Main Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly, Sessue Hayakawa, Jerome Courtland
Release Year: 1949
Country: US
Run Time: 88 minutes
MPAA Rating: NR
Plot
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, All Movie Guide
Gordon Jones - Idaho; Teru Shimada - Ito; Hideo Mori - Kanda; Charles Meredith - Gen. Ireton; Rhys Williams - Col. Dahlgren; Lora Lee Michel - Anya; Gene Gondo - Maikaze; Harold Goodwin - Maj. Loomis; James B. Cardwell - MP Captain; Frank Kumagai - Truck Driver; Tetsu Komai - Takenobu; Otto Han - Hara; Tommy Bond; Kyoko Kama - Nani-San
Credit
Robert A. Peterson - Art Director, Henry S. Kesler - Associate Producer, Jean Louis - Costume Designer, Wilbur McGaugh - First Assistant Director, Stuart Heisler - Director, Viola Lawrence - Editor, George Antheil - Composer (Music Score), Morris W. Stoloff - Musical Direction/Supervision, Harry Link - Songwriter, Holt Marvell - Songwriter, Clay Campbell - Makeup, Charles Lawton - Cinematographer, Robert Lord - Producer, James Crowe - Set Designer, James A. Crowe - Set Designer, Walter Doniger - Screenwriter, Cyril Hume - Screenwriter, Bertram Millhauser - Screenwriter, Steve Fisher - Short Story Author
Luckily, you don't have to travel to Tokyo to sample Tokyo Joe's cuisine. The chain of about a dozen fast-casual Japanese restaurants (all in Colorado) offers healthful Japanese food. You won't find fried foods or those containing monosodium glutamate in these parts. Larry Leith (a Colorado native and former professional skier) opened up his first Tokyo Joe's restaurant in a Denver suburb in 1996. The company plans to add three to four additional restaurants in 2005. Leith estimates capacity in Tokyo Joe's home state to be 30 to 40 restaurants and is eyeballing its potential in expanding to the West and South.
Officers:
President: Larry Leith
VP Operations: Marci Leith
Director Technology and Digital Marketing: Linden Mundekis
For the Japanese-American mobster and FBI informant, see Ken Eto.
Tokyo Joe is a 1949 film directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Humphrey Bogart, Florence Marly and Sessue Hayakawa. It was filmed on Columbia Pictures studio lot, not on location in Tokyo, Japan, although a second photographic unit was dispatched to Tokyo to collect exterior scene shots.
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.
