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A slow Marlon Brando film. Brando is an ace USAAF fighter pilot in Korea; he's also very well connected socially. A general has him posted to a sinecure in Tokyo to encourage marriage with his daughter. I found Brando's projection of a hick country boy with unsophisticated philosophies didn't fit the character at all, and made the whole film stiff.
They go to a Kabuki theatre, where all the parts, male and female, are played by male actors. Much of the conversation is taken up with this cultural issue, as a metaphor for the cultural difference between Americans and Japanese. Brando eventually falls in love with a Japanese girl. But mixed marriages were much disapproved of by the hierarchy, and by middle America. The star Kabuki actor has a mild romantic effect on the American female lead, and was played by a Westerner (Ricardo Monalban). It is said that it would have been impossible to show the film with the character played by a Japanese, so soon after the war.
HF January 2002
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