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Black Lizard (1968)
黒蜥蜴
A detective tries to outwit an art loving thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.
🏳️🌈 Kinji Fukasaku's hyper-stylized adaptation features cross-dressed icon Akihiro Miwa as a lethal master thief, layering her bizarre visual performance coven with heavy, campy sáfic subtext.
Cast

Akihiro Miwa Black Lizard (Mrs. Midorikawa)

Isao Kimura Kogoro Akechi / Matsukichi

Jun Usami Shobei Iwase

Toshiko Kobayashi Hina
Mitsuko Takara Show dancer
Tetsuji Hattori Toyama

Kyōichi Satō Ôkawa
Ryuji Funahashi Kozu

Sōnosuke Oda Harada

Tadayuki Okamoto
Isamu Shimizu
Yoshio Naka
Tsuyuta Shimizu
Ryûsuke Kita
Jun Kashima Sakai
Ryokutarō Hanai
Toshiyuki Watanabe
Teruko Higa
Midori Kashiwagi
Keiko Shirakawa
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