Atout cœur à Tokyo pour OSS 117
Atout cœur à Tokyo pour OSS 117 | |
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Directed by | Michel Boisrond |
Screenplay by | Pierre Foucaud Marcel Mithois |
Story by | Terence Young |
Produced by | Paul Cadéac |
Starring | Frederick Stafford Marina Vlady Jitsuko Yoshimura |
Cinematography | Marcel Grignon |
Music by | Michel Magne |
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Release date | October 1966 |
Running time | 101 minutes |
Country | France |
Atout cœur à Tokyo pour OSS 117 (English: Trump-Card in the Heart of Tokyo for OSS 117) is a
The film was shot on Japanese locations and featured action scenes arranged by Hunebelle's
Though based on Jean Bruce's character, the film features an original story by the first James Bond director Terence Young. The film was released a year before the James Bond film You Only Live Twice and has some similarities to that film and the future James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me as well as previous 007 films such as Thunderball.
Plot
The film begins with a
OSS 117 attends a briefing of American Defence Chiefs who view
Mr Smith tells OSS 117 that their man in Japan Mr Ralston has provided a report of miniature fighters being developed and to keep an eye on an American embassy employee named Eva Wilson (Marina Vlady). Ralston has vanished but OSS 117 arranges to meet Eva posing as her husband John Wilson who is in Washington. Eva says that she has been blackmailed due to her being drugged and being photographed in bed with a man who was not her husband. Eva provided radio codes of the American base that had been destroyed that allowed The Organisation's secret weapon to destroy the installation.
OSS 117 places a
The real John Wilson (
Cast
- Frederick Stafford as Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117
- Marina Vlady as Eva Wilson
- Henri Serre as John Wilson
- Colin Drake as Babcock
- Jitsuko Yoshimura as Tetsuko
- Valéry Inkijinoff as Yekota
- Jacques Legras as Mister Chan
- Billy Kearns as Mister Smith
- Mario Pisu as Vargas
- Hiroshi Nihonyanagi as Secret Service Chief
- Hiroshi Minami as Martial Arts Expert
References
- ^ "Mission to Tokyo". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2014-05-13.