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Sayonara

"I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..."

  • Movie
  • 1957
  • NR
  • 2h 27m

Directed by Joshua Logan

6.7

TMDB audience rating
6.7 out of 10 from 151 votes

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Overview

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.

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Cast and crew

  • Marlon Brando

    Marlon BrandoMajor Lloyd Gruver

  • Patricia Owens

    Patricia OwensEileen Webster

  • James Garner

    James GarnerCapt. Mike Bailey

  • Martha Scott

    Martha ScottMrs. Webster

  • Miiko Taka

    Miiko TakaHana-ogi

  • Miyoshi Umeki

    Miyoshi UmekiKatsumi

  • Red Buttons

    Red ButtonsJoe Kelly

  • Kent Smith

    Kent SmithGen. Webster

  • Douglass Watson

    Douglass WatsonCol. Craford

  • Reiko Kuba

    Reiko KubaFumiko-san

  • Soo Yong

    Soo YongTerukosan

  • Ricardo Montalban

    Ricardo MontalbanNakamura

  • Dennis Hopper

    Dennis HopperMP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)

  • Peter Brown

    Peter BrownSecond Military Police (voice) (uncredited)

  • Kenner G. Kemp

    Kenner G. KempGeneral at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)

  • William MeaderGeneral at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)

  • Ralph Moratz

    Ralph MoratzSoldier in Washroom (uncredited)

  • Rollin MoriyamaReporter (uncredited)

Director
Joshua Logan
Writer
Paul Osborn and James Michener
Music
Franz Waxman
Cinematography
Ellsworth Fredericks