Sessue Hayakawa filmography

Sessue Hayakawa (June 10, 1886 – November 23, 1973) 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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Producer

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
1921	The First Born
1921	Black Roses
1921	Where Lights Are Low
1921	The Swamp

Director

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
1923	The Battle
1932	Taiyo wa higashi yori (The Sun Rise from the East)		Co-directed

Writer

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
1917	His Birthright
1921	The Swamp

Appearances as himself

United States Fourth Liberty Loan Drive (1918)
Night Life in Hollywood (1922)
Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks (1931)
Running Hollywood (1932)

Television appearances

Kraft Television Theatre (1958)
Studio One (1958)
Wagon Train (1958) as Sakae Ito
The Steve Allen Show (1959)
Here's Hollywood (1961, 1962)
Route 66 (1963) as Takasuka
Taikōki (1965) as Takeda Shingen

Early work

O Mimi San (1914) as Yorotomo
The Courtship of O San (1914) as Shotoku
The Geisha (1914) as Takura
The Ambassador's Envoy (1914) as Kamuri
A Tragedy of the Orient (1914) as Kato
A Relic of Old Japan (1914) as Koto
The Curse of Caste (1914) as Kato
The Village 'Neath the Sea (1914) as Red Elk
Star of the North (1914)
The Death Mask (1914) as Running Wolf
The Hateful God (1914)
Nipped (1914) as Taro Kamura
The Vigil (1914) as Kenjiro
Mother of the Shadows (1914) as Running Elk
The Last of the Line (1914) as Tiah - Gray Otter's Son

Thomas Ince Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
1914	The Typhoon	Tokorama
1914	The Wrath of the Gods
1914	The Sacrifice

Famous Player Lasky Films

After Five (1915) as Oki - the Valet
The Famine (1915) as Horisho
The Chinatown Mystery (1915) as Yo Hong
The Clue (1915) as Nogi
The Secret Sin (1915) as Lin Foo
The Cheat (1915) as Hishuru Tori (original release) / Haka Arakau
Temptation (1915) as Opera Admirer
Alien Souls (1916) as Sakata
The Honorable Friend (1916) as Makino
The Soul of Kura San (1916) as Toyo
The Victoria Cross (1916) as Azimoolah
Each to His Kind (1917) as Rhandah
The Bottle Imp (1917) as Lopaka
The Jaguar's Claws (1917) as El Jaguar
Forbidden Paths (1917) as Sato
Hashimura Togo (1917) as Hashimura Togo
The Call of the East (1917) as Arai Takada
The Secret Game (1917)
The Hidden Pearls (1918) as Tom Garvin
The Honor of His House (1918) as Count Ito Onato
The White Man's Law (1918) as John A. Genghis
The Bravest Way (1918) as Kara Tamura
The City of Dim Faces (1918) as Jang Lung
His Birthright (1918) as Yukio
Banzai (1918) as The American General
The Temple of Dusk (1918) as Akira

Haworth Pictures Corporation

Sessue Hayakawa is costumed as the Prince of the Island of Desire in a publicity still for the 1920 silent fantasy film The Beggar Prince.

A Heart in Pawn (1919) as Tomaya
The Courageous Coward (1919) as Suki Iota
His Debt (1919) as Goto Mariyama
The Man Beneath (1919) as Dr. Chindi Ashutor
The Gray Horizon (1919) as Yamo Masata
The Dragon Painter (1919) as Tatsu - the Dragon Painter
Bonds of Honor (1919) as Yamashito / Sasamoto
The Illustrious Prince (1919) as Prince Maiyo
The Tong Man (1919) as Luk Chen
The Beggar Prince (1920) as Nikki / Prince
The Brand of Lopez (1920) as Vasco Lopez
The Devil's Claim (1920) as Akbar Khan / Hassan
Li Ting Lang (1920) as Li Ting Lang
An Arabian Knight (1920) as Ahmed
The First Born (1921) as Chan Wang
Black Roses (1921) as Yoda
Where Lights Are Low (1921) as Tsu Wong Shih
The Swamp (1921) as Wang

European, American and Japanese Films

Five Days to Live (1922) as Tai Leung
The Vermilion Pencil (1922, USA) as Tse Chan / The Unknown / Li Chan
La Bataille (1923) as Le Marquis Yorisaka
The Great Prince Shan (1924) as Prince Shan
The Danger Line (1924) as Marquis Yorisaka
Sen Yan's Devotion (1924) as Sen Yan
J'ai tué! (1924) as Hideo - l'antiquaire japonais
The Man Who Laughed Last (1929) (early talking film for Sessue Hayakawa)[1]
Daughter of the Dragon (1931, USA (Paramount Pictures)) as Ah Kee
Taiyo wa higashi yori (1932) as Kenji
Bakugeki hikôtai (1934)
Tojin Okichi (1935) as Townsend Harris
Kuni o mamoru mono: Nichiren (1935) as Nichiren
The Daughter of the Samurai (1937, German-Japanese) as Iwao Yamato
Yoshiwara (1937, French) as Ysamo, Kuli
The Cheat (1937) as Prince Hu-Long
Storm Over Asia (1938, French) as Le prince Ling
Patrouille blanche (1942) as Halloway
Macao, l'enfer du jeu (1942) as Ying Tchaï
Malaria (1943) as Saïdi
The Midnight Sun (1943) as Matsui
Le Cabaret du grand large (1946) as Professeur Wang
Quartier chinois (1947) as Tchang

Final Films

Tokyo Joe (1949) as Baron Kimura
Three Came Home (1950) as Col. Mitsuo Suga
Harukanari haha no kuni (1950) as Joe Hayami
Re mizeraburu: kami to akuma (1950)
Re mizeraburu: kami to jiyu no hata (1950)
Onna kanja himon - Akô rôshi (1953) as Sakon Tachibana
Kurama Tengu to Katsu Kaishû (1953) as Awanokami Katsu
Nihon yaburezu (1954)
House of Bamboo (1955) as Insp. Kita (dubbed by Richard Loo)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) (for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor) as Colonel Saito
The Geisha Boy (1958) as Mr. Sikita
Green Mansions (1959) as Runi
Hell to Eternity (1960) as Gen. Matsui
Swiss Family Robinson (1960) as Kuala, Pirate Chief
The Big Wave (1961) as The Old Man
The Daydreamer (1966) as The Mole (voice)
Junjô nijûsô (1967) as Tajima (final film role)

Bibliography

Miyao, Daisuke (2007). Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3969-4. OCLC 470908395.

References

"Stockton Evening and Sunday Record 12 Oct 1929, page 14". Newspapers.com. Retrieved December 28, 2022.

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