Sayonara

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

Dec 20 1957 Approved 2h 27m
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.

Plot

Major Lloyd Gruver, a Korean War flying ace reassigned to Japan, staunchly supports the military's opposition to marriages between American troops and Japanese women. But that's before Gruver experiences a love that challenges his own deeply set prejudices... and plunges him into conflict with the U.S. Air Force and Japan's own cultural taboos.

Written by

Paul Osborn, James A. Michener

Directed by

Joshua Logan

Cast

Marlon Brando, Ricardo Montalban, Patricia Owens

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Pennebaker Productions, William Goetz Productions

Languages

English

Awards

Won 4 Oscars. 8 wins & 18 nominations total

Trailers
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