Tokyo Joe (1949) on Netflix
Approved19491h 28mCrimeDramaFilm-Noir
Joe Barrett returns to Tokyo and finds his old bar, Tokyo Joe's, still running under his friend Ito, who tells him his wife Trina is alive and married to Mark Landis.
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Plot summary
Joe Barrett, a former US Air Force colonel, returns to occupied Tokyo to see what is left of Tokyo Joe's, the bar and gambling place he ran before the war. His old friend Ito has kept it going, and tells him that Trina, the wife he believed dead, is alive. She has divorced him and married Mark Landis, a lawyer working for the American occupation, and has a seven-year-old daughter, Anya. Joe's visitor's permit expires in sixty days, so he wants to start an airline freight business to stay. Through Ito he meets Baron Kimura, a former Kempeitai official who offers to finance a small airline hauling frozen frogs for export, which Joe suspects will serve as a front.
Cast
- Hideo Morias Kanda
- Kyoko Kamoas Nani-San (uncredited)
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- Otto Hanas Col. Hara (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tokyo Joe (1949)
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- Sessue Hayakawa had been in France from 1937 to 1949 and joined the French Resistance, aiding Allied flyers. When Humphrey Bogart's Santana Pictures tracked him down to offer him a role in Tokyo Joe, the American Consulate investigated his wartime activities before issuing a work permit.
- A second unit led by director Arthur S. Black Jr. and cinematographer Joseph Biroc went to Tokyo to collect exterior scene shots for Tokyo Joe, making it the first American film production to film in postwar Japan.
- The film used a Lockheed Hudson bomber converted into a cargo hauler, showing both the aircraft's interiors and aerial sequences built around it.
