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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… Read more
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1957 · 2h 27m · ★ 38% (14K)
"I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..."
Director: Joshua Logan
Starring: Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner
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.
Joshua Logan
Pennebaker Productions, William Goetz Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miiko Taka, Miyoshi Umeki, Red Buttons, Kent Smith, Douglass Watson, Reiko Kuba, Soo Yong, Ricardo Montalban, Dennis Hopper, Peter Brown, Kenner G. Kemp, William Meader, Ralph Moratz, Rollin Moriyama, Yvonne Peattie, Phil Rhodes