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November 1949 (USA)
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An American returns to Tokyo try to pick up threads of his pre-WW2 life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities. full summary | add synopsis
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Postwar Melodrama not that bad
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Humphrey Bogart | ... | Joseph 'Joe' Barrett | |
| Alexander Knox | ... | Mark Landis | |
| Florence Marly | ... | Trina Pechinkov Landis | |
| Sessue Hayakawa | ... | Baron Kimura | |
| Jerome Courtland | ... | Danny | |
| Gordon Jones | ... | Idaho | |
| Teru Shimada | ... | Ito | |
| Hideo Mori | ... | Kanda | |
| Charles Meredith | ... | General Ireton | |
| Rhys Williams | ... | Colonel Dahlgren | |
| Lora Lee Michel | ... | Anya, Trina's daughter |
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88 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Finland:K-16 |
USA:Approved (PCA #13749)
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This was the first movie allowed to film in post-war Japan.
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Continuity: When Joe fights with Kanda to liberate Anya, she sits on the bed twice.
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Joseph 'Joe' Barrett:
First I fly the seat off my pants, and then they repossess the pants.
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Referenced in Bogart: The Untold Story (1996) (TV)
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I Never Knew
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Several years ago I stumbled upon a 35 cent biography of Humphrey Bogart written shortly after his death. In it he comments on many of his films, including Tokyo Joe. "Utterly worthless picture" he noted. Many critics agree as they dismiss this piece of hokum about what happens when a former soldier returns to what was his "home town" before the war. Thing have changed. It is not the paradise it once was to him and it is certainly no "Rick's" Instead of "As Time Goes By" we hear "These Foolish Things," a better song but not nearly as famous.
Tokyo Joe was made not long after Bogey had left Warner Brothers and it has more than a whiff of a "message picture" that strikes to find some meaning in postwar Tokyo. But like "House Of Bamboo" this film works not only as melodrama but as historical artifact of a period that is now forgotten. We don't think of the Japanese as a defeated power. Ever since the Honda Accord and the Toyota Camry started blowing away American competition we have thought of the Japanese as a superpower economically, not as a crippled defeated country. This film captures a mood that is rarely expressed in movies and it captures it with rather high production values. The rest of the cast isn't much but they play it straight and thus Tokyo Joe stands up even better after the initial viewing. The DVD transfer is very good and it remains a worthy addition to the Bogart canon.