Sayonara

movie

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.

Cast & crew

Douglass Watson · James Garner · Kent Smith · Marlon Brando · Martha Scott · Miiko Taka · Miyoshi Umeki · Patricia Owens · Red Buttons · Reiko Kuba · Joshua Logan · Paul Osborn

Studios & networks

Pennebaker Productions · Warner Bros. Pictures · William Goetz Productions