Sayonara

Sayonara (1957)

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

  • Genre: Drama, Romance
  • Release Date: 1957-12-25
  • User Rating: 6.6/10 from 126 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 27min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Pennebaker Productions
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Joshua Logan
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Summary

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) 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 an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.

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  • Marlon Brando

    as Major Lloyd Gruver

  • Patricia Owens

    as Eileen Webster

  • James Garner

    as Capt. Mike Bailey

  • Martha Scott

    as Mrs. Webster

  • Miiko Taka

    as Hana-ogi

  • Miyoshi Umeki

    as Katsumi

  • Red Buttons

    as Joe Kelly

  • Kent Smith

    as Gen. Webster

  • Douglass Watson

    as Col. Craford

  • Reiko Kuba

    as Fumiko-san

  • Soo Yong

    as Terukosan

  • Ricardo Montalban

    as Nakamura

  • Dennis Hopper

    as MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)

  • Peter Brown

    as Second Military Police (voice) (uncredited)

  • Kenner G. Kemp

    as General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)

  • William Meader

    as General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)

  • Ralph Moratz

    as Soldier in Washroom (uncredited)

  • Rollin Moriyama

    as Reporter (uncredited)

  • Yvonne Peattie

    as Lady Vice-Consul (uncredited)

  • Phil Rhodes

    as Doctor (uncredited)

  • Bill Saito

    as Photographer (uncredited)

  • James Stacy

    as Reporter (uncredited)

  • Audrey Swanson

    as Officer's Wife (uncredited)

  • Harlan Warde

    as Consul (uncredited)

  • William Wellman Jr.

    as Stars and Stripes Reporter (uncredited)
Directing Joshua Logan Director
Writing Paul Osborn Screenplay
Writing James Michener Novel
Camera Ellsworth Fredericks Director of Photography
Production William Goetz Producer
Sound Franz Waxman Original Music Composer
Editing Philip W. Anderson Editor
Art Robert Priestley Set Decoration
Costume & Make-Up Norma Koch Costume Design
Editing Arthur P. Schmidt Editor
Art Ted Haworth Art Direction
Production Sally Baiano Casting

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