Sayonara

6.661

147 minutes

12/25/1957

Overview

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.

Cast List

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
Douglass Watson
as Col. Craford
Reiko Kuba
as Fumiko-san
Soo Yong
as Terukosan
Ricardo Montalban
as Nakamura
Dennis Hopper
as MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)
Peter Brown
as Second Military Police (voice) (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
as General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
William Meader
as General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
Ralph Moratz
as Soldier in Washroom (uncredited)
Rollin Moriyama
as Reporter (uncredited)
Yvonne Peattie
as Lady Vice-Consul (uncredited)
Phil Rhodes
as Doctor (uncredited)
Bill Saito
as Photographer (uncredited)
James Stacy
as Reporter (uncredited)
Audrey Swanson
as Officer's Wife (uncredited)
Harlan Warde
as Consul (uncredited)
William Wellman Jr.
as Stars and Stripes Reporter (uncredited)