Sayonara (1957)iMDB Rating: 7.2Date Released : 20 December 1957
Genre : Drama, Romance
Stars : Marlon Brando, Ricardo Montalban, Patricia Owens, Red Buttons
Movie Quality : BRrip
Format : MKV
Size : 700 MB
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Major Lloyd Gruver, a Korean War flying ace reassigned to Japan, staunchly supports the military's opposition to marriages between American troops and Japanese women. But that's before Gruver experiences a love that challenges his own deeply set prejudices... and plunges him into conflict with the U.S. Air Force and Japan's own cultural taboos.
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Review :
Post-war attempt to re-humanize the Japanese
Showing that we needed them to such an extent in the fight against communism that it might even be permissible to fall in love with one.
The movie is memorable for some great lines from Brando: "Hell, I ain't got nothing against the Japanese... well, not now anyway." and for the astonishing casting of Ricardo Montalban as Kabuki grandmaster Nakamura Jakoemon II (actually he was pretty good in the part except for the Spanish accent).
The young Brando is excellent in his fidgeting, distracted way. Scenes of 1950s Japan are also interesting. But the film predictably suffers from a romanticized vision of Japanese women (delicate, doll-like creatures who wish for nothing more than to scrub their husbands' back in the tub), and of Japanese life (the 'little house down by the canal' that Kelly and his Japanese wife move into is a museum-quality example of the Japanese wooden and paper-wall house, complete with internal Zen garden).
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