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.
Production:
Pennebaker Productions, William Goetz Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
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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

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 Kelly's 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)











