a go.
I read conflicting info: it was produced in 1968 but hey do we list it under 1969? Also, should we not list it by year of first release, which is 1975 or 1974? We need some more reliable info :))
If the film was indeed an Italian-American-Japanese co-production, it should be catalogued by both ANICA and the American Film Institute. But thatās not the case. So we donāt have a single reliable source and have to rely on the information provided by IMBb. The German release date given by German Wikipedia seems correct.
