Movies: Sessue Hayakawa

  • 1957
    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

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    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 intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the br...

    The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • 1960
    Swiss Family Robinson

    Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

    Swiss Family Robinson

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    After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but soon face a danger even greater than nature: dastardly pirates....

    Swiss Family Robinson
  • 2019
    Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

    Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood (2019)

    Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

    5.52019HD

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

    Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
  • 1955
    House of Bamboo

    House of Bamboo (1955)

    House of Bamboo

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    Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals....

    House of Bamboo
  • 1915
    The Cheat

    The Cheat (1915)

    The Cheat

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

    The Cheat
  • 1958
    The Geisha Boy

    The Geisha Boy (1958)

    The Geisha Boy

    6.41958HD

    Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy....

    The Geisha Boy
  • 1959
    Green Mansions

    Green Mansions (1959)

    Green Mansions

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    A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature, who is feared by a loc...

    Green Mansions
  • 1949
    Tokyo Joe

    Tokyo Joe (1949)

    Tokyo Joe

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    An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities....

    Tokyo Joe
  • 1931
    Daughter of the Dragon

    Daughter of the Dragon (1931)

    Daughter of the Dragon

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

    Daughter of the Dragon
  • 1914
    The Typhoon

    The Typhoon (1914)

    The Typhoon

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    Tokoramo, a Japanese diplomat on a mission to Paris, begins a love affair with Helene, a chorus girl, who subsequently rejects her American fiancé, Richard Bernisky. When the Japanese discover the affair, they try to force Tokoramo to end it, but Hel...

    The Typhoon
  • 1921
    Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)

    Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20) (1921)

    Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)

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    Intimate views of the movie stars of the Silent Era, at work and play; featuring Sessue Hayakawa, Lillian Gish and others....

    Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
  • 1958
    The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant

    The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant (1958)

    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
  • 2007
    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)

    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

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    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 the rampant sexuality of early Hollywood through movie clips and reminiscences by stars of the era. G...

    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
  • 1960
    Hell to Eternity

    Hell to Eternity (1960)

    Hell to Eternity

    6.61960HD

    Based on the story about Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. After Pearl Harbor, his foster family is interned at the Manzanar camp for Japanese Americans, while he enlists in the Marines...

    Hell to Eternity
  • 1920
    An Arabian Knight

    An Arabian Knight (1920)

    An Arabian Knight

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    Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa is cast as an ancient Egyptian donkey boy in An Arabian Knight. The humble Hayakawa rescues high-born Lillian Hall from lascivious pasha Fred Jones. All this brouhaha is actually a dream experienced by Hall....

    An Arabian Knight
  • 1950
    Three Came Home

    Three Came Home (1950)

    Three Came Home

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    Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga....

    Three Came Home
  • 1966
    The Daydreamer

    The Daydreamer (1966)

    The Daydreamer

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    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, he experiences in his dreams the different characters he would later write about in fairy tales incl...

    The Daydreamer
  • 1919
    The Dragon Painter

    The Dragon Painter (1919)

    The Dragon Painter

    6.31919HD

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

    The Dragon Painter
  • 1917
    The Secret Game

    The Secret Game (1917)

    The Secret Game

    5.51917HD

    In the office of Major Northfield, the quartermaster of the Pacific Coast, a leak has been discovered which may endanger the safety of American transports that are secretly carrying troops across the Pacific. Nara-Nara, a Japanese detective, is assig...

    The Secret Game
  • 1937
    Yoshiwara

    Yoshiwara (1937)

    Yoshiwara

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    Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man....

    Yoshiwara