Karate, the Hand of Death

The true story behind hands of death was that it was a military intelligence front in Japan monitoring the communist party. The back story is fascinating and the people involved in this movie should be contacted before they are forever gone. Robert Sandstrom aka Richard Sloan was the producer of this film. His wife Rie Segura had a brief role at the end of the film. While the film itself is poorly written, the fact that the US went through the effort to set up a film production company in Japan is fascinating. While Argo was about setting up a fictitious company, this was an actual company that produced motion pictures. Today we might wonder why, but back in the 60's, the Cold War was a perceived threat that justified spending this much of our resources on such a venture. This is truly a big story that someone should someday tell to the rest of the world.