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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Sayonara was released in 1957 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 73 reviews, giving Sayonara (1957) an average rating of 71%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 85%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 73%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Sayonara than critics were.
With a score of 71%, Sayonara is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1957, which stands at 60%.
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