Black Mist: A Screenplay of Occupied Japan

by Wolcott Wheeler

A thrilling screenplay based solidly on real-life events, BLACK MIST, for the first time, tells the American public the secret shocking political crimes committed by the U.S. government in Occupied Japan designed to cement America's control of Japanese politics in preparation for the Korean War--and the future of the Cold War. BLACK MIST tells the story of Robert Casey, an American investigative reporter exiled to Occupied Japan in June 1949 for attempting to expose Corporate America's backing of Nazi Germany before and during World War Two. Shortly after he arrives, the president of Japan National Railways is brutally murdered, and Japan is terrorized by two terrifying train wrecks blamed on Communist saboteurs. Casey hunts down the truth, all the way to a secret U.S. government germ warfare lab on Yokosuka Naval Base staffed by Japanese war criminals from the evil Unit 731 of the former Japanese Army--until, on his own, he's forced to thwart a CIA-backed assassination plot in the mountains of remote rural Japan intended to trigger World War Three.As a film script, BLACK MIST harkens back to the Humphrey Bogart hardboiled classics of the 1940s, especially his 1949 Occupied Japan thriller TOKYO JOE, as well as Jimmy Cagney's 1945 wartime drama BLOOD ON THE SUN. Its evocation of a world destroyed by total war echoes Graham Greene's 1949 THE THIRD MAN, directed by Carol Reed and starring film genius Orson Welles.Featuring an informative Author's Preface and illustrated with rare photos of the actual crimes described in the screenplay.The author, Wolcott Wheeler, is a Princeton graduate, journalist, and former screenwriter for Columbia Pictures in Hollywood who has lived in Japan and knows it well. He undertook extensive first-hand research to write BLACK MIST: he visited where its events took place in Japan and interviewed Mrs. Elizabeth Vining, personal tutor to Emperor Akihito after the war, and Faubion Bowers, aide-de-camp to General MacArthur during the Occupation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1981086099
• ISBN13: 9781981086092
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.3" x 8.5"