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Sayonara
Release Date: Dec 25, 1957
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Genres: Drama, Romance

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.

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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
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Joshua Logan | Director
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Paul Osborn | Screenplay
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James Michener | Novel
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Ellsworth Fredericks | Director of Photography
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William Goetz | Producer
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Franz Waxman | Original Music Composer