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"The Mask of Nippon [...] used all the considerable skill and power characteristic of the series [The World in Action] to produce a message of hate worthy of Joseph Goebbels. 'The soldiers of the rising sun are little men,' booms Lorne Greene, narrator of the series, 'two faced; with a modern and progressive surface thinly hiding their savage and barbaric double character!' It was wartime and anything went, but the appeal of the film was clearly racist; in interesting contrast with the mild and reasonable manner in which similar films treated our Caucasian enemies."
-- Ronald Blumer


Source:
Blumer, Ronald. "Reviews of Short Films: Enemy Alien." Cinema Canada, June-July 1976. (p. 48)