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Drama / Romance

Sayonara

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

19572h 27mNR 6.7/ 10

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 BrandoMajor Lloyd Gruver
  • Patricia OwensEileen Webster
  • James GarnerCapt. Mike Bailey
  • Martha ScottMrs. Webster
  • Miiko TakaHana-ogi
  • Miyoshi UmekiKatsumi
  • Red ButtonsJoe Kelly
  • Kent SmithGen. Webster
  • Douglass WatsonCol. Craford
  • Reiko KubaFumiko-san
  • Soo YongTerukosan
  • Ricardo MontalbanNakamura
  • Dennis HopperMP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)
  • Peter BrownSecond Military Police (voice) (uncredited)
  • Kenner G. KempGeneral at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
  • W
    William MeaderGeneral at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)

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