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Funky Hat no Kaidanji: Nisenman-en no Ude

Hepcat in the Funky Hat: The Case of the 2,000,000 Yen Arm
Vigilante in the Funky Hat: 200,000 Yen Arm

Japan 1961
produced by
Toei
directed by Kinji Fukasaku
starring Sonny Chiba, Hitomi Nakahara, Mamoru Ogawa, Shiro Okamoto, Susumu Hajima, Rikiya Iwaki

Hepcat in the Funky Hat

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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All young Hiro (Sonny Chiba) wanted to do was steal a date with pretty Miyako, and suddenly he's a suspect in the murder of a plastic surgeon. Now that's not such a good thing, but since Hiro thinks he's a star private detective anyways, just because his father runs a detective agency, he figures he'll be able to solve the case on his own, a case that soon takes him to a mysterious island, where he meets ... Miyako. You see, Miyako is a sport reporter, and she tries to track a college baseball player down who has mysteriously disappeared just before he could sign up with any of the big teams. Hiro soon figures the two cases are connected to one another and wants to work together with Miyako, but she thinks he's a reporter for a rival newspaper trying to steal her scoop, so she tries to shake him every step along the way, until she falls into the hands of the baddie of the piece, the baseball players manager, who keeps the boy confined to his basement after an accident that could have cost him his career - but with the help of a plastic surgeon (whose assistant was the dead man) he could be made presentable for a transfer to a top team. The manager is already trying to tie up all loose ends when hero intervenes, his father and the police in tow, and he sees to it that the manager and his cronies get their just desserts while he himself gets the girl.

 

Mildly entertaining and completely pointless murder mystery/comedy that's very competently done but offers nothing new to the genre, instead follows similar US-American B-movies from about 20 to 30 years ago to the letter, at least storywise, regarding its silly setup, far-fetched plottwists and ultimate resolution. That's not to say this is a really bad film though, it's enjoyable enough to kill less than an hour of time in fact, but ultimately it's nothing more than just another genre flick.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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