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Joe Butterfly

6.519571h 30mMovieComedy

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…

DirectorJesse Hibbs
WritersJack Sher·Sy Gomberg
ProducerAaron Rosenberg

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Cast · Directed by Jesse Hibbs

BMBurgess Meredith
Burgess Meredith
Joe Butterfly
AMAudie Murphy
Audie Murphy
Pvt. Joe Woodley
GNGeorge Nader
George Nader
Sgt. Ed Kennedy
KWKeenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn
Harold Hathaway
KSKeiko Shima
Keiko Shima
Chieko
FCFred Clark
Fred Clark
Col. E.E. Fuller
JAJohn Agar
John Agar
Sgt. Dick Mason
CMCharles McGraw
Charles McGraw
Sgt. Jim McNulty
SS
Shinpei Shimazaki
Boku
RHReiko Higa
Reiko Higa
False Tokyo Rose
TSTatsuo Saitō
Tatsuo Saitō
Sakayama
CS
Chizu Shimazaki
Mother

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Joe Butterfly hasn't started streaming in United Kingdom yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around July 17, 1957. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.