27 Jul 1954
The Ditch
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.
Sayonara
"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.
Top Billed Cast
Marlon Brando Major Lloyd Gruver
Patricia Owens Eileen Webster
James Garner Capt. Mike Bailey
Martha Scott Mrs. Webster
Miiko Taka Hana-ogi
Miyoshi Umeki Katsumi
Red Buttons Joe Kelly
Kent Smith Gen. Webster
Douglass Watson Col. Craford
Reiko Kuba Fumiko-san
Soo Yong Terukosan
Ricardo Montalban Nakamura
Dennis Hopper MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)
Peter Brown Second Military Police (voice) (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
William Meader General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
Ralph Moratz Soldier in Washroom (uncredited)
Rollin Moriyama Reporter (uncredited)
Yvonne Peattie Lady Vice-Consul (uncredited)
Phil Rhodes Doctor (uncredited)
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