Tokyo Joe
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (1949)
Drama, Thriller
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#13082
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Seen ItYes
043396066922
IMDB   6.4
1 hr 28 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Humphrey Bogart Joe Barrett
Alexander Knox Mark Landis
Florence Marly Trina
Sessue Hayakawa Baron Kimura
Jerome Courtland Danny
Gordon Jones Idaho
Teru Shimada Ito
Hideo Mori Kanda
Charles Meredith Gen. Ireton
Rhys Williams Col. Dahlgren
Director
Stuart Heisler
Producer Robert Lord
Writer Bertram Millhauser
Cyril Hume
Walter Doniger
Steve Fisher
Cinematography Charles Lawton Jr.


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
Edition Details
Distributor Sony Pictures
Release Date 2002
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio 1.33:1
Subtitles Chinese; English; French; Japanese; Korean; Portuguese; Spanish; Thai
Audio Tracks English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Layers Single Side, Single Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 1

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