--- title: 'The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)' type: 'film' director: 'Daniel Mann' released: '1956-01-01' runtime_minutes: 123 genres: - 'Comedy' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-teahouse-of-the-august-moon-1956' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049830/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) 1956 · 123 min · Comedy · United States ## Synopsis The Teahouse of the August Moon is a 1956 American comedy film in CinemaScope, directed by Daniel Mann, and starring Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyō, Eddie Albert, and Paul Ford. It is adapted by John Patrick from his 1953 play, in turn based on the 1951 novel by Vern J. Sneider. The film satirizes the U.S. occupation and Americanization of the island of Okinawa following the end of World War II in 1945. ## Credits - **Director:** [Daniel Mann](https://cinepixo.com/people/daniel-mann) - **Producer:** [Jack Cummings](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-cummings) - **Screenplay:** [Vern Sneider](https://cinepixo.com/people/vern-sneider) - **Original Music Composer:** [Saul Chaplin](https://cinepixo.com/people/saul-chaplin) - **Director of Photography:** [John Alton](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-alton) - **Editor:** [Harold F. Kress](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-f-kress) ## Cast - [Alfred Balthoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-balthoff) - [Hans Dieter Zeidler](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-dieter-zeidler) - [Glenn Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/glenn-ford) - [Stanislav Ledinek](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanislav-ledinek) - [Machiko Kyō](https://cinepixo.com/people/machiko-kyo) - [Harry Morgan](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-morgan) - [Eddie Albert](https://cinepixo.com/people/eddie-albert) - [Paul Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-ford) - [Gerd Frickhöffer](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerd-frickhoffer) - [Wolfgang Kieling](https://cinepixo.com/people/wolfgang-kieling) - [Marlon Brando](https://cinepixo.com/people/marlon-brando) - [Jun Negami](https://cinepixo.com/people/jun-negami) - [Arno Paulsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/arno-paulsen) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-teahouse-of-the-august-moon-1956 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1171405); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.