Actually Spaw, I thought that Brando as Sakini was great. The movie is one of our favorites. We lived on Okinawa for 3 years...though I can tell you that Tobiki is not a real place, several real cities & towns are mentioned in the movie. At the crossroads where the meet to old woman with the goat is Awase, not to far from the former site of Camp Lester, where I first learned to play guitar.

--Matt (Socks up, Boss)