TOKYO JOE is a postwar drama/thriller from Hollywood that allows the viewer to witness life in Japan shortly after the devastating events that ended WW2. It starts Humphrey Bogart in typical form playing a businessman who heads off to Japan to reconnect with an old colleague. While there he gets involved in the criminal scene. This is a film you watch not so much for the plot, but for the backdrop and political situation. Bogart is okay but the Japanese actors are above him in terms of talent. What's particularly amusing here are a couple of judo fights in which both participants are heavily doubled. Overall, though, a different kind of Hollywood noir.
Review of Tokyo Joe
