WI: Charlie Chaplin was assassinated?

On May 14, 1932, film icon Charlie Chaplin arrived in Japan as a guest of then-Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi. The next day, he went with the Prime Minister's son to watch a sumo match.

On that same day, May 15th, Inukai was assassinated by junior Naval officers in a move that ended civilian control over the Imperial Japanese government.

As it turns out, however, the original assassination plot had included Chaplin as an additional target, meant to rile the UK and US up.

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=YTS8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA229#v=onepage&q&f=false

Now, say Chaplin decides against going to see the sumo match, is in the Inukai's vicinity like the assassins expected, and is thus shot as well. What would the exact fallout of the attack be, cinematically and politically?
 
This very event happens in my own timeline!

For Chaplin, I unfortunately think that his reputation takes a bit of a hit due to an earlier death. He had already directed some great movies, but with perhaps his two greatest films, Modern Times and The Great Dictator, not being made he would be more obscure to modern audiences.

The killing of the most famous movie star on earth would cause international outrage. Not enough to go to war, but other countries would take the Japanese military more seriously than they did in OTL.

Chaplin’s killers would represent a rival faction of the Japanese military than the ones who eventually took over in OTL and lead us to World War Two. Assuming the coup is successful, and it might fail even with Charlie dead, there would be very interesting butterflies to the military philosophy of Imperial Japan. No doubt they would still be aggressive, racist, and ultranationalist, but the outcome would change. Perhaps a poorer leadership in the years following the coup makes them weaker on the world stage?
 
For Chaplin, I unfortunately think that his reputation takes a bit of a hit due to an earlier death. He had already directed some great movies, but with perhaps his two greatest films, Modern Times and The Great Dictator, not being made he would be more obscure to modern audiences.

While I agree on his being made more obscure, I would assume his reputation in America would be more favourable, at least in the short term. Rather than being attacked for his moral fabric in the Barry trials, accused of being a communist, and banned from the US, he'd go down as a film icon unmired by politics or major scandal (well, not as major as the Barry trials). At least for the 1940s and 50s, he'd be a bit better remembered.


The killing of the most famous movie star on earth would cause international outrage. Not enough to go to war, but other countries would take the Japanese military more seriously than they did in OTL.

Chaplin’s killers would represent a rival faction of the Japanese military than the ones who eventually took over in OTL and lead us to World War Two. Assuming the coup is successful, and it might fail even with Charlie dead, there would be very interesting butterflies to the military philosophy of Imperial Japan. No doubt they would still be aggressive, racist, and ultranationalist, but the outcome would change. Perhaps a poorer leadership in the years following the coup makes them weaker on the world stage?
They were planning on starting a war with that, from what I read. Plus, it opens up a nasty can of worms in terms of precedence: that killing a foreign national for the sake of domestic politics is acceptable.

Worse relations with the US and UK are natural consequences but would that be enough to deter further incursions into China?
 
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