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Sessue Hayakawa was one of the first Asian actors and filmmakers to gain great fame and success in the United States. He starred in both English-language and Japanese-language films. His career peaked during the silent film period but continued on and eventually thrived in the talkie era, culminating with an Academy Award-nominated performance in The Bridge on the River Kwai in 1957.
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The Wrath of the Gods is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Reginald Barker and starring Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Frank Borzage, Thomas Kurihara and Henry Kotani. This was the first feature film appearance of Hayakawa and the directorial debut of Barker.
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His Debt is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by William Worthington and produced by Haworth Pictures Corporation.
The Illustrious Prince is a 1919 American drama film directed by William Worthington and produced by Sessue Hayakawa's Haworth Pictures Corporation.
The Tong Man is a 1919 American thriller film directed by William Worthington and produced by Haworth Pictures Corporation.
The Beggar Prince is a lost 1920 film directed by William Worthington and produced by Sessue Hayakawa's Haworth Pictures Corporation.
The Brand of Lopez is a 1920 American film directed by Joseph De Grasse and produced by Sessue Hayakawa's Haworth Pictures Corporation. Although the main characters are a matador and an actress, there are no bull fighting or theater scenes portrayed in the film.
An Arabian Knight is a 1920 American drama film directed by Charles Swickard and produced by Sessue Hayakawa's Haworth Pictures Corporation. Its survival status is classified as unknown, which suggests that it is a lost film.
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- ↑ Bean, Jennifer M. (12 July 2011). Flickers of Desire: Movie Stars of the 1910s. Rutgers University Press. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-8135-5072-5.
- ↑ Sharp, Jasper (13 October 2011). Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-8108-7541-8.
- ↑ "Art and artifice". The University of Chicago Magazine. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ↑ Golden, Eve (29 March 2013). John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars. University Press of Kentucky. p. 1919. ISBN 0-8131-4163-X.
- ↑ Shimizu, Celine (9 May 2012). Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies. Stanford University Press. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-8047-8220-3.
