movie

Sayonara

Lists: Drama, Romance, Best Picture nominee 1950 to 1959

Brief Synopsis: "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."

Overall Ranking: - (Rank from 1957: # 0)


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