Story :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.
Cast
Marlon BrandoMajor Lloyd Gruver
Patricia OwensEileen Webster
James GarnerCapt. Mike Bailey
Martha ScottMrs. Webster
Miiko TakaHana-ogi
Miyoshi UmekiKatsumi
Red ButtonsJoe Kelly
Kent SmithGen. Webster
Douglass WatsonCol. Craford
Reiko KubaFumiko-san
Soo YongTerukosan
Ricardo MontalbanNakamura
Dennis HopperMP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)
Peter BrownSecond Military Police (voice) (uncredited)
Kenner G. KempGeneral at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
William MeaderGeneral at Tokyo Airport (uncredited)
Ralph MoratzSoldier in Washroom (uncredited)
Rollin MoriyamaReporter (uncredited)
Yvonne PeattieLady Vice-Consul (uncredited)
Phil RhodesDoctor (uncredited)
Bill SaitoPhotographer (uncredited)
James StacyReporter (uncredited)
Audrey SwansonOfficer's Wife (uncredited)
Harlan WardeConsul (uncredited)
William Wellman Jr.Stars and Stripes Reporter (uncredited)