Asia-pol
Asian Cinema
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Classics, Drama, Crime, Thriller
It’s not Interpol, it's Asia-pol, a law enforcement agency somewhere between the police and Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jimmy Wang Yu (One-Armed Swordsman) stars in his first major modern day role as a down and dirty secret agent battling against homicidal Japanese gold smugglers amidst femme fatales, damsels-in-distress and erotic strip tease artists in this spy-themed Shaw Brothers classic.
DIRECTED BY AKINORI MATSUO
JAPAN | 1966 | JAPANESE LANGUAGE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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