It's what brings together a disparate group of characters, among them San Francisco's Juliana Crain (Alexa Davalos), to whom a reel of film falls to Joe Blake (Luke Kleintank), who claims he wants to join the small but growing Resistance, but is actually a (morally torn) Nazi agent Frank Frink (Rupert Evans), Juliana's boyfriend who is arrested by the Japanese after she has disappeared and finds his life altered forever as a result John Smith (Rufus Sewell), an SS Obergruppenfuhrer investigating the Resistance in New York and Pacific States of America trade minister Nobusuke Taogomi (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), who finds himself in the middle of it all while being guided by the ancient I Ching. Film that the Nazis, paranoid over how the populace would react to such a notion, will stop at nothing to retrieve.
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That is the world we're introduced to in the series with growing tensions between Germany and Japan, exasperated by the existence of reels of film that show an alternate history in which America won the war. Instead, outrage gives way to complacency as the vast majority of the population does what it needs to in order to survive. Dick, and set in 1962, The Man In The High Castle serves as a chilling look at what happens when a society is subjugated and, unlike more heroic takes on this concept, does not find the will to rise up and fight back.
The Nazis, along with Imperial Japan, won World War II and have split the country, with the Germans controlling the East, the Japanese the West and the Rocky Mountains serving as a sort of neutral zone.Ĭreated by The X-Files' Frank Spotnitz from the novel by Philip K. But in the case of Amazon's The Man In The High Castle, metaphors aren't necessary. Whether the original V from 1983 or the forthcoming USA Network series Colony, generally speaking whenever there's been a depiction of an occupying force in America, it's been analogous to the Nazis.