Kidskycom
It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.
ChampDavSlim
The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
Lollivan
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Uriah43
"Daisuke Hondo" (Akira Kobayashi) is a professional photographer who is on his way back to Tokyo after a brief assignment in South Vietnam. On the flight there he meets a young stewardess named "Yoriko Sawanouchi" (Chieko Matsubara) and promptly asks her out on a date. She agrees and they go to a bar downtown. While dancing she notices a man who has been following her which results in Hondo going over to have a word with him. However, when he gets back to the table he finds that she is gone. This prompts Hondo to look for him and when he goes outside he notices three women clothed in black attacking the man who had been following Yoriko. Upon quickly killing the stalker, the three women then proceed to kidnap Yoriko and subsequently leaving Hondo to be interrogated by the police. As it turns out, the man who was beaten and killed was a member of the Yakuza and they want information which they believe Yoriko has. Likewise, the women are members of a female ninja organization who also want this same information. Since he realizes that both sides mean business Hondo knows he has to act fast if he is to somehow save Yoriko before it is too late. Now rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this particular movie was quite similar in style to the popular James Bond films of the time but with a smaller budget and a definite Japanese flavor. I especially liked the artistic manner in which the director (Yasuharu Hasebe) used color to amplify certain scenes along with certain elements of humor throughout the course of the movie as well. Having said that, I thought that this was a fairly decent film and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.
zetes
Hasebe's debut feature could definitely pass for a crazy '60s films from his mentor, Seijun Suzuki. It's a colorful spy spoof about a couple (Akira Kobayashi and Chieko Matsubara, who starred in Tokyo Drifter) who are caught between several groups, Americans, yakuza and lady ninjas, searching for lost WWII era gold that Matsubara's father is rumored to have hidden. It's the lady ninjas who give the film its American title (the Japanese title translates to "Don't Touch Me, I'm Dangerous"): dressed in black tights, they fight with razor sharp tape measurer swords, chewing gum bullets and 45 rpm records, used as ninja stars. The use of color is amazing and will definitely recall Tokyo Drifter. Released on DVD in the US in 2000 by Image, the disc is pretty terrible, with hardcoded and often misspelled subtitles which often disappear when anything white appears on screen. This probably accounts for why the story is difficult to follow at times, but this is the kind of movie you watch more for the image anyway. I'd kill to see this on a nice Blu Ray. Highly recommended.
gridoon2018
"Black Tight Killers" is a sometimes visually arresting movie, with a stylized use of color and a collection of pretty hot Japanese women making up the title bunch (one of the undisputed highlights of the film is the scene where one of them kills a man by squeezing his head between her legs while making faux-orgasmic sounds! - sadly, she is killed off only a couple of minutes later), but the story, about the search for a missing cache of gold, is meandering, uncompelling and frequently even boring. Ultimately, "Black Tight Killers" doesn't quite work, either as a serious action-spy adventure, or as a campy parody of the genre. ** out of 4.
Theatre_Guy
The "Black Tight Killers" are a group of go-go dancing ninja women who use 45 rpm records and bubble gum as weapons. The central character is a war photographer who meets an airline stewardess and unknowingly enters into an adventure for money smuggled into the country by her father at the close of WWII. The money is pursued by Japanese yakuza, American gangsters and the title five with spirited action that very nicely reflects the colors and pop art flavor of the day. All is played with a tongue in cheek style that nicely parodies the spy adventure films of the time. Enjoy the fun. Supposedly also known as "Don't Touch Me, I'm Dangerous."
