Sayonara

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver 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, a by-the-book officer, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man, Joe Kelly, falls in love with a Japanese woman, Katsumi, and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
Release Date: 1957-12-25
Drama
Romance
(138 votes)

Casts

Marlon Brando
as Major Lloyd Gruver
Patricia Owens
as Eileen Webster
James Garner
as Capt. Mike Bailey
Martha Scott
as Mrs. Webster
Miiko Taka
as Hana-ogi
Miyoshi Umeki
as Katsumi
Red Buttons
as Joe Kelly
Kent Smith
as Gen. Webster
Reiko Kuba
as Fumiko-san
Soo Yong
as Terukosan

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