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Sayonara (1957)

Sayonara (1957)

Drama Romance

"I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..."

Release Date: 1957, December 25
Directors: Joshua Logan
Countries: United States of America
Production: Pennebaker Productions, William Goetz Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast: Marlon Brando, Martha Scott, James Garner, Peter Brown, Dennis Hopper, Miyoshi Umeki, Kenner G. Kemp, William Meader, Ricardo Montalban, Bill Saito, Ralph Moratz, Red Buttons

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book interracial relationship japan racial prejudice post war japan interracial marriage u.s. air force major kabuki air force kobe japan