Marlon Brando
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- 1956 · Comedy · 2h 3m
The Teahouse of the August Moon is a 1956 American comedy film directed by Daniel Mann and starring Marlon Brando. It satirizes the U.S. occupation and Americanization of the island of Okinawa following the end of World War II in 1945.
The Teahouse of the August Moon: Directed by Daniel Mann. With Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyô, Eddie Albert. In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.
- (3.8K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Daniel Mann
- 1956-12
Native Okinawan servant Sakini (Marlon Brando) running circles around the American occupiers, in this case blowhard Colonel Purdy (Paul Ford), who receives new man Fisby (co-star Glenn Ford), in whom he’s immediately disappointed, in The Teahouse Of The August Moon, 1956.
- Daniel Mann, Al Jennings, William Shanks
- Marlon Brando
The Teahouse of the August Moon is a 1953 play written by John Patrick adapted from the 1951 novel by Vern Sneider. The play was later adapted for film in 1956, and the 1970 Broadway musical Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen. The play opened on Broadway in October 1953.
- Vern Sneider
- 1951
The Teahouse of the August Moon. In the months immediately after the end of World War II, the U.S. Army has occupied the island of Okinawa, Japan, and is trying to Westernize the local population.
- (63)
- Marlon Brando
- Daniel Mann
- Comedy
In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead. This comedy-drama is partially a gentle satire on America's drive to change the world in the post-war years.
Teahouse of the August Moon, comedy in three acts by American playwright John Patrick, produced in 1953. Patrick satirized American good intentions in this lighthearted examination of an attempt by the military forces to Americanize a foreign culture.
