Title: Sayonara (Sayonara)
Release Date: 1957-12-25
IMDB ID: tt0050933
Vote Average: 6.691 (141 votes)
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 (Major Lloyd Gruver), Patricia Owens (Eileen Webster), James Garner (Capt. Mike Bailey), Martha Scott (Mrs. Webster), Miiko Taka (Hana-ogi), Miyoshi Umeki (Katsumi),
Crew: Joshua Logan (Director), Paul Osborn (Screenplay), James Michener (Novel), Ellsworth Fredericks (Director of Photography), William Goetz (Producer), Franz Waxman (Original Music Composer),