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Sayonara
1957, Dec 25
2h 27m
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.
Directed by
Joshua Logan
Marlon Brando
Major Lloyd Gruver
Dennis Hopper
MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)
James Garner
Capt. Mike Bailey
Ricardo Montalban
Nakamura
Martha Scott
Mrs. Webster
Red Buttons
Joe Kelly
Harlan Warde
Consul (uncredited)
Peter Brown
Second Military Police (voice) (uncredited)
Patricia Owens
Eileen Webster
Kent Smith
Gen. Webster
Miiko Taka
Hana-ogi
Ralph Moratz
Soldier in Washroom (uncredited)
William Wellman Jr.
Stars and Stripes Reporter (uncredited)
James Stacy
Reporter (uncredited)
Soo Yong
Terukosan
Kenner G. Kemp
General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
Miyoshi Umeki
Katsumi
Bill Saito
Photographer (uncredited)
Reiko Kuba
Fumiko-san
Douglass Watson
Col. Craford
William Meader
General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
Rollin Moriyama
Reporter (uncredited)
Yvonne Peattie
Lady Vice-Consul (uncredited)
Phil Rhodes
Doctor (uncredited)
Audrey Swanson
Officer's Wife (uncredited)
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