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Sayonara (1957) (Blu-Ray) (*)

$24.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
David Donatello Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Linear PCM )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Linear PCM )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
146 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1957 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Joshua Logan

Written By:
Paul Osborn
James Michener

Actors:
Marlon Brando ..... Major Gruver
Patricia Owens ..... Eileen Webster
Red Buttons ..... Joe Kelly
Miiko Taka ..... Hana-Ogi
Ricardo Montalban ..... Nakamura
Martha Scott ..... Mrs. Webster
Miyoshi Umeki ..... Katsumi
James Garner ..... Captain Bailey
Kent Smith ..... General Webster
Douglass Watson ..... Colonel Crawford
Reiko Kuba ..... Fumiko-San
Soo Yong ..... Teruko-San
Shochiku Kagekidan Girls Revue

Synopsis:

Lloyd 'Ace' Gruver, a major and the son of a U.S. Army general, is stationed at Itami Air Force Base (now Osaka International Airport) near Kobe, Japan. He falls in love with a Japanese entertainer (Hana-ogi) who is a performer for a Takarazuka-like theater company, whom he meets through his enlisted crew chief, Airman Kelly. Kelly is about to wed a Japanese woman, Katsumi, in spite of the disapproval of the United States military, which will not recognize the marriage. The Air Force, including Gruver, is against the marriage. Gruver and Kelly have an argument during which Gruver uses a racial slur to describe Kelly's fiancee. Gruver eventually apologizes, then agrees to be Kelly's best man at the wedding. Kelly suffers further prejudice at the hands of a particularly nasty colonel, pulling extra duty and all the less-attractive assignments. When he and many others who are married to Japanese are ordered back to the States, Kelly realizes he will not be able to take his wife, who is now pregnant. Finding no other way to be together, Kelly and Katsumi commit double suicide. This strengthens Major Gruver's resolve to marry his own Japanese lover. When asked by a Stars and Stripes reporter what will he say to both the 'big brass' as well as to the Japanese, neither of which will be particularly happy, Major Gruver says, 'Tell 'em we said 'Sayonara.''

Major Lloyd Gruver, a Korean War flying ace reassigned to Japan, staunchly supports the military's opposition to marriages between American troops and Japanese women. But that's before Gruver experiences a love that challenges his own deeply set prejudices... and plunges him into conflict with the U.S. Air Force and Japan's own cultural taboos.

The romance of a U.S. Air Force Officer and a Japanese dancer, and their ultimate marriage, following the tragic deaths of their close friends, an American serviceman and his native wife, victims of deep racial prejudice.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 19 December, 2024.