I have to admit that I only found out about this song just earlier today. But as soon as I saw the title "Spy Dai Sakusen" which is the official Japanese title for the original American TV series "Mission Impossible", I knew that I had to investigate, since I remain a big fan of its first few seasons in the 1960s.
For one thing, what was I going to hear in Reiko Kato's（かとうれいこ）"Spy Dai Sakusen"? A moody City Pop tune or a really jazzy number along the themes for James Bond? Neither as it turns out. First off, "Spy Dai Sakusen" is a track on Kato's January 1995 album "Reiko" and it was created by lyricist Masami Tozawa（戸沢暢美）, composer Mayumi Horikawa（堀川まゆみ）and arranger Yuji Toriyama（鳥山雄司）. It actually sounds like an upbeat whimsical pop song which probably has so-called "combatants" in the spy adventure of love.
In Kato's J-Wiki article, there is indeed a note about this particular song and that the songwriters were all well aware of the title's significance but that's about it. As it is, Kato's "Spy Dai Sakusen" sounds as if it could have made for a theme song for a show of a totally different stripe instead of Bruce Geller's iconic series of adventure and intrigue.
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