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Produceder Bruce Lansbury
Executive Producer: Bruce Geller
Producer: Bruce Lansburry
Music Theme by: Lalo Shifrin
Written by: Sheldon Stark
Dir.: Gerald Mayer

Jim Phelps: Peter Graves
Paris: Leonard Nimoy
Dana Lambert: Lesley (Ann) Warren
Barney Collier: Greg Morris
Willy Armitage: Peter Lupus

Toshio Masaki: Khigh Dhiegh
Inspector Akita: Benson Fong
Mioshi Kellem: Lisa Lu
Harry Kellem: Russ Conway

 

An American businessman, Harry Kellem, is framed for the murder of his wife. The murderer, Toshio Masaki, is Mrs. Kellem's brother, an anti-American and tries to hinder the work of the Economic Treaty Council, where Kellem was chairman. He has arranged that Kellem is found near the body and that his fingerprints are on the murder weapon. 

Being interested in Kabuki art, Masaki welcomes Paris, a Japanese artist, well known for Kabuki art, on his estate. Paris perfomes a Kabuki dance "to perfection" and stays a while as a guest. Barney hides on a roof and prepare everything for filming the garden while Dana disguises as Mrs. Kellem. To distract Masaki Willy challanges a jujitsu fighter. Masaki, who knows that his bodyguard, Osaki, is the best, does not want to miss the opportunity to show an American fighter the superiority of the Japanese, watches the fight. 

Willy has to sustain for some time in great pain until Barney has finished shooting the film with Dana as Mrs. Kellem and Paris disguised as Masaki reshooting the killing in the garden. Masaki confesses the deed and Mr. Kellem is declared innocent.