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Sayonara

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.

1957 |2h 27m |  Drama, Romance

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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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Miyoshi Umeki

Katsumi

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Red Buttons

Joe Kelly

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Kent Smith

Gen. Webster

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Reiko Kuba

Fumiko-san

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Soo Yong

Terukosan

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Ricardo Montalban

Nakamura

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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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Ralph Moratz

Soldier in Washroom (uncredited)

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Bill Saito

Photographer (uncredited)

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James Stacy

Reporter (uncredited)

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Harlan Warde

Consul (uncredited)

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William Wellman Jr.

Stars and Stripes Reporter (uncredited)

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Status

Released

Language

English, Japanese

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