Sayonara
25/12/1957
2h 27m

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 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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