Tokyo Joe (1949)
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One of the less famous Humphrey Bogart films is this 1949 drama about post-war guilt and remembrance. Bogart plays U.S. airman and war hero Joe Barrett. During the war, he believes, his wife Trina (Florence Marly) died in a Japanese concentration camp. But when Barrett returns to Tokyo and the bar… More One of the less famous Humphrey Bogart films is this 1949 drama about post-war guilt and remembrance. Bogart plays U.S. airman and war hero Joe Barrett. During the war, he believes, his wife Trina (Florence Marly) died in a Japanese concentration camp. But when Barrett returns to Tokyo and the bar named Tokyo Joe that he used to own, he discovers that Trina is not only alive, but she has married Mark Landis (Alexander Knox), an attorney, and they have a seven-year-old daughter Anya (Lora Lee Michel), whom he suspects is really his child. Baron Kimura (Sessue Hayakawa) forces Barrett into running an airborne smuggling operation by threatening to reveal publicly that Trina made wartime radio propaganda broadcasts. The shipment Barrett must fly includes three Japanese war criminals being brought back into the country, and Kimura insures that Barrett will comply by kidnapping Anya and holding her hostage. But the war criminals hijack the plane and are arrested. Barrett then tracks down Kimura and both die in a shoot-out which saves the life of Anya. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi
- Directed By
- Stuart Heisler
- Written By
- Walter Doniger, Steve Fisher, Cyril Hume, Bertram Millhauser
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Nov 1, 1949 Wide
- On DVD
- Feb 10, 2004
- Studio
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Christopher Lloyd, Sarasota Herald-Tribune
In an era when Hollywood loved cut-and-dry endings, Tokyo Joe is notable for the way Humphrey Bogart's character never steps fully into the light, or out of it.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Not much to take away from this world-weary melodrama except for a lot of gloom.
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Cast
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Humphrey Bogart
as Joe Barrett
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Florence Marly
as Trina
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Alexander Knox
as Mark Landis
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Sessue Hayakawa
as Baron Kimura
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Jerome Courtland
as Danny
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Gordon Jones
as Idaho
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Teru Shimada
as Ito
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Hideo Mori
as Kanda
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Charles Meredith
as Gen. Ireton
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Rhys Williams
as Col. Dahlgren
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Lora Lee Michel
as Anya
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Gene Gondo
as Maikaze
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Harold Goodwin
as Maj. Loomis
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James B. Cardwell
as MP Captain
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Frank Kumagai
as Truck Driver
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Tetsu Komai
as Takenobu
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Otto Han
as Hara
- Tommy Bond
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Kyoko Kama
as Nani-San
