Sayonara (1957)
"I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..."
147 min
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.
- Release date
- December 25, 1957
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Marlon Brando as Major Lloyd Gruver
- Ricardo Montalban as Nakamura
- Patricia Owens as Eileen Webster
- James Garner as Captain Mike Bailey
- Martha Scott as Mrs. Webster
- Miiko Taka as Hana-Ogi
- Miyoshi Umeki as Katsumi
- Red Buttons as Joe Kelly
- Kent Smith as General Mark Webster
- Douglass Watson as Colonel Crawford
Crew
- Joshua Logan · Director
- Paul Osborn · Writer
- James A. Michener · Writer
- William Goetz · Producer
- Franz Waxman · Composer
- Ellsworth Fredericks · Cinematographer
- Philip W. Anderson · Editor
- Arthur P. Schmidt · Editor