Little Tokyo, U.S.A.
Little Tokyo, U.S.A. is a 1942 American film, produced during World War II widely considered at its release and now as a piece of antiJapanese propaganda.
The story gradually reveals that the crimes are to cover up a Japanese American cabals efforts to facilitate Japans bombing of Pearl Harbor. After the horrific military attack, the Japanese American communitys demonstrations of proU.S. patriotism are portrayed as patently insincere. Policeman Steele tracks the crime trail to an Americanborn spy for Tokyo, Takimura played in yellowface by Harold Huber. Takimura tries to throw Steele off the case by enlisting a neighborhood vixen, Teru cast with June Duprez to seduce him.Teru invites Mike to Satsumas house, where she drugs him. As Mike sleeps, Hendricks and Takimura kill Teru and make it look as if Mike murdered her while trying to assault her. Mike is arrested for the murder, and the next morning, is in prison when he learns of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Mike then escapes from jail and soon discovers where Takimura, Hendricks and the others meet. With Maris help, Mike tricks the spies into revealing their activities while the police listen, and soon the gang is rounded up. After Japanese Americans on the West Coast are taken to internment camps, Little Tokyo becomes a ghost town. ........
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