Sayonara

Sayonara (1957)

"I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..."

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.

star 6.6 7.0 82%
  • Release Date: 1957-12-25
  • Runtime: 2h 27min
  • Director: Joshua Logan

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    • Trailer

    Cast

    • Marlon Brando

      Major Lloyd Gruver

    • Patricia Owens

      Eileen Webster

    • James Garner

      Capt. Mike Bailey

    • Martha Scott

      Mrs. Webster

    • Miiko Taka

      Hana-ogi

    • Miyoshi Umeki

      Katsumi

    • Red Buttons

      Joe Kelly

    • Kent Smith

      Gen. Webster

    • Douglass Watson

      Col. Craford

    • Reiko Kuba

      Fumiko-san

    • Soo Yong

      Terukosan

    • Ricardo Montalban

      Nakamura

    • Dennis Hopper

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

    • Peter Brown

      Second Military Police (voice) (uncredited)

    • Kenner G. Kemp

      General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)

    • William Meader

      General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)

    • Ralph Moratz

      Soldier in Washroom (uncredited)

    • Rollin Moriyama

      Reporter (uncredited)

    • Yvonne Peattie

      Lady Vice-Consul (uncredited)

    • Phil Rhodes

      Doctor (uncredited)

    • Bill Saito

      Photographer (uncredited)

    • James Stacy

      Reporter (uncredited)

    • Audrey Swanson

      Officer's Wife (uncredited)

    • Harlan Warde

      Consul (uncredited)

    • William Wellman Jr.

      Stars and Stripes Reporter (uncredited)

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