Sayonara

6.7 1957 2h 27m United States of America

Drama Romance

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.

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

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Directors

Joshua Logan

Writers

James Michener, Paul Osborn

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

Production

Pennebaker Productions, William Goetz Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures

Languages

English, Japanese

Countries

United States of America