Sessue Hayakawa Movies

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Holden

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Ryan

Makino works for Kayosho, a Japanese curio dealer in America. To reward Makino's dedication, Kayosho sends for Toki-ye, a picture bride. Upon...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Opera singer Renee Dupree is in love with struggling composer Julian who falls very seriously ill. She goes to impresario Mueller for the money...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Geraldine Farrar

Chinese merchant Wing Lung and Elizabeth Mendall, an American, marry and have a son named Jang Lung. Because Elizabeth wants Jang Lung to be raised...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Another entry in the popular one-reel series.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rudolph Valentino

Based on the story about Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. After Pearl Harbor, his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeffrey Hunter

Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jerry Lewis

Denise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One night she loose a lot of money on the roulette and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victor Francen

A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Audrey Hepburn

After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: John Mills

An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fannie Ward

An Oriental villain named Halloway is called in by wealthy oil interests who want to destroy a dam project for hydroelectric power that may threaten...

Genre:

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Going to take up his post in Moukden, the forest engineer finds in a trainer from the cabaret "the midnight sun" a Russian princess, Armide, whom he...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jules Berry

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mireille Balin

Superintendent Thomas is investigating a cabaret owner with suspicious actions.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

In a Far Eastern town, a settling of accounts between Western and Asian opium traffickers draws the attention of the police.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Michèle Alfa

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and...

Genre: War

Cast: Claudette Colbert

At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Anna May Wong

An American sailor falls in love with a fisherman's daughter and convinces her that Jesus is more powerful than the gods who have cursed her.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

John Gunther, a great traveler in many parts of the globe, presented on the American ABC channel the documentary program "John Gunther's High Road"...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: John Gunther

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nancy Wang Yuen

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,...

Genre: Western

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Pierre Richard-Willm

A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William Holden

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

A young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to make his studies easier. Each time he falls asleep,...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Paul O'Keefe

Running Hollywood is a comedy short.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers

A Native American warrior travels to a faraway tribe to find and defend a woman that haunts his dreams.

Genre:

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Russian brothers Count Boris and Alexis Rabourdin obtain a Japanese coastline defense map and plan to sell it to German agents in London. In America,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Blanche Sweet

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

In the office of Major Northfield, the quartermaster of the Pacific Coast, a leak has been discovered which may endanger the safety of American...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Yukio is illegal in the United States and is used by a gang of spies for their plans. Yukio must steal secret documents from an admiral. When he's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Created for the "Esso World Theater" series of films in 1964, it features excerpts from "Bugaku," "Gagaku," "Noh, " and "Kabuki" scenes performed by...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Lopaka, a poor Hawaiian fisherman, falls in love with Kokua, a young girl of royal blood. Her father refuses to let him marry her, though, unless...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

In Macao, where places of pleasure and arms trafficking are concentrated, a tragedy opposes an adventurer and his daughter whom he has brought up in...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Sessue Hayakawa was making the transition from Asian villain to sympathetic hero in this picture. The plot is a combination of racial stereotypes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland and falls in love with Kate Erskine, whose sister...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Conrad Veidt

While visiting Alan, who works in Tokyo, she attends a festival with her Japanese maid while wearing a Japanese kimono. There she meets the wealthy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai who seek vengeance against the man who caused their master's death.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Susukida

Intimate views of the movie stars of the Silent Era, at work and play; featuring Sessue Hayakawa, Lillian Gish and others.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roscoe Arbuckle

Maj. Ralph Seton is a British army officer stationed in Cawnpore, India, when the Sepoy Rebellion--a mutiny of Indian soldiers in the Brtitish army...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lou Tellegen

Genre:

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Baisho

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jūzō Itami

Japanese poet Akira living in Tokyo, loves American Ruth Vale, who was placed in the care of Akira's father when her missionary parents died. Ruth...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Blanche Sweet has a dual role in this picture -- she plays twin sisters, Edith, a sweet, normal young girl, and Grace, who is a drug fiend. They live...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Blanche Sweet

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Loey Tsing, the first love of Chan Wang, is sold into slavery by her father. Although Chan marries another, he still loves Loey; only the birth of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa is cast as an ancient Egyptian donkey boy in An Arabian Knight. The humble Hayakawa rescues high-born Lillian Hall...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

In this picture, Sessue Hayakawa is in a dual role, playing twin brothers. One of them, Yamashiro is serious and hardworking, while the other, Sadao,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Sato (Sessue Hayakawa) faithfully works for importer James Thornton (James Neill). When the old man dies, he leaves his daughter Mildred (Vivian...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Marooned on a desert island, Dr. Robert Farlow and wealthy toxicologist Count Ito Onato both fall in love with Lora, a beautiful Japanese-American...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

In a day and age when interracial marriages were considered taboo, film star Sessue Hayakawa rarely got the girl in his pictures. The issue of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Mary and her son Buster live in a single room in the slums of the city, having been deserted by their husband and father, wealthy Spencer Wellington....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa stars as John A. Ghengle, the Oxford-educated son of an Arab chieftain. Entering into a business partnership...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Japanese architect Yoda is hired as groundskeeper for retired criminal Benson Burleigh.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

A silent melodrama from the very first series of American films to use a Japanese cast. The scenes of the story are laid in Japan during the last...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

A disguised servant of a dying Japanese prince saves articles of succession from a rival faction.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Diane Lane

Hideo, an antiques dealer in Tokyo, is accused of killing his best friend. In a dramatic court-room hearing, the truth will be revealed.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

With the advent of sound, the world's leading screen idol, Douglas Fairbanks, experienced a downturn in his fortunes. His thin, reedy voice was not...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Toyama wants to go to college in America but his alcoholic father won't supply the funds. He gets the money to go, however, from Sada, whom he has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Tamura, a Japanese man working as a gardener in America, saves his money to marry his girlfriend, Japanese-American Nume Rogers. His friend Watana...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

A Liberty Bond fundraising short.

Genre: War

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

The Vermilion Pencil is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Norman Dawn, and produced and distributed by Robertson–Cole. It is based...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

A picture depicting the engrossing adventures of a small town youth in Hollywood and showing the intimate home life of some of the screen's greatest...

Genre: Drama

Cast: J. Frank Glendon

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Edward Abeles

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James MacArthur

A behind-the-scenes show on the filming of Swiss Family Robinson on the West Indian island of Tobago. Then the True Life Adventure Water Birds.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Mills

When his fiancée commits suicide after being used by an American artist, a Japanese art dealer seeks to get vengeance by seducing the artist's...

Genre:

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

In May 1945, Japan's defeat was imminent after the attacks on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines, and Tokyo was reduced to a sea of...

Genre: War

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Reporter Frank Sloan, investigating the disappearance of a Chinese slave girl in Chinatown which leads to opium addiction, job loss, and personal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Howard Hickman

Goro Mariyama uses the profits from his ethically run gambling house to help the poor. Gambler Blair Whitcomb accuses Goro of cheating, then shoots...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

A humble fisherman's girlfriend is kidnapped by an egotistical prince tricked into believing he has powers. The two lookalikes swap lives until...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

The Japanese Prince Maiyo is in London to avenge the death of his father who years earlier committed hara-kiri because he had been financially ruined...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

When a famed matador is forced to become an outlaw, he seeks to get revenge on the dancing girl who betrayed him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

After an accusation of a breach of diplomacy committed by his brother, Hashimura Togo bears the burden and leaves Japan in disgrace for the United...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Tai Leung, a young man who dreams of love and carves ivory images, falls in love with the pretty Kao Ai. Her cruel foster father owns a restaurant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

The manager of the American oil company quits out of fear of El Jaguar, the bandit who is terrorizing the Mexican countryside, Phil Jordan is sent in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

A Japanese maiden is pursued by an unscrupulous American young man who falsely believes her to have great riches.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

While her husband is away on a secret mission, the Marquise Yorisaka is Americanized by Mrs. Hockey and becomes the object of Captain Fergan's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

The skill of colorful Japanese artist Yamo Masata attracts the attention of a clever counterfeiter who seeks the artist's aid in the preparation of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Genre: History

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi