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Tokyo Rose (1946)
Character: Soon Hee
Lotus Long plays the title role, an American-educated Japanese woman broadcasting enemy propaganda to American troops. Captured GI Pete Sherman 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 deejay on her own petard. Managing to make his escape, Sherman hooks up with the Japanese Underground, convincing anti-militarist Charlie Otani to aid in a kidnapping plot aimed at Tokyo Rose.
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Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)
Character: Mama Chan (uncredited)
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
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Burma Convoy (1941)
Character: Mrs. Wong Lee (uncredited)
A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.
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South Sea Woman (1953)
Character: Mama Ching
Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify or plead guilty or not guilty to the charges. Showgirl Ginger Martin takes the stand against his protest. She testifies O'Hearn won't talk because he is protecting the name of his pal, Marine Private Davey White. Ginger tells how she, broke and stranded, met the two marines in Shanghai two weeks before Pearl Harbor.
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The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)
Character: Woman in Dress Shop
After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the family plantation in a cockfight, Chester saves the day by towing in a large ship abandoned at sea and claiming the salvage. But opening a joint bank account in the name of the Tuttle clan may not have been a wise decision.
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Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)
Character: Chinese Woman
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.
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Betrayal from the East (1945)
Character: Restaurant Fortune Teller
A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
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The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Character: Chinese Woman (uncredited)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
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King of Chinatown (1939)
Character: Chinese Woman (uncredited)
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
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Blood on the Sun (1945)
Character: Amah
Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda of the time.
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Escape from Hong Kong (1942)
Character: Newspaper Vendor
Three American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Harbor.
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Pacific Rendezvous (1942)
Character: Japanese Woman
A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.
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Passport to Suez (1943)
Character: Chinese Lady at Nightclub
The Lone Wolf goes undercover in Egypt to foil a Nazi plot to bomb and disable the Suez canal, which is vital to England's war effort.
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