Sessue Hayakawa Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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.

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...

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

Running Hollywood is a comedy short.

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...

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...

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...

An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .