Sayonara

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

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.

Drama Romance

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)

Red Buttons

(Joe Kelly)

Kent Smith

(Gen. Webster)

Douglass Watson

(Col. Craford)

Reiko Kuba

(Fumiko-san)

Soo Yong

(Terukosan)

Ricardo Montalban

(Nakamura)

Dennis Hopper

(MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited))

Peter Brown

(Second Military Police (voice) (uncredited))

Kenner G. Kemp

(General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited))

William Meader

(General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited))

Ralph Moratz

(Soldier in Washroom (uncredited))

Rollin Moriyama

(Reporter (uncredited))

Yvonne Peattie

(Lady Vice-Consul (uncredited))

Phil Rhodes

(Doctor (uncredited))

Bill Saito

(Photographer (uncredited))

James Stacy

(Reporter (uncredited))

Audrey Swanson

(Officer's Wife (uncredited))

Harlan Warde

(Consul (uncredited))

William Wellman Jr.

(Stars and Stripes Reporter (uncredited))