Word: hayakawas
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...thoroughly deglamorizes Claudette Colbert in the leading role, and takes pains to recreate authentic Japanese prison compounds against jungle backgrounds filmed in Borneo. It shows considerable restraint in its treatment of Japanese soldiers; there is even a sympathetic Japanese colonel feelingly played by the silent screen's Sessue Hayakawa...
...torch-singing of a Tin Pan Alley tune) to make it a caricature of a Bogart film. Wearing his old trench coat and mouthing a cigarette. Bogart returns to Tokyo after the war to start a small freight airline backed by a blank-faced racketeer (oldtime silent Cinemactor Sessue Hayakawa). By the time the comic-book plot has run its course, Bogart has saved his ex-wife (Florence Marly) from exposure as a Tokyo Rose, stopped the infiltration of war criminals, and rescued his small daughter from Hayakawa...
...HAYAKAWA Editor...
...Fumi Hayakawa," probably an Hawaiian or an Hawaiian-educated Japanese. She is not easily understood...
Said Director Stevens: "In these times the only actor that I would like to direct is Sessue Hayakawa. . . . Some of you old-time moviegoers remember him. . . . Well Sessue, if this gets to you in Tokyo . . . here's an offer for you. Slip into the mouse-green uniform of a Jap general and some fine sundown when we get over there we'll take a shot of you climbing up to that high point on the island of Corregidor where the flagpole stands . . . and from the top of that shell-scarred mast you'll pull down your meatball...