Sayonara (1957)
Drama
Romance
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) 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 an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
Cast
Major Lloyd Gruver
Eileen Webster
Terukosan
Nakamura
MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)
Second Military Police (voice) (uncredited)
General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
Soldier in Washroom (uncredited)
Reporter (uncredited)
Lady Vice-Consul (uncredited)
Doctor (uncredited)
Capt. Mike Bailey
Photographer (uncredited)
Reporter (uncredited)
Officer's Wife (uncredited)
Consul (uncredited)
Stars and Stripes Reporter (uncredited)
Mrs. Webster
Hana-ogi
Katsumi
Joe Kelly
Gen. Webster
Col. Craford
Fumiko-san
Crew
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Screenplay
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Director of Photography
Editor
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