Sayonara

Sayonara

147 mins | Drama, Romance | Dec. 25, 1957

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.

Sayonara

147 mins | Drama, Romance | Dec. 25, 1957

Sayonara
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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers William Goetz Productions, Pennebaker Productions
Original title Sayonara
Directors Joshua Logan
Writers James Michener, Paul Osborn

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

Dennis Hopper

as MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)

Peter Brown

as Second Military Police (voice) (uncredited)

Kenner G. Kemp

as General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)

William Meader

as General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)

Ralph Moratz

as Soldier in Washroom (uncredited)

Rollin Moriyama

as Reporter (uncredited)

Yvonne Peattie

as Lady Vice-Consul (uncredited)

Phil Rhodes

as Doctor (uncredited)

Bill Saito

as Photographer (uncredited)

James Stacy

as Reporter (uncredited)

Audrey Swanson

as Officer's Wife (uncredited)

Harlan Warde

as Consul (uncredited)

William Wellman Jr.

as Stars and Stripes Reporter (uncredited)