Nobody's Perfect (1968 film)
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Plot
After World War II, four somewhat drunk US Navy sailors steal a Buddha statue from a Japanese village, but as they row back to their ship, they hear that the Navy is cracking down against such thefts, so they hide the statue in a cave. Three of the men are transferred, but the fourth, "Doc" Willoughby, sticks around aboard the submarine rescue vessel USS Bustard, based in Japan, much to the seeming exasperation of his captain, Mike Riley. (In reality, Riley thinks well of Willoughby, despite his occasional antics, and keeps persuading him to continue reenlisting.) Over the next 12 years, Willoughby gets promoted and demoted repeatedly, but eventually rises to the rank of chief petty officer.[1]
While on liberty ashore, Willoughby falls for a seemingly demure Japanese girl in a kimono shop, who turns out to be a US Navy Nurse Corps officer of Japanese-American descent, Lieutenant Tomiko Momoyama (Kwan). She discovers she was betrothed as a child to a Japanese man named Toshi (Shigeta), who (after seeing her) fully intends to follow tradition. Toshi's uncle turns out to be from the village from which the statue was taken. Willoughby divides his time between trying to return the statue to the village and wooing Tomiko.[1]
Cast
- Doug McClure - HMC "Doc" Willoughby, USN
- Nancy Kwan - LTjg Tomiko Momoyama, NC, USN
- James Whitmore - LCDR Mike Riley, USN, Commanding Officer of USS Bustard
- James Shigeta - Toshi O'Hara
- Steve Carlson - Johnny Crane
- Jill Donohue - Marci Adler
- David Hartman - Boats McCafferty
- Gary Vinson - Walt Purdy
- George Furth - Hamner
- Keye Luke - Gondai-San
- Edward Faulkner as John Abelard
References
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- 1968 films
- Films based on American novels
- Comedy films about Asian Americans
- 1968 comedy films
- Films set in Japan
- Japan in non-Japanese culture
- 1960s English-language films
- 1960s American films
- English-language comedy films
- Films scored by Irving Gertz