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