Movie
Sayonara
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1957-12-25
- Runtime
- 147 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Pennebaker Productions, William Goetz Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- 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
- Douglass Watson as Col. Craford
- Reiko Kuba as Fumiko-san
- Soo Yong as Terukosan
- Ricardo Montalban as Nakamura
Crew
- Joshua Logan - Director
- Paul Osborn - Screenplay
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