

Paper Tiger
They saw him as a hero....but could he live up to it?
A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes.
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- Language
- English
- japan
- ransom
- tutor
- veteran
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United StatesUS
- Theatrical5 Nov 1975
JapanJP
- Theatrical1 May 1976
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Paper Tiger was released on 5 November 1975.
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CinemaSerf
11/19/2024
David Niven is the epitome of the retired English soldier "Major Bradbury" in this gently comedic thriller. He is hired to tutor the young son of the Japanese Ambassador (Toshirô Mifune) to another, somewhat less democratic nation. When he and the young boy "Koichi" (Ando) are kidnapped and held to ransom by some local freedom fighters, it soon transpires that "Maj. Bradbury" may have been exaggerating his credential…
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