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.

Cast

Marlon Brando

Patricia Owens

James Garner

Martha Scott

Miiko Taka

Miyoshi Umeki

Red Buttons

Kent Smith

Douglass Watson

Reiko Kuba

Soo Yong

Ricardo Montalban

Dennis Hopper

Peter Brown

Kenner G. Kemp

William Meader

Ralph Moratz

Rollin Moriyama

Yvonne Peattie

Phil Rhodes

Bill Saito

James Stacy

Audrey Swanson

Harlan Warde

William Wellman Jr.