Sessue Hayakawa Movies

  • 1953
    Kurama Tengu and Katsu Kaishū

    Kurama Tengu and Katsu Kaishū

    Kurama Tengu and Katsu Kaishū

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    Kurama Tengu and Katsu Kaishū
  • 1961
    The Big Wave

    The Big Wave

    The Big Wave

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    Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves...

    The Big Wave
  • 1950
    Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

    Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

    Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

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    Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
  • 1919
    The Dragon Painter

    The Dragon Painter

    The Dragon Painter

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    A wild man and genius becomes a master painter's disciple, but loses his divine gift when he finds love.

    The Dragon Painter
  • 1921
    Where Lights Are Low

    Where Lights Are Low

    Where Lights Are Low

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    The Chinese prince T'Su Wong Shih loves Quan Yin, the daughter of a gardener, but his uncle wants him to marry a girl of his own class. Leaving to...

    Where Lights Are Low
  • 1950
    Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

    Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

    Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

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    Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
  • 1920
    The Devil's Claim

    The Devil's Claim

    The Devil's Claim

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    A Persian novelist living in New York throws aside the woman who loves him, and she gets an American woman to help get him back. Meanwhile, the...

    The Devil's Claim
  • 1932
    Running Hollywood

    Running Hollywood

    Running Hollywood

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    Running Hollywood is a comedy short.

    Running Hollywood
  • 1918
    Banzai

    Banzai

    Banzai

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    A Liberty Bond fundraising short.

    Banzai
  • 1915
    After Five

    After Five

    After Five

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    Thinking that he has lost both his money and his beloved Nora's in a bad investment young New Yorker Ted Ewing arranges for his own murder. Suddenly...

    After Five
  • 2002
    Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making

    Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making

    Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making

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    A look behind the scenes at Walt Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

    Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
  • 1919
    The Tong Man

    The Tong Man

    The Tong Man

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    An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.

    The Tong Man
  • 1914
    The Typhoon

    The Typhoon

    The Typhoon

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    Tokoramo, a Japanese diplomat on a mission to Paris, begins a love affair with Helene, a chorus girl, who subsequently rejects her American...

    The Typhoon
  • 1937
    Yoshiwara

    Yoshiwara

    Yoshiwara

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    Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love...

    Yoshiwara
  • 1924
    The Great Prince Shan

    The Great Prince Shan

    The Great Prince Shan

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    An assassinated Lord's daughter refuses to marry a Chinese prince but agrees to be his mistress.

    The Great Prince Shan
  • 1943
    Malaria

    Malaria

    Malaria

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    A colonial wife carries on an affair with a French officer, but the wife's native servant may have overheard their plan to leave Africa and return to...

    Malaria
  • 1953
    The Tragic General: Yamashita Tomoyuki

    The Tragic General: Yamashita Tomoyuki

    The Tragic General: Yamashita Tomoyuki

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    When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history of the Ming Dynasty, hokudai Yamashita, left the...

    The Tragic General: Yamashita Tomoyuki
  • 1914
    The Last of the Line

    The Last of the Line

    The Last of the Line

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    Sioux leader Chief Gray Otter sends his son Tiah to the white man's school so that he can become a great leader. The son returns home drunk,...

    The Last of the Line
  • 1918
    Hidden Pearls

    Hidden Pearls

    Hidden Pearls

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    Hawaiian prince Tom Garvin (Sessue Hayakawa) receives an American college education and falls in love with Enid Benton (Florence Vidor).

    Hidden Pearls
  • 1932
    The Sun Rises from the East

    The Sun Rises from the East

    The Sun Rises from the East

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    The Japanese debut film of silent-era star Sessue Hayakawa, in which he not only starred but directed.

    The Sun Rises from the East