Film

Joe Butterfly

1957 · 1h 30m · Comedy

The Uproarious Saga of Those Hilarious Heroes Who Took Tokyo in a Storm of Laughter with their Riotous Operation Kimono!

IMDb

5.9

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?

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

Herbert Anderson

Maj. Ferguson

Eddie Firestone

Sgt. Oscar Hulick

Frank Chase

Yeo. Saul Bernheim

Harold Goodwin

Col. Hopper

• Jesse HibbsDirector
• Sy GombergWriter
• Marion HargroveWriter
• Jack SherWriter
• Aaron RosenbergProducer
• Irving GlassbergDirector of Photography
• Milton CarruthEditor

Release date

May 29, 1957

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

12

Genres

Comedy

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