Sayonara

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.

• Joshua LoganDirector
• Paul OsbornScreenplay
• Franz WaxmanOriginal Music Composer

• 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