Sayonara

The story

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

M Marlon BrandoMajor Lloyd Gruver P Patricia OwensEileen Webster J James GarnerCapt. Mike Bailey M Martha ScottMrs. Webster M Miiko TakaHana-ogi M Miyoshi UmekiKatsumi R Red ButtonsJoe Kelly K Kent SmithGen. Webster D Douglass WatsonCol. Craford R Reiko KubaFumiko-san S Soo YongTerukosan R Ricardo MontalbanNakamura

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D Dennis HopperMP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited) P Peter BrownSecond Military Police (voice) (uncredited) K Kenner G. KempGeneral at Tokyo Airport (uncredited) W William MeaderGeneral at Tokyo Airport (uncredited) R Ralph MoratzSoldier in Washroom (uncredited) R Rollin MoriyamaReporter (uncredited) Y Yvonne PeattieLady Vice-Consul (uncredited) P Phil RhodesDoctor (uncredited) B Bill SaitoPhotographer (uncredited) J James StacyReporter (uncredited) A Audrey SwansonOfficer's Wife (uncredited) H Harlan WardeConsul (uncredited) W William Wellman Jr.Stars and Stripes Reporter (uncredited)