- Tokyo Joe
Infobox Film
name = Tokyo Joe
caption = DVD cover
imdb_id = 0041967
writer =Steve Fisher Walter Doniger Cyril Hume Bertram Millhauser
starring =Humphrey Bogart Florence Marley Sessue Hayakawa
director =Stuart Heisler
producer =Robert Lord
distributor =Columbia Pictures
released =
runtime = 88 min.
language = English
music =
awards =
budget ="Tokyo Joe" is a 1949 film directed by
Stuart Heisler and starringHumphrey Bogart ,Florence Marly andSessue Hayakawa . It was filmed inTokyo ,Japan .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, 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 for him. When he balks, Kimura kidnaps Anya. Barrett rescues her and foils the Baron's plot.Trivia
*There is now a Japanese
fast-food restaurant chain based inColorado named "Tokyo Joe's".*There was a
nightclub inPreston ,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".*There are martial art studios in the New England Area called "Tokyo Joe's" run by Grand Master Bobby "Tokyo Joe" LaMattina.
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