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Sayonara

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

1957 · NR · 2h 27m

Directed by Joshua Logan

6.7

TMDB audience score
151 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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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)