Sayonara

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Marlon Brando Major Lloyd Gruver

Patricia Owens Eileen Webster

James Garner Capt. Mike Bailey

Martha Scott Mrs. Webster

Miiko Taka Hana-ogi