The Teahouse of the August Moon

A light-hearted comedy about the American occupation of Japanese islands after WW2; it features a misfit captain sent to 'Americanise' a village, and the wily village headman assigned to him as interpreter, who runs rings round him. Instead of building a pentagon-shaped school, the villagers inveigle the captain into building a teahouse, and instead of touristic merchandising, the captain suddenly sees sense in mass-producing the local hooch, and selling it to American bases. Fun and games ensure, amid the attentions of a graceful Geisha, and it's an open bet on how the 'Americanisation' pans out.