I used to get drunk listening to this, thinking of the girl I lost because of my drinking, picturing her walking home alone in the rain, carrying bags of shopping.
George Takaki will go on to play in Star Trek. This was made in 1964 but wasn't released until later due to content. But Rod Sterling was always trying to tell a moral to the story.
My uncle showed us this to our japanese american family on like Thanksgiving one year. He said this was banned because it perpetuated the Japanese American Spy myth, everyone was like... well maybe we shouldn't watch this on Thanksgiving, but he insisted. We were all watching it silently, it felt like a very long episode, and I kept thinking, this ain't so bad, but it's pretty heavy... I kept thinking there's gotta be some progressive endcap, there's so many safe outs to the spy myt... Then George Takei grabs a samurai sword, and jumps out a plate glass window screaming BANZAI!!!! And we all just laughed our asses off, my grandma included lol Like what the hell was that? George Takei is a japanese american slasher spy now?
I’ve been watching the twilight zone since I was a teenager in the 70s and on through the years and never knew about this episode until just now. It gave me chills.
I can see why this was not released back then. The neighbor who lived behind me was a former Japanese Jungle Soldier, he used to call the P-38 Lighting the Twin Forked Devil and was almost killed by one and saw many of his friends strafed to death by them in the war. I also knew a kind old man who lived through WWII at work who absolutely hated the Japanese, even the mention of their race would bring a strong reaction from him. I couldn't imagine a whole nation seeing this on TV and how it would make old vets from both sides feel and react. So yeah not releasing it back then was probably a really good idea, especially after a Japanese killed a War Veteran in his own home in his own attic. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
@@LordGreystoke True but that doesn't mean that it still would have been a bad idea to air it back when it was supposed to be released. There were still a very large population of WWII Veterans who were alive then and have very strong feelings against the Japanese. My old friends one of which I gave an example of. Just my opinion. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
Yea. The other guy killed an officer who surrender by dropping that sword and stuff then he took it. He lied at first and said the officer tried to kill him but he won
