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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.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.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.
David Bauer
- Photo Sergeant
- (uncredited)
Hugh Beaumont
- Provost Marshal Major
- (uncredited)
Whit Bissell
- Capt. Winnow
- (uncredited)
Tommy Bond
- Fingerprint Sergeant
- (uncredited)
James Cardwell
- Military Police Captain
- (uncredited)
Scott Edwards
- Officer
- (uncredited)
Frank Fujino
- Man
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis was the first movie allowed to film in post-war Japan.
- GoofsObvious double for Humphrey Bogart in the fight scenes and the street scenes filmed in Japan.
- Quotes
Joseph 'Joe' Barrett: First I fly the seat off my pants, and then they repossess the pants.
- ConnectionsEdited into This Is It (2009)
- SoundtracksThese Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
(uncredited)
Music by Jack Strachey
Lyrics by Eric Maschwitz (as Holt Marvell) and Harry Link
Sung on a record several times
Sung by Florence Marly at the Tokyo Joe cabaret in flashback
Reprised by an unidentified female at the Tokyo Joe cabaret
Variations in the score throughout the film
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Postwar Melodrama not that bad
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.
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.
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- Nov 16, 2006
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- Also known as
- Tokio-Joe
- Filming locations
- Tokyo, Japan(Exterior)
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- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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