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The Important Cinema Club

#450 - Japan's Crazy Cats!

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7575 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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We dicuss the Japanese comedy group THE CRAZY CATS - and talk about their films BIG EXPLOSION, MEXICAN FREE-FOR-ALl and MONSIEUR ZIVACO. Join the Patreon now for an exclusive episode every week, access to our entire Patreon Episode back catalogue, your name read out on the next episode, and the friendly Discord chat: patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub Send us stuff like zines, movie-related books, physical media or memorabilia c/o Justin Decloux, Unit 1010, 3230 Yonge St, Toronto, ON, M4N 3P6, Canada. Subscribe, Review and Rate Us on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…ub/id1067435576 Follow the Podcast: twitter.com/ImprtCinemaClub Follow Will: twitter.com/WillSloanESQ Follow Justin: twitter.com/DeclouxJ Check out Justin's other podcasts, THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast), THE VERY FINE COMIC BOOK PODCAST (www.theveryfinecomicbookpodcast.com) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie), as Will's MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, my name is Justin the Clue.

0:06.4

I'm here today with Will Sloan.

0:07.9

And you're listening to the important.

0:09.8

What was that little head shake that you just,

0:11.7

out of the corner of my eye,

0:13.0

I saw Will, like, he like put his head to the side.

0:15.4

He went, Will Sloan?

0:16.3

That was me getting into character, folks,

0:18.0

because it is the important cinema club podcast.

0:20.1

And we are rounding out. nothing but last November worldwide.

0:25.1

And I realize it's December now.

0:26.9

We're not great at math.

0:28.4

Nope.

0:28.8

But that's fine.

0:30.0

This is the fourth of four episodes in a row where we've discussed comic actors,

0:34.5

comedians, laugh getters, shenan doers, shenan doers, who were very popular in their home country,

0:41.6

were possibly very popular at other parts of the world, but never crossed over into North America.

0:47.3

Now, popularity-wise, because the crazy cats, who we're talking about today, did have one of their

0:53.8

films kind of sneak

0:55.5

into North America under a very weird English title that we can get to. But that was pretty

1:02.0

much it. So in previous episodes, we've talked about Raj Kapoor. We've talked about Terrence

1:07.2

Hill and Bud Spencer. We talked about the Korean gentleman who made The Last Godfather, whose name I've

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