"I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..."
6.691
147 min
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.
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Marlon Brando | Major Lloyd Gruver | Unowned |
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Patricia Owens | Eileen Webster | Unowned |
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James Garner | Capt. Mike Bailey | Unowned |
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Martha Scott | Mrs. Webster | Unowned |
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Miiko Taka | Hana-ogi | Unowned |
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Miyoshi Umeki | Katsumi | Unowned |
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Red Buttons | Joe Kelly | Unowned |
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Kent Smith | Gen. Webster | Unowned |
| Douglass Watson | Col. Craford | Unowned | |
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Reiko Kuba | Fumiko-san | Unowned |
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Soo Yong | Terukosan | Unowned |
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Ricardo Montalban | Nakamura | Unowned |
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Dennis Hopper | MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Peter Brown | Second Military Police (voice) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Kenner G. Kemp | General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited) | Unowned |
| William Meader | General at Tokyo Airport (uncredited) | Unowned | |
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Ralph Moratz | Soldier in Washroom (uncredited) | Unowned |
| Rollin Moriyama | Reporter (uncredited) | Unowned | |
| Yvonne Peattie | Lady Vice-Consul (uncredited) | Unowned | |
| Phil Rhodes | Doctor (uncredited) | Unowned | |
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Bill Saito | Photographer (uncredited) | Unowned |
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James Stacy | Reporter (uncredited) | Unowned |
| Audrey Swanson | Officer's Wife (uncredited) | Unowned | |
| Harlan Warde | Consul (uncredited) | Unowned | |
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William Wellman Jr. | Stars and Stripes Reporter (uncredited) | Unowned |