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Sayonara(Movie, 1957)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 27min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love
SayonaraRating: 3.4/5 (with 5454 votes)
Sayonara is a 1957 American romantic drama film directed by Joshua Logan, and starring Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miyoshi Umeki, Red Buttons, Miiko Taka and Ricardo Montalbán. It tells the story of an American Air Force pilot during the Korean War who falls in love with a famous Japanese dancer. The screenplay was adapted by Paul Osborn from James A. Michener's 1954 novel of the same name. Unlike many 1950s romantic dramas, Sayonara deals squarely with racism and prejudice. The picture was released by Warner Bros. on December 2... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Sayonara

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Sound

About Sayonara

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) 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 an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Shot in: Japan
Plays in: Japan
Based on: "Sayonara" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Japanese (JA)
Translated into 17 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovenian (SL), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 02/27/1958 (World premiere: 12/25/1957)
Director: Joshua Logan
Producer: William Goetz
Screenwriter: Paul Osborn
Film Editor: Arthur P. Schmidt
Director of Photography: Ellsworth Fredericks
Composer: Franz Waxman
Costume designer: Norma Koch
Production Designer: Ted Haworth
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Amber, die große Kurtisane"

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Other movies with this title: Sayonara (FR/JP, 2015), Sayonara (BR, 2021)

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