Sayonara

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.

Genres:

Drama, Romance

Release:

Dec 25, 1957

Production:

Pennebaker Productions , William Goetz Productions , Warner Bros. Pictures

Casts:

Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miiko Taka, Miyoshi Umeki, Red Buttons, Kent Smith, Douglass Watson, Reiko Kuba, Soo Yong, Ricardo Montalban, Dennis Hopper, Peter Brown, Kenner G. Kemp, William Meader, Ralph Moratz, Rollin Moriyama, Yvonne Peattie, Phil Rhodes, Bill Saito, James Stacy, Audrey Swanson, Harlan Warde, William Wellman Jr.