Keye Luke

A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.

KEYE LUKE is a short film bio-pic about pioneering Actor and Artist Keye Luke, the first, original on-screen Kato in the 1940s Green Hornet decades before Bruce Lee and also the All-American "Number One Son" in the popular Charlie Chan films of the 1930s.

Casada con un marido rico que la minusvalora, Alice lleva una vida vacía y cómoda que transcurre entre boutiques exclusivas, masajistas y cotilleos de peluquería. Le gustaría dedicarse a escribir y conocer mejor a un hombre con el que ha coincidido en la guardería de sus hijos, pero su educación conservadora se lo impide. Un brujo de Chinatown le facilitará el camino con una serie de hierbas mágicas de sorprendentes efectos.

Tras la muerte de su cuidador, un simpático Gremlin es llevado a un laboratorio donde se encuentra con su antiguo dueño. Debido a un despiste, el animalillo se moja, multiplicándose en temibles duendecillos que se apoderarán del rascacielos más moderno de Nueva York.

La vida es fácil en el Caribe, pero es dura para el jefe de policía Xavier Quinn. Apodado "El poderoso Quinn" por los sarcásticos isleños y con su mujer reprochándole que no se ocupa lo suficiente de su familia, se ve arrojado a la acción cuando Maubee, su amigo de la infancia, es acusado de asesinato.

Roger Mortis y Doug Bigelow son dos detectives de Los Angeles que investigan a una banda de violentos atracadores que parecen invencibles. Roger muere en acto de servicio, pero a través de una revolucionaria tecnología, consigue resucitar obteniendo unas 24 horas para dar con su asesino.

Dos ladronzuelos intentan amañar una carrera de caballos en un hipódromo donde se está rodando una película. Uno de los actores, al tiempo que planea apoderarse del dinero de las carreras tiene un romance con la novia de un gángster que también está involucrado en el asunto. (FILMAFFINITY)

Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss and desire. Quoting from Bunuel, Freud, pop media and art, they place the symbology of Western psychosexual analytical theory into a cross-cultural context, juxtaposing the Oedipal and Kappa myths in a delirious collusion of form and content. The Kappa, a malevolent Japanese water imp, is played with eerie intensity by artist Mike Kelley; actress Mary Woronov plays Jocasta as a vamp from a Hollywood exploitation film. Steeped in perversions and violent longings, both the Kappa and Oedipus legends are presented in highly stylized, purposefully "degraded" forms, reflecting their media-exploitative cultural contexts. In this ironic yet oddly poignant essay of psychosexual compulsion and catharsis, the Yonemotos demonstrate that even in debased forms, cultural archetypes hold the power to move and manipulate.

Kwai Chang Caine se encuentra con el padre del hombre que mató en China, que ahora busca venganza utilizando para ello al hijo ilegítimo de Caine.

Joe Blade is an unclaimed TV pilot film. An American, Blade works in Hong Kong, the home of his adoptive father Chang Chin-tzu. When Chang Chin-tzu is killed and a wealthy man is kidnapped, Blade springs into action.

Rand es un viajante que un día regala a su hijo Billy una tierna y extraña criatura, un mogwai. El inocente regalo, sin embargo, será el origen de toda una ola de gamberradas y fechorías en un pequeño pueblo de Estados Unidos. Todo empieza cuando son infringidas, una tras otra, las tres reglas básicas que deben seguirse para cuidar a un mogwai: no darle de comer después de medianoche, no mojarlo y evitar que le dé la luz del Sol.

A kitchen maid and a nightingale help save an emperor with the power of song and friendship.

O.J. Simpson plays Michael Brennen, a San Francisco private eye who gets dragged into a drug-smuggling operation while searching for the girlfriend of a deal client, leading Brennen to a politically prominent family.

Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the 1968 Tet offensive with a cynical boss in the local bureau chief. His love interest is a Vietnamese doctor whose brother happens to be a leader in the Viet Cong and whose influential parents are involved in high-level corruption.

George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.

Quinlan, un ex-agente de la DEA, ha caído en desgracia por haber robado dinero confiscado. Sin embargo, es contratado por Chung Wei, líder de un cartel de narcotraficantes asentado en Amsterdam. Quinlan vuela a Hong Kong donde deberá reunirse con Chung, siendo su idea extraerle toda la información posible y delatarlo a la policía. Pero las dos primeras batidas salen mal y se saldan con la muerte de dos oficiales de la policía, por lo que los federales deberán decidir si seguir confiando en Quinlan o no.

Hollywood, año 1924. La dulce Estie llega a la ciudad soñando con convertirse en una estrella de cine. Pero no será sencillo de conseguir triunfar en la meca del cine, aunque ella y el perro Won Ton Ton harán todo lo posible por conseguirlo.

China, 7th century. On their way to a provincial center Judge Dee and his three wives spend the night at a Taoist monastery. Soon the judge discovers that the secluded place holds a secret - the former abbot died of unnatural causes. After a number of mysterious events and more cases of murder Dee tracks down the true villain.

Una sacerdotisa felina está detrás de un amuleto dorado, el cual tiene poderes mágicos.

After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.

Cuando el marino Whipple Hoxworth regresa a su hogar en Hawai, se encuentra con que la fortuna de su abuelo ha caido en manos de su odioso primo Micah Hale. Whip decide entonces montar su propia plantación de piñas para hacerle la competencia a Micah. Mientras tanto, su hijo Noel se enamora de la hija de Mun Ki, un granjero chino. La trama se desarrolla en la época anterior a la anexión de Hawai por los Estados Unidos (1898).

Two mercenaries are hired to commit a political assassination.

John Hathaway (Gregory Peck), un importante científico americano, se entera de que que un antiguo profesor suyo está desarrollando en la China comunista un revolucionario sistema de cultivo capaz de adaptarse a cualquier clima. Las grandes potencias se muestran muy interesadas por el descubrimiento. El gobierno americano le exige a Hathaway que consiga la fórmula. Ante su negativa, deciden implantarle en el cerebro, sin que él lo sepa, un arma mortífera.

A spy is brought back from cryogenic suspension after being almost killed in a plane crash returning from a mission to learn about a deadly new weapon being developed in the East. But the vital memories are being suppressed, so the authorities use ultra-advanced technologies to try to uncover the secret.

This military service comedy chronicles the misadventures of the U.S.S. Bustard in Japan. The crew has stolen a Buddha statue from a Japanese village, which if discovered missing would threaten Japanese/American relations. Doc Willoughby is the ship's petty officer, whose antics are constantly getting him into trouble with his captain. On shore leave, Willoughby falls for a seemingly demure Japanese girl in a kimono shop, who actually turns out to be a Japanese/American nurse in the US Navy, Lt. Tomiko Momoyama. However, it turns out she was betrothed as a child to a traditional Japanese man named Toshi, who fully intends on enforcing tradition. Willoughby divides his time between trying to return the Buddha statue back to the Japanese village it rightfully belongs to, and trying to woo Tomiko from the traditional Japanese man she rightfully belongs to.

The altered American release of Godzilla Raids Again. Originally meant to be known as the The Volcano Monsters, the film was eventually released as "Gigantis."

While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.

Adaptación de la novela homónima de Julio Verne. Un ladrón ha robado 55.000 libras del banco de Inglaterra. Todos creen que ha sido Philleas Fogg, un auténtico caballero inglés, que ha hecho una apuesta con sus compañeros de club, asegurando que es capaz de dar la vuelta al mundo en 80 días.

Un corresponsal de guerra norteamericano (Holden) es enviado al este de Asia para cubrir la guerra de Corea (1950-1953). En Hong Kong, conoce a una bella médico euroasiática (Jones). A pesar de las dificultades que supone la diferencia de raza y cultura, entre ambos surgirá una apasionada relación.

Un corresponsal de guerra norteamericano (Holden) es enviado al este de Asia para cubrir la guerra de Corea (1950-1953). En Hong Kong, conoce a una bella médico euroasiática (Jones). A pesar de las dificultades que supone la diferencia de raza y cultura, entre ambos surgirá una apasionada relación.

A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.

A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.

In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.

El sargento de marines James O`Hearn, se encuentra ante un consejo de guerra, acusado de deserción y unos cuantos cargos más o igual de graves, y se verá obligado a contar su increíble historia que le ha llevado hasta esta situación.

Merl Kramer trabaja como taquígrafa para un psiquiatra. La joven se está viendo con Karl Benson, un detective privado y ex policía. Merle menciona de pasada que uno de los pacientes de su jefe es un escritor que tiene sueños recurrentes en los que asesina a su esposa, quien es dueña de una valiosa colección de joyas. Cuando la esposa del escritor es hallada muerta de manera idéntica a la del sueño de su marido, éste se convierte en el primer sospechoso. Pero a medida que avanza la investigación de la policía y de Joe Cooper, el investigador de la compañía aseguradora de las joyas, varias personas se irán incorporando al círculo de sospechosos, incluida la propia Merl...

All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up, it is discovered that a quarter-million dollars is missing. Charlie Chan--and, of course, his #1 son--must discover the identity of the person who doped the passengers and stole the money.

In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague, the only man able to read the ancient Aztec script that is supposed to reveal the location of the treasure. Charlie Chan and his #1 and #2 sons journey to the jungles of Mexico to find the victim and bring the kidnapper and his gang to justice.

Hoping to put the cuffs on criminal mastermind Socks Barstow, detective Mike Hanrohan is stymied by the fact that his younger brother Denny has joined Barstow's gang. Things get worse after a bloody shootout, in which Mike apparently guns down his own brother.

Después de acostarse en su dormitorio, Alison (Claudette Colbert) se despierta sobresaltada a bordo de un tren al que no recuerda haber subido. El tren se dirige de Nueva York a Boston. El médico que la atiende sospecha que ha tenido una pesadilla, pero Alison no recuerda nada y no sabe por qué tiene una pistola en su bolso. Cuando llega a Boston, llama a su marido Richard (Don Ameche), y éste le dice que ha informado a la policía de su desaparición.

Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents' dismay. Soon he's drawing up plans to marry the girl and setting up private practice in a smaller town.

A movie serial in 13 chapters, and Lionel Atwill's final film: Following the end of WWII, war-monger Sir Eric Hazarias sets the wheel in motion for WWIII. His search for Meteorium 245, the only practical defence against the atomic bomb, leads him to mythical Pendrang. Obstructing his sinister plan to rule the world are Rod Stanton, United Peace Foundation investigator, Tal Shan , Pendrang native, and Marjorie Elmore, daughter of scientist Dr. Elmore, unwilling assistant to Sir Eric.

Lotus Long plays the title role, an American-educated Japanese woman broadcasting enemy propaganda to American troops. Captured GI Pete Sherman (Byron Barr) 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 oriental deejay on her own petard. Managing to make his escape, Sherman hooks up with the Japanese Underground, convincing anti-militarist Charlie Otani (Keye Luke) to aid in a kidnapping plot aimed at Tokyo Rose.

Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a desert resort.

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un piloto americano se somete a una operación de cirugía plástica para lograr infiltrarse en territorio japonés y poder llevar adelante su investigación

American, Chinese and Australian agents join forces to stop the Nazis from obtaining the formula for synthetic fuel.

A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.

La historia vuelve a centrarse en la elección de Gillespie por uno de los dos asistentes, el Dr. Red o el Dr. Lee. Para ello tendrán que afrontar otro caso y decidir el diagnóstico: se trata de una niña que se pone enferma cada vez que come dulces.

En esta ocasión, Andy ha de lidiar con dos hermosas gemelas.

It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.

In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.

A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.

The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.

Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.

Gay Lawrence (George Sanders) es un detective aficionado, elegante y frío, conocido tan solo como “El Halcón”. Se entera de que su hermano Tom (Tom Conway) ha sido asesinado a bordo de un barco procedente de Sudamérica. “El Halcón” comienza a investigar a los posibles asesinos antes de descubrir que su hermano aún sigue vivo. Su búsqueda lo lleva por turbias aguas repletas de espías, chantajistas y criminales. “El Halcón” persigue a los delincuentes y debe proteger a un diplomático para evitar que atenten contra su vida. Todas las investigaciones le conducen a una famosa revista de moda y a enfrentarse con una red de espías Nazis.

A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it past customs. Now, his lordship is visiting Uncle Matt Lindsay who looks just like him. Thanks to flirtatious Diana's efforts to get the elephant back, the comic confusion proliferates, with 'spitfire' Carmelita (now a blonde) playing a prominent part.

Bogart interpreta a un oficial de artillería del ejército nortamericano que, en 1941, tras un juicio militar, cae en desgracia y decide abandonar el país. Consigue un trabajo en América Central, pero cuando está a punto de irse descubre que los japoneses proyectan atacar el Canal de Panamá y las bases americanas en Pearl Harbor.

Los hermanos Johnny y Kirk Davis trabajan en uno de los diarios más grandes del país como corresponsales de guerra. Están unidos por una gran amistad hasta el momento en que aparece una antigua compañera de trabajo que está comprometida con Kirk.

El nieto del Hombre Invisible y su novia, que trabajan para los servicios secretos británicos, tienen una fórmula que les permite volverse invisibles y la usan para espiar a los nazis. Así es como consiguen desbaratar sus planes para atacar a los Estados Unidos.

A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.

The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.

A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II China.

Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.

Based upon the novel by Jack London, two friends in the Klondike aid settlers being terrorized by outlaws.

A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.

A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.

Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had. Unfortunately, he gets drafted into the army before he's able to join the team. Two of the team's members get the bright idea of passing off a burly truck driver as the "athlete". Complications ensue.

The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying and school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.

Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them.

Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.

Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?

Un periodista americano, que publica bajo seudónimo noticias muy críticas con el Moscú soviético, es chantajeado por el portero de su hotel, para que saque de la URSS a su hija. El único problema es que la hija es una ferviente comunista.

In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on.

A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.

El editor de un periódico y su sirviente coreano combaten el crimen como vigilantes, mientras aparentan ser un gangster enmascarado y su cómplice. Primera entrega del serial de la Universal Pictures basado en el personaje radiofónico. Le seguiría "The Green Hornet Strikes Again!" (1940)

In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.

A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.

Adaptación de una novela de Lloyd C. Douglas ("Sublime obsesión", "La túnica sagrada"), cuyos protagonistas son médicos que tienen concepciones contrapuestas de su profesión: unos son idealistas, y otros materialistas.

In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over and decide to team up. They are further assisted by a Chinese cameraman. The three of them manage to expose of spy ring operating out of the Shanghai office of the woman's newspaper.

Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!

In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).

Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a web of blackmail and murder.

Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.

China, durante los últimos años del dominio de la dinastía Qing. El matrimonio concertado entre Wang Lung, un humilde granjero, y O-Lan, una esclava doméstica, soportará a lo largo de los años las muchas dificultades de la vida; pero las incontables tentaciones de una frágil prosperidad pondrán en peligro su amor y la supervivencia de toda su familia.

Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!

A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.

When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.

While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.

When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.

Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.

A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.

El Doctor Gogol se enamora de Yvonne Orlac, la esposa del pianista Stephen Orlac. Cuando éste sufre un accidente de tren, y sus manos son amputadas, Yvonne pide ayuda a Gorgol, que le transplanta las manos de un asesino. La operacion parece funcionar, y el organismo de Orlac no rechaza las nuevas manos. Sin embargo, Orlac descubrirá unas nuevas tendencias que nunca había tenido: la necesidad de matar. Su mujer Yvonne tambien descubre el cambio de su marido. Mientras tanto, Gogol sigue enamorado de Yvonne, con un amor cada vez más obsesivo... (FILMAFFINITY)

An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.

La Secretaria de la Armada informa al capitán Winslow de que va a recibir un nuevo mecanismo de control que revolucionará la guerra en el mar. Pero el mecanismo no tarda en desaparecer...

Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.

Katrin es una atractiva mujer que realiza un viaje por China mientras atraviesa una etapa de soledad. Decide casarse con el doctor Walter Fane, pero éste, debido a su profesión, no puede dedicarle mucho tiempo a su esposa, y ella comienza un romance secreto con un amante.