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.
Marlon Brando | Major Lloyd Gruver |
Miyoshi Umeki | Katsumi |
Ricardo Montalban | Nakamura |
Miiko Taka | Hana-ogi |
Martha Scott | Mrs. Webster |
James Garner | Capt. Mike Bailey |
Kent Smith | Gen. Webster |
Douglass Watson | Col. Craford |
Reiko Kuba | Fumiko-san |
Soo Yong | Terukosan |
Red Buttons | Joe Kelly |
Patricia Owens | Eileen Webster |