Black Lizard (film)
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Country Japan | 7/10 Genre Comedy, Crime, Fantasy Screenplay Masashige Narusawa Duration Language Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast (Black Lizard (as Akihiro Maruyama)), (Detective Akechi), (Sanaye), Junya Usami (Shobei Iwasa), Yûsuke Kawazu (Junichi Amamiya)Release date 1968 Similar movies Mad Max: Fury Road , Let's Be Cops , Memories of Murder , Untraceable , John Wick , Salt |
Black Lizard (黒蜥蝪 Kurotokage) is a 1968 Japanese detective film directed by Kinji Fukasaku.
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The film is based on a 1934 novel by Edogawa Rampo and its theatrical adaptation by Yukio Mishima, who, at the time, was the lover of Akihiro Maruyama, the actor who plays the notorious female criminal "Black Lizard" in drag.
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The film's protagonist is Kogoro Akechi, a brilliant detective patterned on Sherlock Holmes who appears in several stories by Edogawa Rampo and is a fixture in Japanese popular culture.
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The film currently has no official DVD release, and copies of the film are extremely difficult to find, but it has gained a cult following and is highly regarded by devotees of "kitsch" and "campy" films.
![Black Lizard (film) The fabulous Akihiro Miwa aka Akihiro Maruyama as Black Lizard](https://alchetron.com/cdn/black-lizard-film-7854527b-92b0-4bb4-996e-a7fcec26c41-resize-750.jpg)
The novel Black Lizard has been published in English by Kurodahan Press in a dual edition with The Beast in the Shadow (a.k.a. Inju) [1].
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Black lizard 1968
Cast
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References
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