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.
        
        
                
            Directed by:
                        Joshua Logan                    
        
                
            Starring:
                        Marlon Brando,                        Patricia Owens,                        James Garner,                        Martha Scott,                        Miiko Taka,                        Miyoshi Umeki