Japanese War Bride

A wounded Korean War veteran, Jim Sterling (Don Taylor), returns to his California home with his Japanese wife. The couple had met and fallen in love in a Japanese hospital where Tae Shimizu (Shirley Yamaguchi) was working as a nurse. Back in America, the couple face racism and bigotry from their neighbors and family, particularly their sister-in-law, Fran (Marie Windsor).

The widespread publicity surrounding the film's launch made Japanese wives increasingly visible in the United States. Along with The Teahouse of the August Moon and the more successful film Sayonara, Japanese War Bride was argued by some scholars to have increased racial tolerance in the United States by openly discussing interracial marriages.[2]

• Shirley Yamaguchi – Tae Shimizu, a nurse, wife to Jim Sterling
• Don Taylor – Captain Jim Sterling, GI in the Korean War
• Cameron Mitchell – Art Sterling, Jim's older brother
• Marie Windsor – Fran Sterling, Art's wife
• James Bell – Ed Sterling, Jim's father
• Louise Lorimer – Harriet Sterling, Jim's mother
• Philip Ahn – Eitaro Shimizu, Tae's grandfather
• Lane Nakano – Shiro Hasagawa, the Sterlings' Japanese-American neighbor
• May Takasugi – Emma Hasagawa, Shiro's wife
• Sybil Merritt – Emily Shafer, a local girl
• Orley Lindgren – Ted Sterling, Jim's younger brother
• George Wallace – Woody Blacker, a friend of Jim Sterling
• Kathleen Mulqueen – Mrs. Milly Shafer, a friend of Harriet Sterling

• "Story of a Japanese War Bride", The New York Times, January 30, 1952.

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