Sayonara (1957)

Slooooowwwwww-moving interracial love story. Brandon is a major in the Air Force transferred to Japan during the Korean War. He apparently has no military duties as he's either hanging out at his friends' house (a fellow serviceman and his Japanese bride) or courting the star of a women's acting group disallowed from having relationships with men.

This is a hit-you-over-the-head-with-a-hammer message movie. It would've been better to make it an interesting and well-made movie. A remarkable number of scenes feel like practice runs...as though the actors have forgotten their lines but have been instructed to stick with the scene regardless. And what's with Brando's accent? It sounds like drunken good ol' boy.

There is a sweet romance in this film. Too bad it's the secondary "best friends" story and isn't given the screen-time it deserves.

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