Joe Butterfly is a 1957 American comedy film directed by Jesse Hibbs starring Audie Murphy, George Nader and Keenan Wynn, with Burgess Meredith in the title role as a Japanese man.

[2] The movie was action star Murphy's only outright comedy, and it suffered by comparison to the similar Teahouse of the August Moon, released seven months earlier.

[4] The film follows the staff of the Army weekly magazine Yank, who are among the first American troops in Tokyo after Japan's surrender.

Short on ideas and having to meet the deadline, they enter Japan's black market and come across con artist Joe Butterfly.

[8] The original choice for the title character was meant to be David Wayne who had appeared as Sakini in the stage production of Teahouse of the August Moon.