Three Stripes in the Sun is a 1955 American war film directed by Richard Murphy and starring Aldo Ray, Philip Carey and Dick York.

It is a story of an American sergeant stationed in Japan after World War II who falls for a local girl.

"Nebby" Muhllendorf, are assigned to peacetime Osaka, Japan after the end of World War II.

O'Reilly and Nebby visit the orphanage and, moved by its impoverished conditions, donate money and food.

O'Reilly also develops a romantic interest in a local girl, Yuko, but believes a future together would be difficult.