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    What’s Up Tiger Lily? (1966)

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    One of Toho Studios’ International Secret Police series, the already tongue-in-cheek Bond-spoof Kagi No Kag (“Key of Keys”), becomes an even more demented parody of Sixties spy film conventions in the hands of comedian/dubbing director Woody Allen, in this side-splittingly, funny melding of Eastern and Western pop cultures.

    Allen took the Japanese spy film and dubbed the original characters’ voices with American actors, to tell a different story completely – one that loosely revolves around the stealing of the world’s best egg salad recipe – with music by The Lovin’ Spoonful, and starring Tatsuya Mihashi, with Akiko Wakabayashi and Mie Hama – the Bond girls in You Only Live Twice. (1967)

    A girl escapes from prison and ends up in a car driven by Phil Moscowitz. Phil is captured and taken to meet the head of a country that is so new that it isn’t on the map. The ruler wants Phil to find the secret recipe for the world’s best egg salad. He’ll have a couple of female assistants.

    Phil has competition in the form of Wing Fat. Wing is on the gambling boat of Shepherd Wong. Wong stole the recipe and Wing gets it and takes Wong’s picture. He says when developed Wong will be naked and Wing says he’s going to show it everywhere. He escapes to a waiting boat.

    Before the movie goes much further Woody shows up.

    He’s asked to explain the movie so far because it’s complicated. He refuses. Back to the movie.

    Woody had just enjoyed success with What’s New, Pussycat? (1965) which was his first screenwriting credit.

    Although he was reportedly unhappy with how What’s Up Tiger Lily? turned out, it was popular with audiences.

    At the end of the film is a very memorable cameo striptease by Playboy playmate China Lee, one of the most popular centrefolds of the decade.

    Narrator/Host
    Woody Allen
    Phil Moscowitz
    Tatsuya Mihashi
    Terri Yaki
    Mie Hama
    Suki Yaki
    Akiko Wakabayashi
    Shepherd Wong
    Tadao Nakamaru
    Wing Fat
    Susumu Kurobe
    Voices
    China Lee
    Frank Buxton
    Len Maxwell
    Louise Lasser
    Mickey Rose
    Julie Bennett
    Bryna Wilson
    The Lovin’ Spoonful
    The Lovin’ Spoonful

    Director
    Senkichi Taniguchi

    Compiled by
    Woody Allen

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