This is racist garbage. Avoid it.

Look at the depiction of other races in the films of that time, especially prior to then. Most films were like this. Also at the time, America was at war with Japan, so they're basically sticking it to them so to speak.

I actually quite enjoyed the film as I'm a James Cagney fan.



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"I've never seen a sight, that didn't look better lookin' back".

Yes it is racist. I particularly object to the main roles of Asian people being played by caucasian actors. But it's oversimplying matters to simple call it 'racist garbage'. Look at the context, this film was obviously supposed to be a war propaganda film.

You little uneducated fool...you do realize fascist Japan was bent on conquering and slaughtering as many Chinese and other Asians as they could during that time?

There were a lot of real angry Asian Americans who joined up to fight against Japan and won tons of military decorations. Read a history book for once in your life.

My votes:http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=9422378

This movie was certainly not "racist." Some of Japs were portrayed as good guys, some bad. Some of the Americans were pretty bad guys, too. The movie portrayed a love relationship between a Caucasian man and an Oriental woman. Why is having Occidental actors play Japanese or Chinese characters racist? American actors commonly play Germans, or Italians, French and otherwise, and nobody complains. Itallians make many movies with their race playing Americans, often in a very sterotyped way, which we just think is funny.

Little prigs who go around always accusing others of racism and other non-pc behavior and attitudes, are usually the most biased and misanthropic people of all. Politically correct is just another form of puritanism designed to tyranize and control others.

Back in the 1970's I had a black (that was the pc term then, not afroamerican) girl friend who would not date back guys. She said they were brutish and boring (even more so than the average man, she said). He favorite actor was Clark Gable, her favorite movie Gone With The Wind. I guess she was a racist.

The Japanese were certainly not discriminatory during WWII. One third of the prisoners of war they brutalized and murdered on the Bataan death march were Filipino. When American troops came back to retake the Phillipines after 3 years of Japanese occupation, the Filipinos cried in effect, "Level our cities with bombs if you have to! Just get rid of the Japs!" The Japanese killed an estimated 20 million Chinese orientals. They used our prisoners for germ warfare experiments. Few Japanese officers and officials were tried for war crimes as compared to those of the caucasian Germans. The victorious Allies did not break their country in the separate pieces as was done to Germany.

We should not buy their cameras and cars. But I have one, a Nissan pickup, and it is the best vehicle I have ever owned in 50 year of driving! Ha so!

He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good... St. Matthew 5:45

When a country is at war, you don't expect the enemy to be portrayed in a good light, do you? Please get real!

why is all this cry up about this movie? It is obviously a war propoganda movie many of which were ordered into production on US government and a very cooperative Hollywood. I am NOT saying that this is right to portray another person in a bad way just because they are of a different race. But to bash people in our past who did not have the understanding and knowledge that we have today is nievely short thoughtedness. You have to remember the restrictive and narrow view that almost everybody in every country of those times had grown up with. If you look at American isolationism, British territorialism, socialism in Russia, Nazism in Germany, fascism in Italy, Imperialism in Japan... As you can see all the major players of the 1930's preached to their own people of their own superiority over all others in the planet. In modern times we have come to understand that we are part of a global community and while there still exhists in small places parcels of bigotry, fascism and the like as a general rule the world population is now much more mature. But to judge those people of the past by our modern situation and understanding is at least irresponsible theatrics and a form of bigotry and grandiose on behalf of the writer of such drivel.

So, the Japanese raping 80,000 women and young girls in Nanjing in 6 weeks because they were considered "sub-human" isn't racist?

Forcing Korean women (and others) to be "Comfort Women" and service any Japanese soldier at any time because they were considered "sub-human" isn't racist?

Killing 6-8 MILLION Chinese during WWII because they "owned" China isn't racist?

You myopic view of what is "racist" is astounding.

Fucking Millenials.

..Joe