Sayonara
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.
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Studio: Pennebaker Productions, William Goetz Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Keyword: japan, based on novel or book, u.s. air force, air force, major, interracial relationship, interracial marriage, racial prejudice, post war japan, kabuki, kobe japan
- Cast: Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miiko Taka, Miyoshi Umeki