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