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Tokyo Joe is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Humphrey Bogart. This was Heisler's first of two features starring Bogart, the other was Chain Lightning that also wrapped in 1949 but was held up in release until 1950.
Tokyo Joe: Directed by Stuart Heisler. With Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly, Sessue Hayakawa. An American returns to Tokyo try to pick up threads of his pre-WW2 life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Stuart Heisler
- 1949-11
Danny. Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. In the wake of Japan's surrender, American expatriate Joseph Barrett (Humphrey Bogart) hopes to revive the...
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- Stuart Heisler
- Drama
- Humphrey Bogart
Tokyo Joe was the first American film to be shot on location in Japan following the war. Most of the main story was filmed in a Hollywood studio, but second unit director Arthur Black was sent to Tokyo for background shots, including an aerial view of Mount Fuji, shots at Haneda airport, and a bus ride into the city past burned-out factories ...
Joe Barrett returns to Tokyo after World War II where he once owned a bar, Tokyo Joe's, and deserted his wife Trina. They have a seven-year-old daughter. Kimura forces Joe into piloting war criminals by revealing that during the war Trina made treasonous propaganda broadcasts.
Academy Award® winner Humphrey Bogart (1951 Best Actor, The African Queen) stars as a World War II Air Corps hero whose decision to confront his past hurls him into a corrupt world in the dramatic TOKYO JOE.
An American veteren returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres.
