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A Balasaur Score of 73 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7/10, Rotten Tomatoes 82%. Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes82%
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
150 audience votes
Key crew
- Joshua LoganDirector
- Paul OsbornScreenplay
- Franz WaxmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- 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
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Themes
japanbased on novel or booku.s. air forceair forcemajorinterracial relationshipinterracial marriageracial prejudicepost war japankabukikobe japan