Rent Tokyo Joe (1949)
3.2 of 5 from 61 ratings
1h 28min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Drama starring Humphrey Bogart as Joe Barrett, an American who returns to Tokyo three years after the Second World War and attempts to pick up threads of his life in the city before the war. He hopes to return to his bar, Tokyo Joe's, and his wife Trina (Florence Marly), with whom he has a seven-year-old daughter - but circumstances have changed greatly since he left and he runs into troubles of both a personal and a political nature as he struggles to straighten things out.
- Actors:
- Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly, Sessue Hayakawa, Jerome Courtland, Gordon Jones, Teru Shimada, Hideo Mori, Charles Meredith, Rhys Williams, Lora Lee Michel, David Bauer, Hugh Beaumont, Whit Bissell, Tommy Bond, James Cardwell, Scott Edwards, Frank Fujino, Julia Fukuzaki, Gene Gondo
- Directors:
- Stuart Heisler
- Producers:
- Robert Lord
- Writers:
- Steve Fisher, Walter Doniger, Cyril Hume, Bertram Millhauser
- Studio:
- Paladium
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance, Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 27/06/2022
- Run Time:
- 89 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary with writer and film historian Nora Fiore (2022)
- Bertrand Tavernier on 'Tokyo Joe' (2017, 34mins): archival appreciation by the celebrated filmmaker and critic
- A Superstar Returns (2022, 15 mins): archivist Tom Vincent assesses the career of actor Sessue Hayakawa, the silent-era star who made his return to Hollywood filmmaking with Tokyo Joe
- Second unit photography (1948, 11 mins): rare footage shot by second unit director Art Black and cameramen Joseph Biroe and Emil Oster Jr in Tokyo for use in the main feature
- The Negro Soldier (1944, 41 mins): WWII documentary film intended as a recruitment drive for African American enlistees, directed by Stuart Heisler and now preserved by the National Film Registry for its cultural and historical significance
- Jim Pines on 'The Negro Soldier' (2010, 41 mins): audio presentation by the author and lecturer, recorded following a screening of the film at London's BFI Southbank
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