On 2025-08-12 10:16, David Johnson wrote:

> Those are good points. I've always found it more than a bit difficult
> to imagine that Beam developed those sensibilities just by reading
> books at the Williamsport library [1].

House of Bamboo (1955 movie) had the same sort of sensibilities. Li
Xiang Lan, aka Masako Yamaguchi aka Shirley Yamaguchi had a varied
career that could only have come out of World War II.