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Where to Watch Sayonara (1957)
"I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..."
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.
DramaRomance 147 min 6.7/10 from 142 votes
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Cast
- Marlon Brando as Major Lloyd Gruver
- Patricia Owens as Eileen Webster
- James Garner as Capt. Mike Bailey
- Martha Scott as Mrs. Webster
- Miiko Taka as Hana-ogi