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Stopover Tokyo

Stopover Tokyo

1957Movie⏱️ 1h 40mApproved
CrimeDramaMysteryThriller
5.6
IMDB Rating
367 votes

An American intelligence agent is sent to Tokyo to track down a Communist spy ring.

Director
Richard L. Breen
Writers
Richard L. Breen, Walter Reisch, John P. Marquand
Stars
Robert Wagner, Joan Collins, Edmond O'Brien
Release Date
January 24, 1958
Language
English, Japanese
Country
United States
💬 12
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Robert Wagner
Robert Wagner
as Mark Fannon
Joan Collins
Joan Collins
as Tina Llewellyn
Edmond O'Brien
Edmond O'Brien
as George Underwood
Ken Scott
Ken Scott
as Tony Barrett
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Reiko Oyama
as Koko
Larry Keating
Larry Keating
as High Commissioner
Sarah Selby
Sarah Selby
as High Commissioner's Wife
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Yuki Kaneko
as Baya
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Yô Kinoshita
as Customs Agent
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Yoshitaka Kusunoki
as Announcer

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
2.35 : 1
Color
Color
Filming Location
Tokyo, Japan
Production
Twentieth Century Fox

🏷️ Keywords

cold war propagandaanti communismamerican in tokyoreference to the communistsamerican in japan

🎯 Categories

CrimeDramaMysteryThriller

⭐ Featured Review

Correcting one comment
by michael.e.barrett2007-07-28

"What the previous commenter says about the movie is basically true--this is simply an escapist picture-postcard movie with a bad, clumsy script. The action, what there is of it, makes no particular sense and the romance is dull and pointless. Some lines of dialogue, like the one about "no paragraph about Welshmen" (used twice!) are actually stupid. However, the commenter also went over the top himself when discussing the movie's condescension. Robert Wagner doesn't say "Ah, Madame Butterfly" to a waitress. She's not a waitress, she's a famous Japanese di..."

💡 Did You Know?

This movie was based on the last of the "Mr. Moto" novels, "Stopover Tokyo", published in 1955, featuring a middle-aged Moto. This movie version deleted the Moto character entirely.

📖 Synopsis

An American intelligence agent is sent to Tokyo to track down a Communist spy ring.