Koroshi

TV Movie
1968
1h 44m

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Secret agent John Drake (aka Danger Man) goes to Japan to infiltrate a secret society that specializes in murder.Secret agent John Drake (aka Danger Man) goes to Japan to infiltrate a secret society that specializes in murder.Secret agent John Drake (aka Danger Man) goes to Japan to infiltrate a secret society that specializes in murder.

Directors
- Michael Truman
- Peter Yates
Writers
- Norman Hudis
- Ralph Smart
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6.2/10

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Directors
- Michael Truman
- Peter Yates
Writers
- Norman Hudis
- Ralph Smart
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Koroshi (1966) had the same plot of You Only Live Twice (1967)

When I saw this two part episode of secret agent John Drake, I was amazed. It was in color and besides the cool and inteligent British secret agent was running and fighting like he never did before. I enjoyed this T.V. show. Then one or two years later the film You Only Live Twice was released in Mexico city and I was there the very first day. I`m a James Bond fan and I wouldn`t miss a 007 movie for anything in the world, but as I was watching the movie I had a surprise, the plot was very much alike that John Drake episode I have seen years before. The Japaneses, the island, the secret base, a character named Tanaka... What happened here? Is it possible that a James Bond film has taken the same idea from a good T.V. show? Who stole who? Can anyone make it clear to me?

UNCLE-15
Sep 6, 2001
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Trivia
The actress who plays the woman who is killed at the start of the film reappears in a completely different role - an enemy operative - in the second half of the film.

Goofs
When Drake visits the policeman Commander Yamada in his Tokyo office, Yamada has a map of Tokyo Bay behind him written in English. A real police office in Tokyo would have had a Japanese, or at least bilingual map.

Alternate versions
This film was originally conceived as part of the fourth season of "Secret Agent". However, this was the first episode of the season and Patrick McGoohan quit shortly after filming it. Thus it was decided to package a double-episode from a TV show as a full-length movie. Patrick McGoohan quit "Secret Agent" to create "The Prisoner".