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Advantages: hilariously funny, extremely silly, original idea, a real one-off Disadvantages: not to everyone's taste - some people are bound to not find it funny
Starring:
Tatsuya Miyashi as 'Phil Moscowitz'
Akiko Wakabayashi as 'Suki Yaki'
Mie Hama as 'Teri Yaki'
Tadao Nakamuru as 'Shepherd Wong'
Woody Allen as Himself
This film is really one of life's oddities! It's a one-off bizarreness fest by a young Woody Allen in his 1966 directorial debut, following his first film effort 'What's New, Pussycat?' in 1965 for which he wrote the screenplay.
He obtained the rights to a 1965 Japanese spy film called 'Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi' or 'International Secret Police: Key of Keys', and decided (as one does) to completely wipe the soundtrack and replace it with an entirely different one of his own making. So, this does not mean that he had English-speaking voice actors provide faithful translations of the original Japanese dialogue - it means he re-wrote the whole script and had voice ...
Advantages: Mazda Factory tour, Centrally located Baseball stadium and sights & incredible Miyajima daytrip. Disadvantages: Expensive of accomodation!
the most useful mode of transport in the city and you will probably want to near that. Anything near the station would be well placed, or in the centre of town. Plucking a name from my Lonely Planet, the Hotel Kokusai looks very well positioned indeed. When my parents came they stayed next to the railway station in the New Hiroden and this was reasonably priced, though certainly not budjet, and also well positioned. The Hiroshima Youth Hostel, as the Lonely Planet points out, is in a rather inconvient location, about 2km north of town. If you could stretch to about 4000 Yen you could get a better hotel nearer the centre of town and probably have a much better time - certainly you'd see more.
For food start at the A-Bomb dome or baseball stadium and head east along the main road and tram line. Any of the streets off to the side of this ...
Hmatt 28.08.2002 (11.09.2002)
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