Sayonara
"I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..."
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.
Director Joshua Logan
Trailer
Cast
James Garner
Capt. Mike Bailey
Red Buttons
Joe Kelly
Kent Smith
Gen. Webster
Soo Yong
Terukosan
Dennis Hopper
MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)
Peter Brown
Second Military Police (voice) (uncredited)
Ralph Moratz
Soldier in Washroom (uncredited)
James Stacy
Reporter (uncredited)
Reiko Kuba
Fumiko-san
Bill Saito
Photographer (uncredited)
Miiko Taka
Hana-ogi
Miyoshi Umeki
Katsumi
Ricardo Montalban
Nakamura
Kenner G. Kemp
General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
Marlon Brando
Major Lloyd Gruver
Patricia Owens
Eileen Webster
Martha Scott
Mrs. Webster
William Wellman Jr.
Stars and Stripes Reporter (uncredited)