Joe Butterfly (1957)
The Uproarious Saga of Those Hilarious Heroes Who Took Tokyo in a Storm of Laughter with their Riotous Operation Kimono!
The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surrender. Their mission: produce an issue of the magazine...in three days. To accomplish the seeming impossible, they reluctantly enlist the aid of black marketeer and arch-conniver Joe Butterfly, who sets them up in a palatial private mansion, complete with lovely daughter -- strictly against regulations. How much trouble can our heroes talk their way out of?
- Date of release
- 1957-05-29
- TMDB
- 5.7 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Jesse Hibbs
Casting
- Burgess Meredith — Joe Butterfly
- Audie Murphy — Pvt. Joe Woodley
- George Nader — Sgt. Ed Kennedy
- Keenan Wynn — Harold Hathaway
- Keiko Shima — Chieko
- Fred Clark — Col. E.E. Fuller
- John Agar — Sgt. Dick Mason
- Charles McGraw — Sgt. Jim McNulty
- Shinpei Shimazaki — Boku
- Reiko Higa — False Tokyo Rose
- Tatsuo Saitō — Sakayama
- Chizu Shimazaki — Mother
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