Sayonara (1957)
Movie
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.
Directed By : Joshua Logan
Genres : Drama, Romance
Status : Released
Released : Dec 25, 1957
Tagline : "I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..."
Length : 147 minutes
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.
Crew
- Director : Joshua Logan
- Novel : James Michener
- Screenplay : Paul Osborn
- Original Music Composer : Franz Waxman
- Art Direction : Ted Haworth
- Costume Design : Norma Koch
- Editor : Philip W. Anderson
- Set Decoration : Robert Priestley
- Director of Photography : Ellsworth Fredericks
- Editor : Arthur P. Schmidt
- Producer : William Goetz
- Casting : Sally Baiano