The Crazy Adventure[2] (Japanese: 大冒険, Hepburn: Daibōken, lit.'Big Adventure or Great Adventure') is a 1965 Japanese comedy action film directed by Kengo Furusawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. It is the fifth film in the Crazy Cats film series produced from 1963 to 1971[3] and was produced to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the formation of the Crazy Cats group.

The Crazy Adventure
Japanese theatrical release poster
Directed byKengo Furusawa
Written byYasuo Tanami
Ryōzō Kasahara
Produced bySanezumi Fujimoto
Shin Watanabe
Starring
CinematographyTadashi Iimura
Fukuzo Koizumi
Edited byYoshitami Kuroiwa
Music byKenjiro Hirose
Production
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Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 31 October 1965 (1965-10-31) (Japan)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguagesJapanese
German
Box office¥420,000,000 (equivalent to ¥1,766,641,053 in 2019)[1]

The Crazy Adventure was released theatrically in Japan on October 31, 1965. It received a theatrical release in the United States on December 21, 1966 under the title Don't Call Me a Con Man and was re-released on June 1, 1993 under the title Don't Cal Me a Crime Man.

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The Crazy Adventure was released in Japan on October 31, 1965 where it was distributed by Toho. and received a theatrical release in the United States on December 21, 1966 as Don't Call Me a Con Man and was re-released on June 1, 1993 as Don't Cal Me a Crime Man.

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  1. ^ Ryfle, Steve; Godziszewski, Ed (2017). Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa. Wesleyan University Press. p. 218. ISBN 9780819570871.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Toho Special Effects Movie Complete Works. villagebooks. 28 September 2012. pp. 98, 99, 100–101. ISBN 978-4-864-91013-2.
  3. ^ 株式会社つみき. "映画『大冒険』の感想・レビュー[187件] | Filmarks". filmarks.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-04-20.
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