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The movie's great, the music's wrong, I mean, the music including the main title is too jazzy and light for a Dirty Harry movie. Jerry Fielding is a great composer and had done many good movie and television music, but his style doesn't fit for the Dirty Harry film franchise. This movie, I believe, would had had much better reception if the film score had been done by Lalo Schifrin as the other four films. The film score makes this movie feel unrelated and unnatural to the DH franchise, and feels like watching a different Clint Eastwood action flick. The movie itself was second best other than the first Dirty Harry. Tyne Daly was wonderful, and had good chemistry with Clint Eastwood, though Mr. Eastwood seemed to be a little shoulder relaxed as Harry Callahan compared to the previous films. But this movie has some of the best hard blow quotes by Harry, especially towards Captain McKay.

The title "Anata gonomi no" is based on the lyrics of a song sung by Chiyo Okumura titled "Koi no dorei" (Slave of Love) that was popular in the same year that this movie was released, in 1969. Okumura had a small part and also sings this song in this movie. The meaning is something like "as you like".

I saw this movie a few years ago as a late night movie on TV. The movie stars Mari Atsumi who was regarded as one of the first "porno" actress in Japan, but what she shows in this movie is less than what teen idols show on TV today. The movie is a very light comedy about a rich grandma (Chouko Iida), her lascivious son (Junzaburo Ban), and a misogynistic grandson (Keizo Kawasaki) buying off a bride school, and their involvement with the pretty clerk who works at the school (Mari Atsumi). There is not much more to the story, but it was fun to see the above mentioned actors and comedians whom were popular then, and they were funnier than I had expected. The movie was nostalgic for me.

The below the average character that Seth Rogen impersonates is disappointing for those who expects the original Britt Reid character, but fits this movie.

Cameron Diaz doesn't even show effort to act, but she is good as herself, and lightens up the movie.

Jay Chou as Kato is excellent, and saves this movie.

But the true savior of this movie is by the splendid (well, maybe not that much considering his ability) and effortless acting of Christoph Waltz for his accurate portrayal of Chudnofsky. There were a lot of good movies that would have been better if the villain was played by a skilled actor. The Green Hornet is an average movie but was fun because the villain's character was evil yet funny and interesting.

I saw this movie in both the original English and the Japanese dubbed version. As for this movie only, the Japanese version was better, which never was the case for all movies that I had seen. The original English dialogs were a little too violent and annoying, however the "Japanese dub-over artists" were very skilled to make this movie fun.

Finally, the true main character of this movie is the Black Beauty(s). They were beautiful! I read an article about the making of this movie that 29 Imperials, model years '65 and '66 were used、and only 3 are left in shape. The movie showed great action using the cars, but still, mottainai!!