Tokyo Joe (1949)
An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
Top billed cast
Humphrey BogartColonel Joseph 'Joe' Barrett
Alexander KnoxMark Landis
Florence MarlyTrina Pechinkov Landis
Sessue HayakawaBaron Kimura
Jerome CourtlandDanny
Gordon JonesIdaho
Teru ShimadaIto
Hideo MoriKanda
Charles MeredithGeneral Ireton
Rhys WilliamsColonel Dahlgren
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