Sayonara

Name: Sayonara
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1957-12-25
Duration: 2 h 27 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miiko Taka

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

Sayonara (1957)

Timing: 2:27 (147 min)

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Video for the film Sayonara — Sayonara (1957) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

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Release date

1957-12-25

Country

United States

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Pennebaker Productions, William Goetz Productions

Genre

Drama, Romance

Budget

Box office

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Director

Joshua Logan

Actors

Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miiko Taka, Miyoshi Umeki, Red Buttons, Kent Smith, Douglass Watson, Reiko Kuba
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Scenario

Producer

William Goetz

Camera operator

Ellsworth Fredericks

Composer

Franz Waxman

Artist

Audition

Sally Baiano

Editing

Arthur P. Schmidt, Philip W. Anderson
Whole Team (12)

Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

Despite the wishes of the director and producers, Brando insisted that his character speak with a Southern accent in the film.
For Japanese actress Miyoshi Umeki, the role in this film was her debut.
Marlon Brando was not the first choice for the lead role. Rock Hudson and William Holden also aspired to it, the latter of whom chose to star in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957).