Secret Agent of Japan
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Secret Agent of Japan is the first American anti-Japanese war film produced by a major studio after the attack on Pearl Harbor
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941...

. It stars Preston Foster
Preston Foster
Preston Foster was an American stage and film actor, and singer. Foster entered films in 1929 after appearing as a Broadway stage actor. He was appearing in Broadway plays as late as October 1931 when he acted in a play titled Two Seconds starring Edward J. Pawley...

 as a nightclub owner in Shanghai who becomes involved in espionage revolving around preparations for the infamous sneak attack.

Cast

  • Preston Foster as James Carmichael, alias Roy Bonnell
  • Lynn Bari
    Lynn Bari
    Lynn Bari , born Margaret Schuyler Fisher, was a movie actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in over one hundred 20th Century Fox films from the early 1930s through the 1940s.-Career:Bari was born in Roanoke, Virginia...

     as Kay Murdock
  • Noel Madison
    Noel Madison
    Noel Madison was an American character actor in the 1930s and '40s and appeared in 75 films, often as a gangster.-Partial filmography:*Sinners' Holiday *Little Caesar *Play-Girl...

     as Isoda Saito
  • Victor Sen Yung
    Victor Sen Yung
    Victor Sen Yung was an American character actor. He was given billing under a variety of names, including Sen Yung, Sen Young, Victor Sen Young, and Victor Young.- Career :...

     as Fu Yen
  • Janis Carter
    Janis Carter
    Janis Carter was a film and television actress working in the 1940s and 1950s.After attending Mather College in Cleveland, Ohio, Carter headed to New York in an attempt to start an opera career. Although unsuccessful in opera, she was working on Broadway where she was spotted on stage by Darryl F...

     as Doris Poole
  • Steven Geray
    Steven Geray
    Steven Geray, born Istvan Gyergyay on November 10, 1904 and died aged 69 on December 26, 1973 in Los Angeles, California. He was a film actor who appeared in over 100 films and dozens of television programs...

     as Mulhauser, alias Constantin Alexandri
  • Kurt Katch
    Kurt Katch
    Kurt Katch was a Polish film and television actor. Katch was born as Isser Kac. He appeared in Quiet Please, Murder, The Mask of Dimitrios, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and several of the James Bond series movies, among many others. Katch is interred at Eden Memorial Park Cemetery in Los...

     as Traeger
  • Addison Richards
    Addison Richards
    Addison Richards was an American film actor. He appeared in over 300 films between 1933 and 1964. He died from a heart attack...

     as Detective Remsen
  • Ian Wolfe
    Ian Wolfe
    Ian Wolfe was an American actor whose films date from 1934 to 1990. Until 1934, he worked as a theatre actor. Wolfe mostly found work as a character actor, appearing in over 270 films...

     as Capt. Karl Larsen
  • Hermine Sterler as Frau Mulhauser
  • Selmer Jackson as American Naval Captain
  • Frank Puglia
    Frank Puglia
    Frank Puglia was an Italian film actor. Puglia had small but memorable roles in films including Casablanca and 1942's The Jungle Book. Born in Sicily, the actor started his career as a teen on stage in Italian operas. He emigrated to the U.S...

     as Victor Eminescu
  • Leyland Hodgson as English Secret Service
  • Leslie Denison as English Secret Service
  • Jean Del Val
    Jean Del Val
    Jean Del Val was a French-born actor. He has also been credited as Jean Gauthier and Jean Gautier.He has played roles during the Hollywood silent era, beginning with The Fortunes of Fifi in 1917...

     as Pierre Solaire

Critical reception

The New York Times reviewer panned the film, calling it "a very mild hate-brew" and "third-rate drama", and stating, "Nowadays, we doubt whether anybody, even Hirohito, will be much excited".
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