A Majority of One is a 1961 American comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Rosalind Russell and Alec Guinness.

Nevertheless, Bertha has difficulty overcoming her resentment toward the Japanese, "the people who killed her son" during World War II, which will loom large if she is to live in Japan.

Aboard the ship to Tokyo, Bertha meets Koichi Asano, an affable millionaire Japanese Buddhist businessman who is important to Jerry’s diplomatic mission.

When Asano returns her call, Bertha declines his proposal by asserting that it is too soon for courtship; they are both just lonely, still mourning their dead spouses.

Sometime later in New York, Bertha and Asano reunite and agree that enough time has passed so that they can see each other, as he has accepted a post at the United Nations.

Alec Guinness visited Japan days prior to the start of production to study the culture, people and customs.

[5] In his 1994 autobiography, George Takei, a Japanese-American actor who plays a minor role in A Majority of One, wrote that he had been "shocked" at the "grotesquely offensive" latex makeup applied to Guinness's eyes, and by the "incomprehensible gibberish" of his Japanese lines, producing a disappointing and "disastrous" performance.

"[6] Variety declared: "Leonard Spigelgass’ brew of schmaltz and sukiyaki is an outstanding film ... Russell’s Yiddish hex-cent, though at times it sounds like what it is – a Christian imitating a Jew—is close enough to the genuine article.