Angela Lansbury is the stone - cold evil tool of the Communists, manipulating her weak McCarthy-esque Senator husband and serving as the «controller» for her own son,
a Korean War hero turned into a robotic assassin by sinister commie brainwashers.
Ignoring the absurd idea that somehow the
Korean resistance to the Japanese was a key to the winning of the
war (which the film explicitly states at one point), the creation of noble resistance
heroes (even when sometimes compromised) versus the evil Japanese villain is pure escapist nonsense that passes itself off as realism instead of the Tarantino-esque fantasy it actually is.