An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.

Humphrey Bogart
as Colonel Joseph 'Joe' Barrett

Alexander Knox
as Mark Landis

Florence Marly
as Trina Pechinkov Landis

Sessue Hayakawa
as Baron Kimura

Jerome Courtland
as Danny

Gordon Jones
as Idaho

Teru Shimada
as Ito

Hideo Mori
as Kanda

Charles Meredith
as General Ireton

Rhys Williams
as Colonel Dahlgren