

"I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..."
December 25, 1957
2h 27m
EN
Joshua Logan
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.

Marlon Brando
Major Lloyd Gruver

Patricia Owens
Eileen Webster

James Garner
Capt. Mike Bailey



James Michener, Paul Osborn
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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
Pennebaker Productions
US
William Goetz Productions
US

Warner Bros. Pictures
US