Brando's brilliantly conceived, Oscar-nominated lead performance provides the dramatic heart of SAYONARA, a poignant outcry against bigotry that received 10 Academy Award nominations and garnered four Oscars. James Garner, Red Buttons and the lovely Miyoshi Umeki co-star in this poignant and powerful film hailed as an enchanting love story.
Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando), 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.