"I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..."
Overview
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.
Cast
Marlon Brando
Major Lloyd Gruver
Patricia Owens
Eileen Webster
James Garner
Capt. Mike Bailey
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
Soo Yong
Terukosan
Ricardo Montalban
Nakamura
Dennis Hopper
MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)
Peter Brown
Second Military Police (voice) (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
William Meader
General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
Ralph Moratz
Soldier in Washroom (uncredited)
Rollin Moriyama
Reporter (uncredited)
Yvonne Peattie
Lady Vice-Consul (uncredited)
Phil Rhodes
Doctor (uncredited)
Bill Saito
Photographer (uncredited)
James Stacy
Reporter (uncredited)
Audrey Swanson
Officer's Wife (uncredited)
Harlan Warde
Consul (uncredited)
William Wellman Jr.
Stars and Stripes Reporter (uncredited)
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Compulsion
Bessie
Return to Glennascaul
Rollerball
The Crime of Padre Amaro
Arizona Dream
Love Story
The Deep End of the Ocean
Last Tango in Paris
The Young Victoria
The Way of the Dragon
Let It Snow
The Whole Truth
All the President's Men
The Family
Paths of Glory
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Breakfast at Tiffany's