Sayonara

The story

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

Marlon BrandoMajor Lloyd Gruver

Patricia OwensEileen Webster

James GarnerCapt. Mike Bailey

Martha ScottMrs. Webster

Miiko TakaHana-ogi

Miyoshi UmekiKatsumi

Red ButtonsJoe Kelly

Kent SmithGen. Webster

Douglass WatsonCol. Craford

Reiko KubaFumiko-san

Soo YongTerukosan

Ricardo MontalbanNakamura