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