“The difficulty OWI would have in raising the studios’ sights became apparent in mid-summer 1942 when Twentieth Century-Fox proudly released Little Tokyo. U.S.A.. […] Little Tokyo was a $300,000 “B” movie. But because of its treatment of war themes it became a milestone in the relationship between OWI and Hollywood. (…) Little Tokyo developed the theme that anyone of Japanese descent, whether alien or American citizen, was loyal to the emperor of Japan (…) it employed a quasi- documentary style for verisimilitude. The studio rushed cameramen to the Japanese quarter of Los Angeles to shoot the actual evacuation. The Army cooperated in the filming. (…) Little Tokyo preached hate for all people of Japanese descent (…). Little Tokyo taught OWI an important lesson. If the agency wanted to be effective in Hollywood, it was imperative that it see scripts prior to shooting.”

(G. Black, C.Koppes, Hollywood Goes to War, University of California Press, 1987)