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.

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  Marlon Brando

  Major Lloyd Gruver
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  Patricia Owens

  Eileen Webster
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  James Garner

  Capt. Mike Bailey
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  Martha Scott

  Mrs. Webster
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  Miiko Taka

  Hana-ogi
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  Miyoshi Umeki

  Katsumi
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  Red Buttons

  Joe Kelly
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  Kent Smith

  Gen. Webster
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  Reiko Kuba

  Fumiko-san
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  Soo Yong

  Terukosan