
Sayonara
- released:1957-12-25
- genres: Drama, Romance
- duration:147m
- casts: Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miiko Taka
- Country: United States of America
- Production: Pennebaker Productions, William Goetz Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
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.