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Sayonara (1957)
Directed by Joshua Logan
Overview
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.
Rated NR | Length 147 minutes
Actors
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.