Sayonara
- Released on
- Runtime
- 147 mins
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.
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
- Marlon Brando
- Patricia Owens
- James Garner
- Martha Scott
- Miiko Taka
- Miyoshi Umeki
- Red Buttons
- Kent Smith
- Douglass Watson
- Reiko Kuba
- Soo Yong
- Ricardo Montalban
- Dennis Hopper
- Peter Brown
- Kenner G. Kemp
- William Meader
- Ralph Moratz
- Rollin Moriyama
- Yvonne Peattie
- Phil Rhodes
- Bill Saito
- James Stacy
- Audrey Swanson
- Harlan Warde
- William Wellman Jr.
Director
- Joshua Logan
Producers
- William Goetz
Screenwriter
- Paul Osborn
