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Sayonara is a 1957 American romantic drama film directed by Joshua Logan, and starring Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miyoshi Umeki, Red Buttons, Miiko Taka and Ricardo Montalbán. It tells the story of an American Air Force pilot during the Korean War who falls in love with a famous Japanese dancer.
Miiko Taka (高美以子, Taka Miiko) (born Miiko Shikata [1] July 24, 1925 – January 4, 2023) was an American actress, popular for her film and television roles from the late 1950s until the early 1980s.
Sayonara was made into a film of the same name, released in 1957; it was directed by Joshua Logan and featured Marlon Brando and Miiko Taka as Major Gruver and Hana-ogi, respectively. [10] Miyoshi Umeki won an Academy Award in 1958 for her portrayal of Katsumi in that film, [11] which changes the ending to have Gruver marry Hana-ogi at Brando's ...
January 14 – Legendary actor Humphrey Bogart dies at the age of 57 in Los Angeles from esophageal cancer. Best known for his appearances in classic films such as Dead End, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Sabrina, and for To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep co-starring with his wife Lauren Bacall; Bogart was one of the biggest stars of Hollywood's ...
Marlon Brando (1924 – 2004) was an American actor and considered one of the most influential actors of the 20th century. [1]Having studied with Stella Adler in the 1940s, he is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the Stanislavski system of acting, and method acting, to mainstream audiences.
Umeki in a publicity photo for Sayonara (1957) She was best known for her Oscar-winning role as Katsumi in Sayonara (1957), as Mei Li in both the Broadway musical and 1961 film Flower Drum Song, and as Mrs. Livingston in the television series The Courtship of Eddie's Father. She was a shin Issei, or post-1945 immigrant from Japan.
The result was a contract with the studio and a move to Hollywood. Her first American film was Island in the Sun (1957), followed by No Down Payment, both for Fox, after which Owens was lent to Warner Bros. to appear in the critically acclaimed drama Sayonara (1957). [6]
1957 Academy Award winner Miyoshi Umeki James Shigeta (1961) Miyoshi Umeki won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in for Sayonara (1957). In the legacy of Sessue Hayakawa , James Shigeta often in his early career in the late 1950s-1960s played romantic male lead roles even interracial ones, which as an actor of Asian descent during ...