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Release Date: 1949 Cast: Gordon Jones, Lora Lee Michel, Florence Marly, Hideo Mori, Charles Meredith, Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Rhys Williams, Harold Goodwin, James Cardwell, Gene Gondo, Sessue Hayakawa ...MORE
Cast: Gordon Jones, Lora Lee Michel, Florence Marly, Hideo Mori, Charles Meredith, Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Rhys Williams, Harold Goodwin, James Cardwell, Gene Gondo, Sessue Hayakawa, Teru Shimada, Jerome Courtland ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Thriller, Romantic drama, Crime Drama, Action, War film, Crime Thriller, Romance Film Tokyo Joe is a 1949 film directed by Stuart Heisler from a story by Steve Fisher, adapted by Walter Doniger and starring Humphrey Bogart, Florence Marly and Sessue Hayakawa. 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.
After World War II, ex-serviceman Joe Barrett (Humphrey Bogart) returns to Tokyo, to see if there's anything left of his pre-war bar and gambling joint ("Tokyo Joe's") after all the bombing. Amazingly, it is more or less intact and being run by his old friend Ito (Teru... MORE
Tokyo Joe is a 1949 film directed by Stuart Heisler from a story by Steve Fisher, adapted by Walter Doniger and starring Humphrey Bogart, Florence Marly and Sessue Hayakawa. 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.
After World War II, ex-serviceman Joe Barrett (Humphrey Bogart) returns to Tokyo, to see if there's anything left of his pre-war bar and gambling joint ("Tokyo Joe's") after all the bombing. Amazingly, it is more or less intact and being run by his old friend Ito (Teru Shimada). He is also shocked to learn from Ito that his wife Trina (Florence Marly), who he thought had died in the war, is in fact still very much alive. She has remarried, to American diplomat Mark Landis (Alexander Knox), and has a seven-year-old child, Joe's daughter Anya (Lora Lee Michel).
Barrett starts up an air freight business. One of his customers, underworld boss Baron Kimura (Sessue Hayakawa), wants him to smuggle war criminals into the country in order to organize an anti-American Communist movement. When he balks, Kimura kidnaps Anya. Barrett rescues her and foils the Baron's plot, LESS
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