Tokyo Joe

Different standards for stunt doubles in those days, but a robust, energetic piece directed by Stuart Heisler, as American Joe (Humphrey Bogart, working for his own Santana Productions company) arrives at his old Tokyo gin joint for a reunion with partner Ito (Teru Shimada), early in Tokyo Joe, 1949.

Just returned to Tokyo, American Joe (Humphrey Bogart) drops in to visit Trina (Florence Marley), the wife he abandoned before the war, and whom he had believed was dead, in Tokyo Joe, 1949, the second film from Bogart's own Santana Productions.

Opening scenes from the second feature from Humphrey Bogart's startup Santana Pictures, including the first footage (second-unit exteriors, seen here) shot by an American company in Japan since the war, with the star as would-be saloon owner Joe Barrett, arriving in town in Tokyo Joe, 1949.