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- 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.
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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.
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.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Stuart Heisler
- 1949-11
The fact that any footage from Tokyo Joe was actually shot in Japan is of particular significance, since the formal end of the Occupation of Japan wasn’t until April 1952. Bogart himself never traveled to Tokyo, forcing the crew to borrow US military doubles and dress them in Bogie’s signature trench coat for certain scenes.
Most of the main story was filmed in a Hollywood studio, but second unit director Arthur Black was sent to Tokyo for background shots, including an aerial view of Mount Fuji, shots at Haneda airport, and a bus ride into the city past burned-out factories and newly built shacks.
Tokyo Joe was the first movie filmed in post-war Japan. It gets off to an interesting start as an American war veteran returns to Japan in the hopes of picking up his old life. The film pays some heed to fraught US-Japan relations following the war, showcases a little bit of the city and even has Humphrey Bogart engaging in Judo.
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- Santana Pictures Corporation
- Stuart Heisler
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.
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 discovers that...
- Drama
