| Stopover Tokyo | |
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| Directed by | Richard L. Breen |
| Produced by | Walter Reisch |
| Written by | Richard L. Breen Walter Reisch (screenplay John P. Marquand (novel) |
| Starring | Robert Wagner Joan Collins Edmond O'Brien Ken Scott |
| Music by | Edward B. Powell |
| Cinematography | Charles G. Clarke |
| Editing by | Marjorie Fowler |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | December 1957 |
| Running time | 100 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,055,000[1] |
| Box office | $1,350,000 (US rentals)[2] |
Stopover Tokyo is a 1957 American espionage drama directed by Richard L. Breen and starring Robert Wagner, Joan Collins, Edmond O'Brien and Ken Scott. Filmed in Japan in CinemaScope, the film is set in Tokyo and follows a US counterintelligence agent foiling a communist assassination plot.
The film is based very loosely on final Mr. Moto novel by John P. Marquand's called, Right You Are, Mr. Moto. The biggest change is that Me. Moto is entirely cut from the film.
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US Intelligence Agent Mark Fannon (Robert Wagner) is sent to Tokyo on a routine courier mission but soon uncovers communist George Underwood’s (Edmond O'Brien) plot to assassinate the American High Commissioner (Larry Keating).
Whilst there he meets Welsh receptionist (Joan Collins) who fellow agent Tony Barrett (Ken Scott) has the hots for. Though this causes initial animosity between the two they manage to race against the clock to foil the assassination.
Cinematographer Charles G. Clarke made expansive use of location shooting in Kyoto. The city was not bombed in World War II due to the fact no war industries had been located there, the city being a sacred Shinto area and retained its Japanese character.