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Meanwhile, Kimura kidnaps Anya, to squeeze Joe. Pressed by the military forces, who wants him to leave the country, and by Kimura, Joe tries to save Anya from the hands of Kimura. Although not being a bad movie, "Tokyo Joe" is certainly the worst film of Humphrey Bogart that I have ever watched.
Apr 24, 2018 · Tokyo Joe combines three of my favorite things: film noir, a historical setting, and political intrigue. It’s a criminally underrated movie and while it's not Humphrey Bogart’s best, it still deserves to be rediscovered by audiences. Tokyo Joe was released and set in then-present day 1949. Made by Bogart’s own Santana Productions, the film was one of…
Apr 21, 2011 · This film marked the beginning of Hayakawa’s post war comeback in Hollywood. Sessue Hayakawa plays bad well. The use of Japanese and Japanese-American actors aids the authentic feel of the film. The dialogue might not be as snappy as Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) and the plot might not be as tight as The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941 ...
Principal filming for Tokyo Joe took place from January 4 to the end of February 1949 on the Columbia Pictures studio lot, not on location in Tokyo, Japan. A second photographic unit was dispatched by Columbia to Tokyo to collect exterior scene shots and was the first movie company allowed to film in postwar Japan.
Nov 30, 2021 · Review: Tokyo Joe (1949) November 30, 2021. Bogey stars in this crime/noir film about a man doing his best to survive when all the world seems determined to grind him into the dirt. Tokyo Joe taps into the post-war frustrations that are synonymous with film noir. In the movie, Humphrey Bogart plays Joe Barrett, a former American Air Force ...
Tokyo Joe. In the wake of Japan's surrender, American expatriate Joseph Barrett (Humphrey Bogart) hopes to revive the Tokyo club he ran before he left to fight in World War II. Soon Barrett ...
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Tokyo Joe: Directed by Stuart Heisler. With Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly, Sessue Hayakawa. 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.
