Hayakawa (Japanese: 早川 金太郎, Hepburn: Hayakawa Kintarō, June 10, 1886 – November 23, 1973), known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa (早川 雪洲, Hayakawa Sesshū)...
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Sessue Hayakawa (June 10, 1886 – November 23, 1973) was one of the first Asian actors and filmmakers to gain great fame and success in the United States...
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Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom is a biography of actor Sessue Hayakawa, written by Daisuke Miyao, assistant professor of film...
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Toshiro Mifune (section Filmography)
classics became the first Japanese actor since Sessue Hayakawa to have international fame. But where Hayakawa became a sex symbol because he was romantic...
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silent drama film directed by George Osborne and featuring Tsuru Aoki, Sessue Hayakawa, John Keller, Joe Goodboy and J. Barney Sherry in important roles....
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French drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Conrad Veidt, Sessue Hayakawa and Madeleine Robinson. Oswald had left Austria as it became an increasingly...
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Henry Herbert (actor) (section Partial filmography)
Still of Herbert (left) with Sessue Hayakawa and Myrtle Stedman in Black Roses, 1921...
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a 1920 American film directed by Joseph De Grasse and produced by Sessue Hayakawa's Haworth Pictures Corporation. Although the main characters are a matador...
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Shimon Wincelberg (section Filmography)
Broadway playwright. He wrote the 1959 Broadway play Kataki starring Sessue Hayakawa and Ben Piazza. Wincelberg was born in Kiel, Germany. His family fled...
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Tsuru Aoki (redirect from Tsuruko Hayakawa)
woman portrayed by Aoki. The film also starred Sessue Hayakawa and featured actress Gladys Brockwell. Hayakawa and Aoki eventually made more than 20 films...
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Nagisa Ōshima (section Filmography)
create a biopic entitled Hollywood Zen based on the life of Issei actor Sessue Hayakawa. The script had been allegedly completed and set to film in Los Angeles...
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Yutaka Abe (section Filmography)
appeared in such films as The Wrath of the Gods and The Cheat with Sessue Hayakawa. He was often billed as "Jack Abbe" or "Jack Yutake Abbe." He returned...
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melodramas, action pictures, and comedic shorts. Pauline Frederick and Sessue Hayakawa were the major stars of its R-C period. Subsequently, Evelyn Brent...
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Clements - Dan Martin Sessue Hayakawa - Lin Foo Alice Knowland - Mrs. Martin Thomas Meighan - Jack Herron Blanche Sweet filmography The Secret Sin at silentera...
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Haworth Pictures Corporation (section Filmography)
Pictures Corporation was a film studio established by Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa in March 1918. Haworth Pictures Corporation was Hollywood’s first Asian-owned...
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Teru Shimada (section Filmography)
United States in the early 1930s to follow in the footsteps of his idol Sessue Hayakawa, where he began acting in theatre before finding a steady career playing...
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silent short drama film directed by Reginald Barker and Thomas H. Ince. Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Frank Borzage and Henry Kotani played important roles...
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Walter Stradling (section Partial filmography)
company in general. He also worked on the films of Cecil B. DeMille, Sessue Hayakawa and Blanche Sweet. Stradling died relatively young at 43 in the 1918...
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(voice of Geppetto in Pinocchio), (d. 1956).[citation needed] June 10: Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (voice of the Mole in The Daydreamer), (d. 1973). July...
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Fannie Ward (section Filmography)
perform in The Cheat, a silent film melodrama co-starring Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa. The film proved to be a sensation due to its plot mingling of racial...
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Jeanie MacPherson (section Filmography)
the Golden West starring Mabel Van Buren, The Cheat (1915) starring Sessue Hayakawa, The Golden Chance (1915) starring Wallace Reid, Joan the Woman (1916)...
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Anna May Wong (section Partial filmography)
era, Sessue Hayakawa. Though she was given the starring role, this status was not reflected in her paycheck: she was paid $6,000, while Hayakawa received...
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Rudolph Valentino (section Filmography)
All-American look, with Valentino the opposite; he eventually supplanted Sessue Hayakawa as Hollywood's most popular "exotic" male lead. By 1919, he had carved...
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Toyo Fujita (section Selected filmography)
city's Little Tokyo neighborhood. Apparently this is where he met Sessue Hayakawa, an actor he often worked with in Hollywood films. He told reporters...
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Marin Sais (section Selected filmography)
film personality and was chosen by Japanese silent film matinee idol Sessue Hayakawa to appear opposite him in a series of film collaborations, the first...
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Tarō Ishida (section Filmography)
Bloom (Albert Finney) The Bridge on the River Kwai – Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) Brokeback Mountain – Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid) The Cannonball Run...
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Claude Farrère (section Filmography)
1922, based on the novel Les Hommes nouveaux) The Battle, directed by Sessue Hayakawa and Édouard-Émile Violet [es; fr; it; ja] (Silent, 1923, based on the...
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Reginald Barker (section Partial filmography)
Barker directed early stars such as Geraldine Farrar, William S. Hart, Sessue Hayakawa, Gladys Brockwell, Hoot Gibson, Willard Mack, and Myrna Loy. In his...
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Vola Vale (section Filmography)
Biograph. Among the actors she was cast with were William S. Hart, Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, William Haines, Harry Carey, Tully Marshall and William...
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marquee prior to its opening announced, "Moon Rises Next Sat Eve, Sessue Hayakawa in Gray Horizons". During a promotion for The Great Air Robbery, an...
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