Sayonara
Sayonara
Release: 1957-12-25
·Runtime: 147m
·★ 6.7
Drama
Romance
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Pennebaker Productions
William Goetz Productions
Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast
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
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)
Ralph Moratz
as Soldier in Washroom (uncredited)
Bill Saito
as Photographer (uncredited)
James Stacy
as Reporter (uncredited)
Harlan Warde
as Consul (uncredited)
William Wellman Jr.
as Stars and Stripes Reporter (uncredited)
