Movie
Tokyo Joe
Overview
An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
Details
- Release date
- 1949-10-26
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller, Crime
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Santana Pictures Corporation, Columbia Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Humphrey Bogart as Colonel Joseph 'Joe' Barrett
- Alexander Knox as Mark Landis
- Florence Marly as Trina Pechinkov Landis
- Sessue Hayakawa as Baron Kimura
- Jerome Courtland as Danny
- Gordon Jones as Idaho
- Teru Shimada as Ito
- Hideo Mori as Kanda
- Charles Meredith as General Ireton
- Rhys Williams as Colonel Dahlgren
- Lora Lee Michel as Anya
- Kyoko Kamo as Nani-San (uncredited)
Crew
- Stuart Heisler - Director
- Bertram Millhauser - Screenplay
- Cyril Hume - Screenplay
- Steve Fisher - Story
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