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Principal filming for Tokyo Joe took place from January 4 to the end of February 1949 on the Columbia Pictures studio lot, not on location in Tokyo, Japan. A second photographic unit was dispatched by Columbia to Tokyo to collect exterior scene shots and was the first movie company allowed to film in postwar Japan.
Tokyo Movie Shinsha and Toho Directed by Isao Takahata. 1982 Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie: Tokyo Movie Shinsha Key animation by Hayao Miyazaki. 1982 Gauche the Cellist: OH Production: Directed by Isao Takahata. 1982 The Wizard of Oz: Topcraft: Music composed by Joe Hisaishi. 1984 Sherlock Hound: Tokyo Movie Shinsha: Six Episodes directed by ...
Ken Eto (衛藤 健 Etō Ken; October 19, 1919 – January 23, 2004), also known as Tokyo Joe and "The Jap", was an American mobster with the Chicago Outfit and eventually an FBI informant who ran Asian gambling operations for the organization.
The following is a list of foreign films set in Japan.Japan has provided an exotic and cosmopolitan backdrop to many international films set mostly or entirely in Japan. A common theme of western films set in Japan is the differences between Japanese and Western culture and how the characters cope with their new surroundings.
Post-war period examples include: Tokyo Joe, My Geisha, Tokyo Story and the James Bond film You Only Live Twice; recent examples include Lost in Translation and The Last Samurai (both in 2003), Kill Bill: Volume 1 and 2 and The Day After Tomorrow (all in 2004), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and Babel (both in ...
Teru Shimada (島田輝 Shimada Teru, born Akira Shimada (島田明 Shimada Akira); November 17, 1905 – June 19, 1988) was a Japanese-born American actor.. A Nikkeijin (first-generation Japanese-American), Shimada emigrated to the United States in the early 1930s to follow in the footsteps of his idol Sessue Hayakawa, where he began acting in theatre before finding a steady career playing ...
His stern features led him to be a favorite movie villain, and the outbreak of World War II gave him greater prominence in roles as vicious Japanese soldiers in such successful pictures as The Purple Heart (1944) and God Is My Co-Pilot (1945). Loo was most often typecast as the Japanese enemy pilot, spy or interrogator during World War II.
Tokyo Movie Shinsha Nippon TV: Traditional: Television special: August 2, 1996: 90 minutes, 92 minutes Maya's Life マヤの一生 (Maya no Isshou) Japan: Seijirô Kôyama: Mushi Production: Traditional: Theatrical: August 20, 1996: 70 minutes Miki Mol and the Terrible Cloak Miki Mol i Straszne Płaszczydło: Poland: Ryszard Antoniszczak ...