Sayonara

Sayonara is a 1957 color Technicolor American film starring Marlon Brando. The picture tells the story of an American Air Force flier who was an ace fighter pilot during the Korean War.

Major Lloyd Ace Gruver Marlon Brando, the son of a U.S. Army general, is stationed at Itami Air Force Base near Kobe, Japan. He falls in love with a Japanese entertainer, Hanaogi Miiko Taka, who is a performer for a Takarazukalike theater company, whom he meets through his enlisted crew chief, Airman Joe Kelly Red Buttons.Joe is about to wed a Japanese woman, Katsumi Miyoshi Umeki, in spite of the disapproval of the United States military, which will not recognize the marriage. The Air Force, including Ace, is against the marriage. Ace and Joe have an argument during which Ace uses a racial slur to describe Katsumi. Ace eventually apologizes, then agrees to be Joes best man at the wedding. ........

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