Sayonara

Sayonara

Released on
Drama, Romance
Runtime
147 mins
(126 votes)

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

  • 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

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