In this drama a heroic WW II Air Corpsman returns to his Tokyo home where he owned a nightclub. He left years ago after thinking that his wife had died. Upon his return, he discovers that his wife and daughter are very much alive. Unfortunately, she is now married to a lawyer. This doesn’t stop the veteran from trying to win her back. While there the head of the Japanese secret service, blackmails the ex-flyer into flying smuggled war criminals into other countries with the information that the veteran’s wife worked as a “Tokyo Rose” type of radio broadcaster. Later the pilot confronts her with this damning information and she explains that she was forced into it. Now the pilot must do all he can to get them all safely out of their difficult predicament., Humphrey Bogart plays Joe Barrett, an ex-pilot who returns to the post-war Tokyo he used to bomb to reclaim his pre-war bar, Tokyo Joe’s. Refused, he sets up in the air freight business but the necessary permits and licences are controlled by gangster Baron Kimura (Sessue Hayakaw, better known to western audiences for his role in The Bridge on The River Kwai ). And to complicate matters, Bartlett’s wife Trina (Florence Marly), who he believed killed, has survived the war by making anti-American broadcasts, and, despite re-marrying, has a daughter that is his. When Kimura threatens to expose her unless Bartlett helps him smuggle wanted war criminals to safety, Bartlett must decide between his family and his duty. Stuart Heisler’s thriller was the first feature film allowed to be made in post-war Japan and the exteriors clearly show the damage inflicted upon the city., Humphrey Bogart as an ex-serviceman and war hero in postwar Tokyo, where he gets blackmailed by a Japanese royal into participating in a plot to smuggle war criminals back into the country., Crime melodrama about a former American war hero in postwar Japan who is forced into smuggling to save his wife and child. When he returns to Tokyo, he learns that the wife he believed had died in a concentration camp is in fact alive. Now remarried, she is living with a child he learns is his daughter. Determined to win them back, he decides to stay, only to become involved in a shady shipping business.
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “Tokyo Joe ” ?
A: The main cast includes Humphrey Bogart,Alexander Knox,Florence Marly,Sessue Hayakawa,Jerome Courtland,Gordon Jones,Teru Shimada,Hideo Mori,Charles Meredith,Rhys Williams,Lora Lee Michel,Kyoko Kama,Gene Gondo,Harold Goodwin,James Cardwell,Frank Kumagai,Tetsu Komai,Otto Han,Yosan Tsuruta,Tommy Bond,Charles Lawton,Viola Lawrence,Walter Doniger,Charles Lawton Jr.,Robert Peterson,James Crowe,Cyril Hume,Bertram Millhauser,Clay Campbell,Jean Louis,Morris Stoloff.
Q: When Did the “Tokyo Joe” Released?
A: The Movie “Tokyo Joe” originally aired on 1949-10-26 and released in the year of 1949.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “Tokyo Joe” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “Tokyo Joe” ?
A: “Tokyo Joe” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
