Joe Butterfly
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“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?
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Cast
18 people
Burgess Meredith
Joe Butterfly
Known for
Rocky
Clash of the Titans
Audie Murphy
Pvt. Joe Woodley
Known for
No Name on the Bullet
The Unforgiven
George Nader
Sgt. Ed Kennedy
Known for
Robot Monster
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Keenan Wynn
Harold Hathaway
Known for
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Once Upon a Time in the West
Keiko Shima
Chieko
Also in
Eight Hours of Terror
Hungry Soul, Part II
Fred Clark
Col. E.E. Fuller
Known for
Sunset Boulevard
A Place in the Sun
John Agar
Sgt. Dick Mason
Known for
Tarantula
Revenge of the Creature
Charles McGraw
Sgt. Jim McNulty
Known for
The Birds
The Narrow Margin
Shinpei Shimazaki
Boku
No other roles listed
Reiko Higa
False Tokyo Rose
Also in
The Big Wave
cage
Tatsuo Saitō
Sakayama
Known for
I Was Born, But...
Lord Jim
Chizu Shimazaki
Mother
No other roles listed
Jesse Hibbs Director · Jack Sher Writer Sy Gomberg Writer
Worldwide gross $1.3M · United States release May 29, 1957 · Produced in United States
Box office
Worldwide gross
$1,300,000
Production
Universal International Pictures
Production
Universal Pictures
Studio
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · May 29, 1957
Theatrical
Germany
March 1, 1958 · Theatrical · Universal
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