Sayonara
"I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..."
147 mins
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.
Douglass Watson
Col. Craford
William Meader
General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
Rollin Moriyama
Reporter (uncredited)
Yvonne Peattie
Lady Vice-Consul (uncredited)
Phil Rhodes
Doctor (uncredited)
Audrey Swanson
Officer's Wife (uncredited)
James Michener
Novel
Ellsworth Fredericks
Director of Photography
William Goetz
Producer
Philip W. Anderson
Editor
Robert Priestley
Set Decoration
Norma Koch
Costume Design
Arthur P. Schmidt
Editor
Ted Haworth
Art Direction
Sally Baiano
Casting