The movie starts off with Ryotsu (with Honda as his patsy) hatching another crackpot scam with a fake UFO sighting (via fake crop circles and a wire-hanging UFO). But the plan fails per usual, with the Kameari Park Police Box which results in Ohara punishes Ryotsu by subtracting him from the station's group vacation to Hawaii the following day.
Writing
Ryotsu's scams escalate so hard they loop back to genius.
Practical Effects
Wire-hanging UFO gag—low-tech chaos at its finest.
Acting
LaSalle Ishii's voice work sells every deranged scheme.
Director
Shinji Takamatsu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
KochiKame ran 40 years as a manga—this 2003 film captures peak 'lost decade' Japan, where salaryman frustration met absurdist escape.
The UFO crop circle gag parodies 2002's real Nagano sightings that dominated Japanese news—Ryotsu's fake was funnier than the hoax.
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