Crazy Monkey

Crazy Monkey (クレイジーモンキー) is a 1980 Japanese action comedy film directed by Toshiyuki Shimada. Produced by Hemu-Hemu Production and distributed by, the film stars , and  as its main cast.

Plot
Hirokazu Fujita is a youngster, living in a remote village with his grandfather, karate master Kazutoshi Sakanoue. Fujita does not take his training seriously enough, he gambles, and he gets into fights which lead him to display the skills his grandfather has told him he must keep secret.

Fujita briefly finds employment selling coffins, working for an unscrupulous proprietor, who even stoops to selling second-hand coffins. Fujita is fired when he accidentally traps his boss in one of the coffins. After making his escape, he runs into three thugs he'd beaten up earlier, who ask him to teach them karate.

Fujita meets his shifu, Kiyoshi Nakajima, the unskilled leader of the Everything Clan. Nakajima offers Fujita a lucrative job training his students and fighting against the top fighters from rival schools. This boosts the reputation of the school and of the scheming Nakajima. However, Fujita makes the mistake of naming the school under the Fukuoka clan name.

The situation comes to the attention of evil karate master Yoshiaki Uemura, who finds and kills Fujita's grandfather. But, Fujita eventually takes revenge for his grandfather's murder after undergoing rigorous training from Kenji Tsutsumi.

Cast

 * as Hirokazu Fujita
 * as Kazutoshi Sakanoue
 * as Yoshiaki Uemura
 * as Kiyoshi Nakajima
 * as Kenji Tsutsumi

Release
Crazy Monkey was released in Japanese theaters by Nikkatsu on May 29, 1980, to generally positive reviews.

Legacy
The animated opening sequence, which was animated by at  (now Sanrio), has an animation style similar to that of 's. It eventually became an internet meme on May 21, 2006.