• Director: Joshua Logan
  • Release Year: 1957
  • Production Country: United States
  • Language: English, Japanese
  • Run Time: 147 minutes

Sayonara

Description

An Army colonel stationed in Japan believes absolutely in the military's ban against intermarriage between U.S. servicemen and Japanese women; however, he finds his belief challenged by his own growing affection for a local dancer and by the actions of one of his servicemen, a man who was transferred home but not allowed to bring his pregnant Japanese wife with him.

Themes

Korean War (1950 – 1953), Race relations, Cultural conflicts, Morals and taboos, Tradition and culture, Cross-cultural interaction