Sessue Hayakawa Movies

  • 1915
    The Cheat

    The Cheat

    The Cheat

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

    The Cheat
  • 1924
    I Have Killed

    I Have Killed

    I Have Killed

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

    I Have Killed
  • 1922
    Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12

    Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12

    Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12

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    Another entry in the popular one-reel series.

    Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
  • 1921
    The First Born

    The First Born

    The First Born

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    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...

    The First Born
  • 1919
    His Debt

    His Debt

    His Debt

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

    His Debt
  • 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
  • 1917
    The Bottle Imp

    The Bottle Imp

    The Bottle Imp

    01917HD

    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...

    The Bottle Imp
  • 1924
    Sen Yan’s Devotion

    Sen Yan’s Devotion

    Sen Yan’s Devotion

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

    Sen Yan’s Devotion
  • 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
    The Temple Of Dusk

    The Temple Of Dusk

    The Temple Of Dusk

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    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...

    The Temple Of Dusk
  • 1918
    The White Man's Law

    The White Man's Law

    The White Man's Law

    01918HD

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

    The White Man's Law
  • 1917
    The Call of the East

    The Call of the East

    The Call of the East

    01917HD

    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...

    The Call of the East
  • 1920
    An Arabian Knight

    An Arabian Knight

    An Arabian Knight

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

    An Arabian Knight
  • 1917
    The Secret Game

    The Secret Game

    The Secret Game

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

    The Secret Game
  • 1953
    47 Vendettas

    47 Vendettas

    47 Vendettas

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

    47 Vendettas
  • 1919
    The Illustrious Prince

    The Illustrious Prince

    The Illustrious Prince

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    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...

    The Illustrious Prince
  • 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
  • 1914
    O Mimi san

    O Mimi san

    O Mimi san

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    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...

    O Mimi san
  • 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
  • 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