Woody Allen re-dubs the Japanese spy film Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi (1965), turning it into a comedy about a secret agent recovering the world's greatest egg salad recipe.Woody Allen re-dubs the Japanese spy film Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi (1965), turning it into a comedy about a secret agent recovering the world's greatest egg salad recipe.Woody Allen re-dubs the Japanese spy film Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi (1965), turning it into a comedy about a secret agent recovering the world's greatest egg salad recipe.
Frank Buxton
- Vocal Assist
- (voice)
Louise Lasser
- Suki Yaki
- (voice)
Julie Bennett
- Vocal Assist
- (voice)
Len Maxwell
- Vocal Assist
- (voice)
Mickey Rose
- Vocal Assist
- (voice)
Bryna Wilson
- Vocal Assist
- (voice)
Tatsuya Mihashi
- Phil Moscowitz
- (archive footage)
Akiko Wakabayashi
- Suki Yaki
- (archive footage)
- (as Kiko Wakabayashi)
Hideyo Amamoto
- Cobra Man
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Steve Boone
- Steve Boone - The Lovin' Spoonful
- (uncredited)
Joe Butler
- Joe Butler - The Lovin' Spoonful
- (uncredited)
Susumu Kurobe
- Wing Fat
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
China Lee
- Stripper During End Credits
- (uncredited)
Kumi Mizuno
- Phil's Date
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Tadao Nakamaru
- Shepherd Wong
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Woody Allen(aided & abetted by)
- Senkichi Taniguchi(original Japanese version)
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- TriviaThe addition of The Lovin' Spoonful was a studio imposition to bump up the running time. Woody Allen was so incensed by this that he threatened to sue the studio, although he later recanted when the film became a hit.
- GoofsWhen the Port of Yokohama is shown, the captions call it "Yokahama".
- Crazy creditsThere are no ending credits. Instead, the film concludes with Woody Allen nonchalantly lounging on a couch and eating an apple, while China Lee (who does not appear elsewhere in the film) performs a striptease. A slow-moving series of titles appear to the right of the screen reading: "The characters and events depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental. And if you have been reading this instead of looking at the girl, then see your psychiatrist, or go to a good eye doctor." An eye chart scrolls by as Lee continues her routine, but as she prepares to remove her panties, Allen stops her and tells the audience, "I promised I'd put her in the film... somewhere". The scene freezes on this moment as a "The End" title card appears.
- Alternate versionsUK versions are cut by 8 secs under the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937 to remove a shot of a snake attacking a chicken in a cage.
- ConnectionsEdited from Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kayaku no taru (1964)
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Tiger Lily Serves Up A Loving Spoonful of Some REALLY Good Egg Salad
A woman steps into the room wearing a towel. She and her lover gaze longingly at each other. "Name three presidents!" she says.
In the wake of his early successes as a writer, Allen obtained the rights to an extra-cheesy Japanese spy thriller, threw out the entire soundtrack, then wrote and dubbed in a new script. Mix in a "what has this got to do with anything?" soundtrack by the folk-rock 60s group The Lovin' Spoonful and a few new scenes, and the result is the infamous WHAT'S UP, TIGER LILY? And it is one of the most bizarre movies you're likely to see this lifetime, a film which has attained cult-movie status of the highest order.
The movie is uneven--but that is actually part of its charm. Where else can you see big-haired 60s mamas get down like psycho killers to the innocuous music of The Lovin' Spoonful? Or tacky special effects, inept hop-and-chop fighting, and ridiculously bad cinematography reworked into the story of a bunch of spies on the track of a recipe for the world's best egg salad? And some of the lines are a hoot and a half. My own favorite: "Bring plenty of dynamite. It's a big mother!" Hardcore Allen fans, who often approach him as if he were God, will probably be embarrassed by this movie. Allen himself is pretty embarrassed: he's been trying to live it down for years. But if you have a taste for the bizarre--not to mention some good, I mean REALLY good egg salad--TIGER LILY is the movie for you. Recommended to egg salad junkies, bad hop-and-chop movie watchers, and cult-film enthusiasts everywhere.
Gary F. Taylor, aka GFT, Amazon Reviewer
In the wake of his early successes as a writer, Allen obtained the rights to an extra-cheesy Japanese spy thriller, threw out the entire soundtrack, then wrote and dubbed in a new script. Mix in a "what has this got to do with anything?" soundtrack by the folk-rock 60s group The Lovin' Spoonful and a few new scenes, and the result is the infamous WHAT'S UP, TIGER LILY? And it is one of the most bizarre movies you're likely to see this lifetime, a film which has attained cult-movie status of the highest order.
The movie is uneven--but that is actually part of its charm. Where else can you see big-haired 60s mamas get down like psycho killers to the innocuous music of The Lovin' Spoonful? Or tacky special effects, inept hop-and-chop fighting, and ridiculously bad cinematography reworked into the story of a bunch of spies on the track of a recipe for the world's best egg salad? And some of the lines are a hoot and a half. My own favorite: "Bring plenty of dynamite. It's a big mother!" Hardcore Allen fans, who often approach him as if he were God, will probably be embarrassed by this movie. Allen himself is pretty embarrassed: he's been trying to live it down for years. But if you have a taste for the bizarre--not to mention some good, I mean REALLY good egg salad--TIGER LILY is the movie for you. Recommended to egg salad junkies, bad hop-and-chop movie watchers, and cult-film enthusiasts everywhere.
Gary F. Taylor, aka GFT, Amazon Reviewer
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