Stopover Tokyo

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. US Intelligence Agent Mark Fannon is sent to Tokyo on a routine courier mission but soon uncovers communist George... Underwood’s plot to assassinate the American High Commissioner . Whilst there he meets Welsh receptionist who fellow agent Tony Barrett 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.
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