Tokyo Joe
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| Tokyo Joe | |
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| Directed by | Stuart Heisler |
| Produced by | Robert Lord |
| Written by | Steve Fisher Walter Doniger Cyril Hume Bertram Millhauser |
| Starring | Humphrey Bogart Florence Marley Sessue Hayakawa |
| Distributed by | Warner Brothers |
| Running time | 88 min. |
| Language | English |
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Tokyo Joe is a 1949 film directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Humphrey Bogart, Florence Marly and Sessue Hayakawa. It was filmed in Tokyo, Japan.
[edit] Plot
After World War II, ex-serviceman Joe Barrett (Humphrey Bogart) returns to Tokyo, to see if there's anything left of his bar 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), whom 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, his 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 for him. When he balks, Kimura kidnaps Anya. Barrett rescues her and foils the Baron's plot.
[edit] Trivia
There is now a Japanese fast-food restaurant franchise based in Colorado named Tokyo Joe's.
There was a nightclub in Preston, England called "Tokyo Joe's". It has now been renamed "Lava and Ignite".
Bryan Ferry had a #15 hit in the UK in April 1977 with Tokyo Joe.
[edit] External links
- Tokyo Joe at the Internet Movie Database
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