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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Advertisement in Moving Picture World, May 1919.
Producer
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
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1921 | The First Born | |||
1921 | Black Roses | |||
1921 | Where Lights Are Low | |||
1921 | The Swamp | |||
Director
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
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1923 | The Battle | |||
1932 | Taiyo wa higashi yori (The Sun Rise from the East) | Co-directed | ||
Writer
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
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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) |
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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
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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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