Teahouse of the August Moon, The - (Original Movie Promo)

Teahouse of the August Moon, The - (Original Trailer)

Marlon Brando plays an Okinawan interpreter for the occupying U.S. Army in the comedy The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956).

Teahouse Of The August Moon, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Okinawa, 1946

The same opening as the long-running Broadway hit, Marlon Brando as the Okinawan interpreter Sakini (played on stage by David Wayne), from playwright John Patrick’s adapted screenplay, from The Teahouse Of The August Moon, 1956, also starring Glenn Ford

Teahouse Of The August Moon, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Pentagon-shaped

Sent with native interpreter Sakini (Marlon Brando) to a post-World War Two Okinawan village to build a school and social club, clumsy Captain Fisby (Glenn Ford) of the American occupying force takes a shot at explaining democracy, in The Teahouse Of The August Moon, 1956.

Teahouse Of The August Moon, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) How Did You Get Into Psychological Warfare?

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.