Main Cast: Lotus Long, Byron Barr, Osa Massen, Donald Douglas, Richard Loo
Release Year: 1945
Country: US
Run Time: 120 minutes
Plot
Tokyo Rose is a standard wartime melodrama with the slight advantage of topicality. Lotus Long plays the title role, an American-educated Japanese woman broadcasting enemy propaganda to American troops. Captured GI Pete Sherman (Byron Barr) is one of a group of POWS slated to be interviewed on Tokyo Rose's radio program. Instead of advising his comrades to surrender (as ordered), Sherman uses his innate Yankee knowhow to hoist the treacherous oriental deejay on her own petard. Managing to make his escape, Sherman hooks up with the Japanese Underground, convincing anti-militarist Charlie Otani (Keye Luke) to aid in a kidnapping plot aimed at Tokyo Rose. This story wasn't any more believable when it was done on TV's Hogan's Heroes. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Keye Luke - Charlie Otani; Grace Lem - Soon Hee; Leslie Fong - Wong; H.T. Tsiang - Caung Yu; Larry Young - Jack Martin; William Challee - Mike Koyak; Chris Drake - Frank; Albert Ruiz - Mel; Blake Edwards - Joe; James Millican - Al Wilson; Gig Young - Pete Sherman
Credit
F. Paul Sylos - Art Director, Lew Landers - Director, Henry Adams - Editor, Howard A. Smith - Editor, Rudy Schrager - Composer (Music Score), Fred Jackman, Jr. - Cinematographer, William Pine - Producer, William C. Thomas - Producer, Glenn Thompson - Set Designer, Daniel Mainwaring - Screenwriter, Maxwell Shane - Screenwriter
