DIMENSION 5-1966-A secret US organization Espionage Inc. lead by Kane (Donald Woods) battles the far East evil org Dragon led by Big Buddha (Harold Sakata). Kane has captured an enemy agent and tries to keep him alive long enough to talk. Special Agent Powers (Jeffery Hunter) is sent to help out. He has a special belt that helps him move back and forth in time. He's assisted by Sato (Robert Ito). The good guys have a machine, the Psycho Inducer that can interrogate the enemy agent, invented by their equivalent of Q (Jon Lormer). It looks like a salon hair dryer. Unless the US removes all its armies from Asia Dragon will destroy LA on Christmas day. Powers new partner Ki (France Nuyen) seems to be a double agent assassin. At a Chinese restaurant, Powers tries to get info on Buddha from owner/smuggler/friend Kim (Kam Tong) but instead is given a statue with a bomb in it. Their car blows up. Later after it's revealed Ki is really working for Espionage, Powers gives her a time belt. Then they visit Ming Products where Buddha in a wheelchair resides. When one of his flunkies disagrees with him he has a big bald guy Ghengis (Lee Kolima) lock him in a trunk with no air. The duo go ahead in time to prevent Buddha's plans. I really didn't understand why they went ahead in time.
This very cheap looking science fiction spy adventure drama doesn't make much sense to me. Director Franklin Adreon was busy in TV when he made this and CYBORG 2087 the same year. Both were written by Arthur C. Pierce who wrote and produced THE HUMAN DUPLICATORS and worked with Jerry Warren on INVASION OF THE ANIMAL PEOPLE.
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