Sayonara (1957)
"I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..."
Synopsis
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.
Cast
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Marlon Brando
as Major Lloyd Gruver
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Patricia Owens
as Eileen Webster
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James Garner
as Capt. Mike Bailey
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Martha Scott
as Mrs. Webster
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Miiko Taka
as Hana-ogi
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Miyoshi Umeki
as Katsumi
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Red Buttons
as Joe Kelly
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Kent Smith
as Gen. Webster
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Douglass Watson
as Col. Craford
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Reiko Kuba
as Fumiko-san
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Soo Yong
as Terukosan
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Ricardo Montalban
as Nakamura
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Dennis Hopper
as MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)
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Peter Brown
as Second Military Police (voice) (uncredited)
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Kenner G. Kemp
as General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
- William Meader as General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
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Ralph Moratz
as Soldier in Washroom (uncredited)
- Rollin Moriyama as Reporter (uncredited)
Crew
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Joshua Logan
Director
- Ellsworth Fredericks Director of Photography
- Philip W. Anderson Editor
- Arthur P. Schmidt Editor
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Franz Waxman
Original Music Composer
- William Goetz Producer
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Paul Osborn
Screenplay
