The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Teahouse of the August Moon

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- 67/100 based on 3,657 votes
  • Released: 1957
  • Runtime: 123 mins
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  • Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Genres: Comedy

This comedy-drama is partially a gentle satire on America's drive to change the world in the post-war years. One year after World War II, Captain Fisby is sent to the village of Tobiki in Okinawa to teach the people democracy. The first step is to build a school -- but the wily Okinawans know what they really want. They tell him about their culture and traditions -- and persuade him to build something they really want instead: a teahouse. Fisby has a hard time breaking this n... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Teahouse of the August Moon:

Marlon Brando
Glenn Ford
Eddie Albert
Paul Ford
Machiko Kyō
Harry Morgan

Full Plot Details

This comedy-drama is partially a gentle satire on America's drive to change the world in the post-war years. One year after World War II, Captain Fisby is sent to the village of Tobiki in Okinawa to teach the people democracy. The first step is to build a school -- but the wily Okinawans know what they really want. They tell him about their culture and traditions -- and persuade him to build something they really want instead: a teahouse. Fisby has a hard time breaking this news to his superiors.

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Video-Reviewmaster.com - 7/10 by Steve CrumOffbeat Brando role is main reason to see this funny service comedy.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 6/10 by Emanuel LevyHuge commercial hit and uncharacteristically light comedy for Brando, after winning the Oscar for the drama On the Waterfront.
Filmcritic.com - 6/10 by Paul BrennerTime has actually been kind to The Teahouse of the August Moon
User Review - 10/10 by Samantha MThis movie pokes fun at the American view of Japanese culture following WWII and of the reconstruction of Japan following the war. Mostly it is just funny. It also gives me a view of my heritage even if the lens is skewed.
User Review - 10/10 by Audree Li really liked this movie even tho so much of it was in Japanese and i dont know Japanese. i liked Marlon Brando in the role of the interpreter and i wonder if he actually learned Japanese for this part. i also like Glenn Ford. and who knew that Eddie Albert would go on to do Green Acres...probably he came to mind for that role because of his role in this movie! hahahah! i like the gentle Japanese culture. the elegance of their art and i think that came thru in this movie.
User Review - 10/10 by Alex SI was pleasantly surprised with this movie. Your initial perception of the Okinawans is kind of a racist caricature, but that perception slowly changes through the movie and they soon become intelligent and wise. You also gain respect for Brando's acting skills as his Japanese accent is very good as are his mannerisms. I did not find his character to be racially despicable as some others have written. I would also add that I am Japanese-American. This movie is very progressive in its spirit and you actually wonder who conquered who in the end.
User Review - 10/10 by Derick HI was pleasantly surprised with this movie. Your initial perception of the Okinawans is kind of a racist caricature, but that perception slowly changes through the movie and they soon become intelligent and wise. You also gain respect for Brando's acting skills as his Japanese accent is very good as are his mannerisms. I did not find his character to be racially despicable as some others have written. I would also add that I am Japanese-American. This movie is very progressive in its spirit and you actually wonder who conquered who in the end.
User Review - 8/10 by Francis LI enjoy this film quite a bit. Brando's odd casting doesn't affect my impression, since I'm not really a fan of him. Still, I feel that he filled the 'Sakini' role quite well, since I really didn't know it was Brando at first. Glenn Ford (another actor that I do not really know much background about) plays a decent turn as Captain Fisby. Paul Ford's character (and that highly recognizable voice) seems to be directly linked with the Colonel Hall character from the "Sergeant Bilko" television series. And the character fits. Finally, there's Eddie Albert. His role is strikingly different from his characterization of the shell-shocked Colonel Norval Bliss in "Captain Newman, M.D.". In fact, it's practically a complete 180-degree turn - this time playing an enthusiastic psychologist who is thought by Colonel Purdy to have totally 'flipped out'. As for the plot, I find it to be rather interesting that the role of the United States following World War II is portrayed as being the overbearing father of a child that actually knows what they're doing, and is quite capable of manipulating their parent (or overseer) to their own end. Several amusing sequences abound, such as the initial trip to Tobiki (which Brando seems to thoroughly enjoy playing), the 'discovery' of the yam brandy (including 'the goat test', as well as when 'Fisby' is taking orders for "7-Star", "8-Star" and "10-Star" varieties), and Albert's over-the-top botonist trying to get Colonel Purdy to acquire a couple of gardening books. There is the underlying racist portrayal of the villagers (which was apparently not as objectionable 'back then'), but if you can just sit back and enjoy the story for itself, you should be able to place such objectionable content aside, since the characterizations do nothing to either add or subtract from the plot (other than to emphasize the Japanese locale).
User Review - 8/10 by tyler bMarlon Brando plays perhaps the most off-beat role of his career as Sakini, a guileful translator for the American occupation forces on post-WW2 Okinawa who victimizes the hapless Army officers attempting to "reconstruct" his village. Glenn Ford makes an uncharacteristic but passable comedic turn as one of the aforementioned American officers that can be an uncomfortable high-wire act to watch at times when he is routinely out-funnied by his various co-stars, most notably Brando and Paul Ford. Fortunately, he performs the constant state of genial exasperation with enough agility that it avoids becoming tiresome. Make no mistake, however; this is Brando's show and he is fun to watch assuming you can shrug off the minor bugbear that it's a white guy playing an asian character. The film's most admirable quality is the fun it has at the expense of the US Army, given its close proximity to the actual end of the occupation of Japan five years before its release.
User Review - 8/10 by Russell PBrando is miscast. Paul Ford provides some funny moments as the blustery Colonel Purdy.

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