Marlon Brando leads this Oscar-winning WWII drama about the racial tensions that arise when a US military man falls in...
Marlon Brando leads this Oscar-winning WWII drama about the racial tensions that arise when a US military man falls in love with a Japanese woman.
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (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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- Award winner
- Best Director, Supporting Actress (Miyoshi Umeki), Art Direction & Sound, Academy Awards 1958; Best Supporting Actor (Red Buttons) & Most Promising Newcomer (James Garner), Golden Globes 1958
- Runtime
- 147
- Genre
- Drama, Romance, War
- Country of origin
- USA