Sayonara

“"I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..."”

Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando), a by-the-book Air Force pilot, wants only to keep his career and his engagement to Eileen Webster (Patricia Owens) on course. Then he is reassigned to a Japanese air base during the Korean War, where military policy forbids the romances his fellow soldiers are forming. Joshua Logan keeps Gruver in his pressed uniform and rigid posture, a man holding himself still against everything around him.