ESPY (film)
| ESPY | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Jun Fukuda |
| Produced by |
Fumio Tanaka Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Written by |
Sakyo Komatsu(novel) Ei Ogawa(screenplay) |
| Starring |
Hiroshi Fujioka Kaoru Yumi Masao Kusakari Eiji Okada Tomisaburo Wakayama |
| Music by |
Masaaki Hirao Kiyohiko Ozaki |
| Cinematography | Shôji Ueda |
| Edited by | Michiko Ikeda |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Toho |
Release dates | December 28, 1974 (Japan) |
Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
ESPY (エスパイ Esupai) is a 1974 film based on the novel of the same name by Sakyo Komatsu. The film was directed by Jun Fukuda from a screenplay by Ei Ogawa. It stars Masao Kusakari, Kaoru Yumi, Tomisaburo Wakayama, and Eiji Okada. The film was released to U.S. television under the title E.S.P./Spy, which remained onscreen for its VHS release under the international title, ESPY.[1]
Plot
The International Psychic Power Group is a covert organization financed by the United Nations. Made up of clairvoyant supermen under the guise of the International Pollution Research Center, they wage a private war against enemies that threaten world peace and the total annihilation of the human race. With hostility between the East and West reaching a boiling point, four Eastern European delegates are assassinated aboard the Milan-Geneva international express on their way to the United Nations for the Mediation Committee of International Dispute. The Baltonian Prime Minister is the next to be targeted for termination. A ruthless psychic assassin named Goro hunts down the psychokinetic saviors, themselves marked for death by an anti-ESPY group led by the insidious and superhuman Ulrov who plans to destroy mankind by initiating World War 3.
Cast
- Yoshio Tamura ......... Hiroshi Fujioka
- Maria Harada ......... Kaoru Yumi
- Jirou Miki ........ Masao Kusakari
- Houjou ........ Yuuzou Kayama
- Wolf ....... Tomisaburo Wakayama
- Gorou Tatsumi ...... Katsumasa Uchida
- Prime minister of Baltonia ........ Steve Green
- Sarabad ........ Eiji Okada
- Teraoka ........ Gorou Mutsumi
- Godnof ....... Jimmy Show
- United Nations negotiation committee member Ａ ........ Roger Woode
- United Nations negotiation committee member Ｂ ........ Annest Harness
- Ｐ・Ｂ ......... Andrew Hughes
- Abdullah ......... Willie Dorsey
- Bohl ......... Hatsuo Yamaya
- Gyaku-ESPY（Counter ESPY） A .......... Ralph Jesser
- Gyaku-ESPY（Counter ESPY） B ......... Gelmal Riner
- Gyaku-ESPY（Counter ESPY） C ......... Franz Gruber
- Gyaku-ESPY（Counter ESPY） D ......... Burt Johansson
- Secretary prime minister Baltonia ......... Jan Dickene
- Prime minister guards official Baltonia ..........Gunter Grave
- Captain special passenger plane ........ Robert Dunham
- Special passenger plane vice-captain ......... Henry
- Miki of boyhood ......... Julie Club
- Judy ........ Luna Takamura
- Judy of girlhood ........ Kelly Vancis
References
- ↑ "Authors : Komatsu Sakyō : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". Retrieved 2014-07-01.
External links
- ESPY at the Internet Movie Database
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