Tokyo Joe (1949)
Humphrey Bogart plays an ex colonel who returns to Tokyo following WWII to try and pick up with his old life and his wife (Florence Marly) but discovers nothing is as it was and his wife is now married to Alexander Knox.
A fairly stodgy drama most notable for being the first American movie allowed to film in postwar Japan and being the film to revitalise the career of Japanese matinee idol Sessue Hayakawa. Bogart is always watchable but Knox to put it mildly is dull. Things improve in the final third when the film focuses on the air smuggling of fugitive war criminals in which Bogart becomes involved.
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