He was smiling, showing a row of shiny gold-filled teeth, and as he smiled he drew in his breath with a polite, soft sibilant sound. Philip Ahn plays Prince Chung in THANK YOU, MR. MOTO (1937), although a white actress, Pauline Frederick, plays his mother, Madame Chung. Bessie Loo plays her servant and is soon murdered also. Lotus Long appears in the first Mr. Moto film, THINK FAST, MR. MOTO (1937), and again in MYSTERIOUS MR. MOTO (1938) where she is curiously billed as Karen Sorrell. There were three distinct characters around whom series of films were created in the 1930s: Charlie Chan, Mr. Moto and Mr. Wong. She passed away on May 7, 1985 in California. Anna May Wong plays Lan Ying Lin, the well-to-do daughter of a San Francisco-based importer of Chinese art and Philip Ahn plays “G-man” Kim Lee, a federal agent investigating the wholesale smuggling of illegal immigrants into the U.S. from China and other places. On a freighter going from San Francisco to Shanghai Mr. Moto solves mysteries caused by a gang of smugglers. (Interestingly, just a few years after this film, all five of the countries represented would become embroiled in the war, with two, England and Russia, at war with two of the others, Germany and Japan, with France occupied by Germany. He has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: It’s in this scene that we learn that Wong carries a gun, something I don’t believe Karloff’s Wong ever did. Mr. Moto, though capable of ruthlessness and deadly violence, appears on the surface to be a harmless eccentric who will sometimes say he is stupid. So very many things come in useful. Mr. Moto ist die von dem Schriftsteller John P. Marquand geschaffene Kunstfigur eines japanischen Geheimagenten. Kato was not only chauffeur to the title character, but also his partner-in-action and the inventor of the elaborate weapons and gadgets that the Green Hornet used in his investigations and battles with criminal opponents. Spoke English, French, German and Hungarian.

This basic description carries through most of the novels, with a slightly different description in He is often described as wearing formal evening clothes that are impeccably tailored.

Her chief motive is justice for her father who was murdered by henchmen working for the smugglers after he’d refused to employ any of the aliens. (“Daughter of Shanghai” is the way Wong’s character is billed when she performs her dance act in the Caribbean nightclub while working undercover. Peter Lorre brought the character of Mr. Moto to many comedy radio programs.For the professional wrestler known as Mr. Moto, see He remained unknown, traveling for several years and acting in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, until He doesn’t shoot anybody but uses it to shoot open a lock leading to a hidden chamber in the back of the Chinese restaurant.The same year Luke starred in PHANTOM OF CHINATOWN, he also appeared as Kato in the first serial version of THE GREEN HORNET. In the early 1950s, Lorre became seriously ill with a malady that affected his glands, causing a metabolic change. Moto, which some other characters believe to be a fairly obvious alias since "moto" is often the second part of a Japanese name, like in Hashimoto. According to Peter Lorre in an interview, he and his early friends invented and popularized the slang word "creep" meaning "a creepy, annoying person", though when they invented it, it was spelled "kreap", and did not have the same negative connotation.
In the 1930s, Lorre played the role of ‘Mr. Distinctive clipped manner of speaking Separated from wife, Annemarie Brenning, in October 1962; a divorce hearing had been scheduled for the day Lorre passed away, March 23, 1964. A possible romance between Wong and Win Len is hinted at but never really developed. Host/performer of NBC Radio's "Mystery in the Air" (1947).