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Sayonara

65.67 %|Dec 25, 1957|Drama, Romance

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.

Featured Crew

Joshua Logan
Director
James Michener
Novel
Paul Osborn
Screenplay
Arthur P. Schmidt
Editor
Sally Baiano
Casting
William Goetz
Producer
Franz Waxman
Original Music Composer
Philip W. Anderson
Editor

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Cast

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Marlon Brando
Major Lloyd Gruver
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Patricia Owens
Eileen Webster
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James Garner
Capt. Mike Bailey
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Martha Scott
Mrs. Webster
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Miiko Taka
Hana-ogi
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Red Buttons
Joe Kelly
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Kent Smith
Gen. Webster
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Douglass Watson
Col. Craford
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Reiko Kuba
Fumiko-san
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Soo Yong
Terukosan
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Dennis Hopper
MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)
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Peter Brown
Second Military Police (voice) (uncredited)
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Kenner G. Kemp
General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
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William Meader
General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
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Ralph Moratz
Soldier in Washroom (uncredited)
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Rollin Moriyama
Reporter (uncredited)
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Yvonne Peattie
Lady Vice-Consul (uncredited)
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Phil Rhodes
Doctor (uncredited)
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Bill Saito
Photographer (uncredited)
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James Stacy
Reporter (uncredited)
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Audrey Swanson
Officer's Wife (uncredited)
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Harlan Warde
Consul (uncredited)
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William Wellman Jr.
Stars and Stripes Reporter (uncredited)