Joe Butterfly
The Uproarious Saga of Those Hilarious Heroes Who Took Tokyo in a Storm of Laughter with their Riotous Operation Kimono!
1957 · 1h 30m · Approved
Comedy
Directed by
Jesse Hibbs
Overview
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?
Director and cast
- Jesse Hibbs Director
- Burgess Meredith as Joe Butterfly
- Audie Murphy as Pvt. Joe Woodley
- George Nader as Sgt. Ed Kennedy
- Keenan Wynn as Harold Hathaway
- Keiko Shima as Chieko
- Fred Clark as Col. E.E. Fuller
- John Agar as Sgt. Dick Mason
- Charles McGraw as Sgt. Jim McNulty
- Shinpei Shimazaki as Boku
- Reiko Higa as False Tokyo Rose
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