Sayonara
movie

"I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..."
Released December 25, 1957
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.
Cast

Marlon Brando
as
Major Lloyd Gruver

Patricia Owens
as
Eileen Webster

James Garner
as
Capt. Mike Bailey

Martha Scott
as
Mrs. Webster

Miiko Taka
as
Hana-ogi

Miyoshi Umeki
as
Katsumi

Red Buttons
as
Joe Kelly

Kent Smith
as
Gen. Webster
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Douglass Watson
as
Col. Craford

Reiko Kuba
as
Fumiko-san

Soo Yong
as
Terukosan

Ricardo Montalban
as
Nakamura
Crew

Joshua Logan
as
Director

Paul Osborn
as
Screenplay
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James Michener
as
Novel
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Ellsworth Fredericks
as
Director of Photography
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William Goetz
as
Producer

Franz Waxman
as
Original Music Composer
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Philip W. Anderson
as
Editor
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Robert Priestley
as
Set Decoration
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Norma Koch
as
Costume Design
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Arthur P. Schmidt
as
Editor
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Ted Haworth
as
Art Direction
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Sally Baiano
as
Casting