Kurima

Division of Chemistry for Materials, Graduate School of Engineering, Mie University, 1577 Kurima-Machiya-cho, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan... 

Kurima Kobayashi and Satoshi Hirosawa, Permanent magnets 515... 

Kurima K, Peters LM, Yang Y et al 2002 Dominant and recessive deafness caused by mutations of a novel gene, TMCl, required for cochlear hair-cell function. Nat Genet 30 277-284... 

Kurima K, Yang Y, Sorber K, Griffith AJ 2003 Characterization of the transmembrane channellike (TMC) gene family functional clues from hearing loss and epidermodysplasia verruciformis. Genomics 82 300-308... 

Kurima asks Kitami to be his bodyguard for a proposed trip to Japan to solicit bids for a dam project, but Kitami refuses, saying that he and Kurima are not the same color. This is superficially a racial comment, and intended to be recognized as such, but it also has the nuance that Kitami does not approve of Kurima s bloodthirstiiKSS, or even, by extension, that Japanese are not bloodthirsty. 

Kitami reports this incident, in French, to the headquarters of the International Secret Police in Paris, using a hidden radio set much like Strangway s in Dr. No. He is ordered to investigate. When he returns to the ministry to take the offer of a job, he is surprised to discover that Kurima speaks excellent Japanese, having learned it, he says, as a collaborator with the Japanese during World War 11. In the war of liberation that followed the end of the war, he had earned the nickname Tiger Fang for his ruthlessness. 

The mystery woman is revealed to be an iimocent dupe of the underworld gang, acting as a messenger/delivery girl in order to get cash to help her fiance open his own clinic. She objects angrily when Kitami suggests that she had spent the night with Kurima. 

In a voice-over coda, Kitami says that as long as there is war in this world, people like Kurima will appear. Over footage of all the affected people of Ae plot, who seem to be waiting for Kitami, he says, Only I know my comings and goings. ... 

The villainous Axis has much more in common with SPECTRE than the war-crazed Kurima. They employ assassins with cartoonish traits. One is knife thrower, one an acrobat with a whip, one a woman who seduces men and knocks them out with a drag she administers by kissing. These may be extreme and cartoonish, but they are not so far from the chess genius or Grant of From Russia. This greater theatricality shows that after only two Bond movies, the concept was becoming easy to parody, if not imitate. 

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