Sayonara
"I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..."
1957-12-25 | 147 minutes
Plot 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.
Cast
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Marlon BrandoMajor Lloyd Gruver
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Patricia OwensEileen Webster
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James GarnerCapt. Mike Bailey
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Martha ScottMrs. Webster
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Miiko TakaHana-ogi
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Miyoshi UmekiKatsumi
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Red ButtonsJoe Kelly
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Kent SmithGen. Webster
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Reiko KubaFumiko-san
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Soo YongTerukosan
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Ricardo MontalbanNakamura
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Dennis HopperMP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)
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Peter BrownSecond Military Police (voice) (uncredited)
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Kenner G. KempGeneral at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
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Ralph MoratzSoldier in Washroom (uncredited)
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