Sessue Hayakawa Movies

  • 1938
    Tempête sur l'Asie

    Tempête sur l'Asie

    Tempête sur l'Asie

    01938HD

    An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .

    Tempête sur l'Asie
  • 1957
    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    7.81957HD

    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...

    The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • 1937
    The Daughter of the Samurai

    The Daughter of the Samurai

    The Daughter of the Samurai

    5.31937HD

    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...

    The Daughter of the Samurai
  • 1949
    Tokyo Joe

    Tokyo Joe

    Tokyo Joe

    6.11949HD

    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...

    Tokyo Joe
  • 1914
    The Last of the Line

    The Last of the Line

    The Last of the Line

    6.61914HD

    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
  • 1914
    The Wrath of the Gods

    The Wrath of the Gods

    The Wrath of the Gods

    6.21914HD

    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.

    The Wrath of the Gods
  • 1921
    The Swamp

    The Swamp

    The Swamp

    01921HD

    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....

    The Swamp
  • 1919
    The Man Beneath

    The Man Beneath

    The Man Beneath

    61919HD

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

    The Man Beneath
  • 1921
    Where Lights Are Low

    Where Lights Are Low

    Where Lights Are Low

    51921HD

    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
  • 1918
    Hidden Pearls

    Hidden Pearls

    Hidden Pearls

    01918HD

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

    Hidden Pearls
  • 1947
    Quartier chinois

    Quartier chinois

    Quartier chinois

    01947HD

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

    Quartier chinois
  • 2007
    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

    4.92007HD

    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...

    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
  • 1960
    Hell to Eternity

    Hell to Eternity

    Hell to Eternity

    6.61960HD

    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...

    Hell to Eternity
  • 1919
    The Dragon Painter

    The Dragon Painter

    The Dragon Painter

    6.31919HD

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

    The Dragon Painter
  • 1967
    Lover's Duet

    Lover's Duet

    Lover's Duet

    01967HD

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

    Lover's Duet
  • 1954
    日本敗れず

    日本敗れず

    日本敗れず

    01954HD

    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...

    日本敗れず
  • 1914
    The Typhoon

    The Typhoon

    The Typhoon

    01914HD

    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
  • 1915
    The Secret Sin

    The Secret Sin

    The Secret Sin

    01915HD

    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...

    The Secret Sin
  • 1953
    悲劇の将軍 山下奉文

    悲劇の将軍 山下奉文

    悲劇の将軍 山下奉文

    01953HD

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

    悲劇の将軍 山下奉文
  • 1953
    47 Vendettas

    47 Vendettas

    47 Vendettas

    01953HD

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

    47 Vendettas