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Esupai

Esupai (1974) Movie Poster
Japan  •    •  94m  •    •  Directed by: Jun Fukuda.  •  Starring: Hiroshi Fujioka, Kaoru Yumi, Masao Kusakari, Yûzô Kayama, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Katsumasa Uchida, Steve Green, Eiji Okada, Gorô Mutsumi, Jimmy Shaw, Chico Roland, Annest Harness, Andrew Hughes.  •  Music by: Masaaki Hirao.
       Interpol has nothing on ESPY, an elite international law-enforcement agency. Its members have supernormal powers, including telepathy and clairvoyance. Discerning a pattern to the series of political assassinations which have rocked the world, ESPY dispatches its best agents to Istanbul, to counter the efforts of an anti-ESPY organization, masterminded by Ulrov (who has super-powers himself), before the Prime Minister of Baltonia is killed. The combined force of the battling telepaths causes natural disturbances around the world including earthquakes and auroras.

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I saw this one recently. It is no worse than other Japanese science fiction that I saw in the sixties and seventies. I saw the version with subtitles so I can explain about the black man with the white hospital mask. The one woman in ESPY gets molested by this black man. We get to see her bare breasts, but only briefly, and he tries to force a kiss on her. In retaliation she uses her psychic power to rip the tongue out of his mouth. Afterwards he wears the white surgical mask. The probably left out a key scene in the dubbed version.

The movie does have some interesting locations. The story isn't bad, and the special effects are reasonably good. If you enjoyed movies from the same era, like Battle In Outer Space or Latitude Zero or Atragon you might enjoy this one too.


Review by nicestep
from the Internet Movie Database.

 

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Dec 11 2016, 12:18