Sayonara

Sayonara is a movie that takes place in Japan where two military officials are stationed. One of them is Major Gruver from graduated from west point and the other airman Joe. Gruver is the son of a general who has forever been engaged to another general's daughter and is going there because her father wants him to marry her. Joe is excited to go there because his girlfriend is there and he plans to marry her, at this time it was frowned upon for them to do so but he does not care as he is in love with her and wants nothing else but to be with her. Gruver tries to talk him out of it and when he realizes he can't he agrees to be his witness. 
Once in Japan Joe gets married and Gruver is reunited with his girl again, he is happy to see her but she is not completely satisfied since he tells her that he wants a girl like her but not her as person. She is afraid that her life will turn out to be like her mothers and his mothers and she doesn't want that, he lets her know that its his career and that is what awaits for them. She distances herself from him and that gives him a reason to start wandering. He starts hanging out with a captain that likes Japanese girls and once he saw Hana-ogi is like love at first sight and asks for favor so he can meet her. Hana doesn't talk to Americans because her father was killed by one, Gruver doesn't let this stop him and he pursues her almost everyday for a long time until she notices him. Once she notices him the liking is mutual and one day Joe and his wife invite them both for diner. Gruver and Hana start seeing each other after she realized that not all white men are bad. They fall in love with each other and Gruver later finds out that he is being watched, he is warned by his now ex girlfriend (who is also seeing a Japanese man at this point). Gruver doesn't care what other people think and even tell the general that he wants to marry a Japanese girl. 
Joe is to be stationed somewhere else away from his wife and as per military rules they cannot take their Japanese wives. The general explains that moving soldiers gives them a chance to start new since a lot of them married Japanese girls because it was the first girls they had seemed in months and not because they were in love or wanted a family with them. 
Joe, his wife, Gruver and Hana go on a double date to watch a Japanese play the night before he is to leave and its about how if couples can't be together they rather die so they can be together in the after life. Gruver is told that Joe cannot be found the day he is to leave, he goes looking for him only to find him dead with his wife. Around this same time he learns that Hana has left to Tokyo to keep dancing there and eventually be a dance teacher after she told him that they cannot get married and she is to stay single. Gruver goes looking for her, by this time they story is known to the locals who are also in a way their fans. Before he parts the general gives the news to Gruver that a law will be passed in a few months that allows them to marry Japanese girls and take them abroad with them. Gruver doesn't take no for an answer when he sees Hana and tells her that they will get married. 
The theme for this movie is the hardships that people from two different cultures face when they fall in love and the lengths they go through in order to stay together.
When this movie started I had no idea what it was about but when Gruver's girlfriend was with him I knew something was not right because he did not seem like she was his world. After meeting Hana his eyes changed and it was obvious that she was everything he always wanted. I loved how persistent he was in getting her and knowing that he wanted to marry her right away. I also think that stories sucks as Joe's needed to happen in order for things to change, in this case for a law to pass.