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 |
|
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
- Hiroshi Fujioka as Yoshio Tamura
- Kaoru Yumi as Maria Harada
- Masao Kusakari as Jirou Miki
- Yuuzou Kayama as Houjou
- Tomisaburo Wakayama as Wolf
- Katsumasa Uchida as Gorou Tatsumi
- Steve Green as Prime minister of Baltonia
- Eiji Okada as Sarabad
- Gorou Mutsumi as Teraoka
- Jimmy Show as Godnof
- Roger Woode as United Nations negotiation committee member A
- Annest Harness as United Nations negotiation committee member B as
- Andrew Hughes as P B
- Willie Dorsey as Abdullah
- Hatsuo Yamaya as Bohl
- Ralph Jesser as Gyaku-ESPY (Counter ESPY) A
- Gelmal Riner as Gyaku-ESPY (Counter ESPY) B
- Franz Gruber as Gyaku-ESPY (Counter ESPY) C
- Burt Johansson as Gyaku-ESPY (Counter ESPY) D
- Jan Dickene as Secretary prime minister Baltonia
- Gunter Grave as Prime minister guards official Baltonia
- Robert Dunham as Captain special passenger plane
- Henry as Special passenger plane vice-captain
- Julie Club as Miki of boyhood
- Luna Takamura as Judy
- Kelly Vancis as Judy of girlhood
References
- ↑ "Authors : Komatsu Sakyō : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". Retrieved 2014-07-01.
External links
- ESPY at the Internet Movie Database