A somewhat anaemic Casablanca in Japan benefits from the novelty value of its setting and pro-Japanese intentions and an unexpectedly downbeat (though exciting) finale. A last 'here's looking at you kid' from Bogie to his daughter would have been too much.
Bogie must have bought into the material as the film's made by his own production company Santana.
With Alexander Knox, Florence Marly (partly where the anaemia sets in), Sessue Hayakawa, Jerome Courtland, Gordon Jones, Teru Shimada, Hideo Mori, Whit Bissell.
DP Charles Lawton, music George Anthiel, editor Viola Lawrence. Interesting art direction / sets, Robert Peterson / James Crowe. Some of it is actually Tokyo, I'm told, though suspected at the time it was Chinatown, San Francisco.
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