Sessue Hayakawa Movies

  • 1957
    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    7.821957HD

    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
  • 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

    4.32007HD

    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
  • 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
  • 1958
    The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant

    The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant

    The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant

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    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.

    The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
  • 1918
    The City of Dim Faces

    The City of Dim Faces

    The City of Dim Faces

    3.31918HD

    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...

    The City of Dim Faces
  • 2019
    Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

    Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

    Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

    5.72019HD

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

    Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
  • 1931
    Daughter of the Dragon

    Daughter of the Dragon

    Daughter of the Dragon

    5.0751931HD

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

    Daughter of the Dragon
  • 2002
    Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making

    Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making

    Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making

    02002HD

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

    Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
  • 1920
    The Devil's Claim

    The Devil's Claim

    The Devil's Claim

    01920HD

    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
  • 1960
    Escape to Paradise/Water Birds

    Escape to Paradise/Water Birds

    Escape to Paradise/Water Birds

    01960HD

    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.

    Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
  • 1959
    John Gunther's High Road

    John Gunther's High Road

    John Gunther's High Road

    101959HD

    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"...

    John Gunther's High Road
  • 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
  • 1917
    Each to His Kind

    Each to His Kind

    Each to His Kind

    01917HD

    Each to His Kind
  • 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
  • 1919
    The Tong Man

    The Tong Man

    The Tong Man

    5.71919HD

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

    The Tong Man
  • 1966
    The Daydreamer

    The Daydreamer

    The Daydreamer

    4.61966HD

    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,...

    The Daydreamer
  • 1960
    Swiss Family Robinson

    Swiss Family Robinson

    Swiss Family Robinson

    6.91960HD

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

    Swiss Family Robinson
  • 1915
    The Cheat

    The Cheat

    The Cheat

    5.9641915HD

    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
  • 1946
    Le Cabaret du Grand Large

    Le Cabaret du Grand Large

    Le Cabaret du Grand Large

    01946HD

    Superintendent Thomas is investigating a cabaret owner with suspicious actions.

    Le Cabaret du Grand Large
  • 1950
    Three Came Home

    Three Came Home

    Three Came Home

    6.561950HD

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

    Three Came Home