First Yank into Tokyo (1945)

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

A pure propaganda movie,with a screenplay so far-fetched that you will not find a touch of realism in this extravagant "mission".The mission which concerns a scientist prisoner of the Japanese is not particularly exciting;but the main interest is somewhere else ;the Steve and Abby reunion is the real meat of the story,it's pretty original.Steve and Abby (a nurse)became lovers in the war;her hospital was bombed and Steve thought she was dead;of course she is not,she is alive in the same camp as the scientist Jardine ;she cannot recognize her former love ,cause the American surgeons gave his face Japanese features (and it's irreversible).Steve cannot reveal his true identity and ,although Abby hates him and even wants to have him whip,she cannot help but wonder why ,when she looks at him,she's all in a fluster "his eyes! his eyes! " she says ;So the principal question becomes:WHEN will they really meet again?

This film is almost camp in its sophomoric racism. As a member of a minority that has also experienced this kind of dehumanization at a time when this was not at all uncommon I think that this movie has value as an example of what generations ..even my own daughter will never believe unless they see it. I think we all need these movies in their uncut form as a reminder (embarrassing though it is to the filmmakers) of how dumb we can get with these kinds of issues. I speak as a minority and as a fellow brother to all of you reading this. This is not shocking and the Japanese I am sure have the self confidence (as does my minority group) to point at this as a laughable example of white racism in its most childish form. It does not inspire hate for the whites who made it ...it inspires incredulity and empathy in me personally because it is truly embarrassing. I am sure it is the whites who would most like to eradicate this film and forget they (or the few who believed this) ever exhibited this kind of insipid point of view. It was an emotional time. Sometimes emotions make us say and think stupid things. This movie is an example.

I actually like seeing this movie BECAUSE it's so bad. I mean REAL bad! The movie was made just before the end of the war. The problem is, when release time came, the Japanese had the unmitigated nerve to surrender BEFORE the movie could be released. The producers scrambled and decided to change the movie to make it more timely. Gone was the original plot--now the espionage film was about an American soldier rescuing an atomic scientist from a Japanese prison camp! To do this, our hero is given extensive plastic surgery so he looks Japanese. Unfortunately, he ended up looking about as Japanese as Orson Welles, but this didn't seem to matter to the producers. Then, he infiltrated the camp only to find not only the scientist but the hero's fiancée!!! Later, he escaped with them both but just as they are about to enter the sub for safety, the Japs arrive!! The hero tells them to go--he will stay and cover their escape by sacrificing his life. Why did he do this? Well, according to him it was BETTER to die than be stuck with THIS face for the rest of his life--though I wondered WHY he didn't just get plastic surgery AGAIN?! The dummy should have thought of this! In addition to the rather insulting ending, the Japanese soldiers in the camp were usually portrayed as sex-crazed idiots! The only one who seemed civilized was the commandant, who initially treated the female lead with respect. Only later did you find out it was all an act!!! He was not about to take NO for an answer!!!! He told her that it had been an act and down deep ALL Japanese men are alike! So, this is a 100% non-politically correct and stupid film. Considering world events, it is understandable why the Japanese were portrayed in such a silly fashion--though this one goes beyond any other film of the era. A definite curiosity!!

What with the 1943 "Gung Ho", "Guadalcanal Diary," "Purple Heart,"and other made-during-World War II films I saw as a kid on television, I had thought I had seen every racist anti-"Jap" propaganda movie evermade by Hollywood. But "First Yank Into Tokyo" is one I do notremember seeing as a kid. It is not only the most racist movie I haveever seen, it is probably simply the worst film I have ever seen in anycategory of motion picture. To me as an American who has lived inJapan for 30 years, the Asian-Americans playing Japanese soldiers areas obviously not racially Japanese as if someone had made a movie aboutWilliam the Conqueror fighting the Battle of Hastings in 1066 with acast of Europeans recruited entirely from Athens, Greece and Instanbul,Turkey. Everything, from the physical characteristics to themannerisms, is wrong. On the one hand, the film presents the Japanese as bespeckled, bucktoothed, arrogant goofs. On the other hand, when portraying aJapanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film makes theplace a country club compared to the real horrors encountered by anyonewho was held in a Japanese POW camp during the war. Overall, the film radiates an overwhelming ignorance and apathy bythe film makers towards any authenticity whatsoever.