Sayonara

2h 27m

6.6

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.

Cast

Major Lloyd Gruver

Capt. Mike Bailey

Douglass Watson

Ricardo Montalban

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

Second Military Police (voice) (uncredited)

General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)

General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)

Soldier in Washroom (uncredited)

Rollin Moriyama

Reporter (uncredited)

Lady Vice-Consul (uncredited)

Doctor (uncredited)

Photographer (uncredited)

Reporter (uncredited)

Officer's Wife (uncredited)

Consul (uncredited)

William Wellman Jr.

Stars and Stripes Reporter (uncredited)

Crew

Philip W. Anderson

Arthur P. Schmidt

Ellsworth Fredericks

Director of Photography

Original Music Composer

Robert Priestley