Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Direction David Lean

Cast William Holden · Alec Guinness · Jack Hawkins · James Donald

Synopsis The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) follows British prisoners of war in a Japanese camp during World War II. Forced to build a railway bridge, Colonel Nicholson, a principled officer, becomes obsessed with constructing a symbol of British resilience....

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Robert Stack · Robert Ryan · Shirley Yamaguchi · Brad Dexter

Synopsis Sandy Dawson had assembled a platton of ex-army thugs to run panchinko parlours while pulling off bloody heists and armed robbery. The murder of a friend brings Eddie Spanier into the group, along with his friend's Japanese wife.

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Fannie Ward · Sessue Hayakawa · Jack Dean · Yutaka Abe

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

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Claudette Colbert · Patric Knowles · Sessue Hayakawa · Florence Desmond

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Jerry Lewis · Marie McDonald · Sessue Hayakawa · Barton MacLane

Synopsis 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.

Direction William Worthington

Cast Sessue Hayakawa · Toyo Fujita · Edward Peil Sr. · Tsuru Aoki

Synopsis Tatsu is a slightly delusional painter who lives in the wilderness. He spends his days painting nothing but the image of his love, a princess he believes to have been incarnated as a dragon. His work is noticed by a...

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast John Mills · Dorothy McGuire · James MacArthur · Janet Munro

Synopsis The Disney touch is all over this grand, colorful version of the Johann Wyss adventure of a European family set off for the new world of New Guinea. The film opens on a ship jostled and torn by a raging...

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Alexander Knox · Florence Marly · Sessue Hayakawa

Synopsis An American returns to Tokyo try to pick up threads of his pre-WW2 life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.

Direction Reginald Barker

Cast Sessue Hayakawa · Tsuru Aoki · Kisaburô Kurihara · Frank Borzage

Direction Mel Ferrer

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Anthony Perkins · Lee J. Cobb · Sessue Hayakawa

Synopsis Based on the popular 1904 novel by W. H. Hudson, this valiant attempt to bring mystical realism and fantasy to the screen falls somewhat flat. Abel, son of a murdered government official escapes into the Venezuelan interior bent on revenge....

Direction Jay Hunt · Thomas H. Ince

Cast Joe Goodboy · Sessue Hayakawa · Tsuru Aoki · Stanely Bigham

Direction Richard Oswald

Cast Conrad Veidt · Sessue Hayakawa · Madeleine Robinson · Lucas Gridoux

Synopsis An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia.

Direction William Worthington

Cast Sessue Hayakawa · Vola Vale · Tsuru Aoki · Florence Vidor

Direction William Worthington

Cast Sessue Hayakawa · Beatrice La Plante · Thelma Percy · Bert Hadley

Direction Roger Lion

Cast Sessue Hayakawa · Huguette Duflos · Max Maxudian · Maurice Sigrist

Synopsis Hideo, an antiques dealer in Tokyo, is accused of killing his best friend. In a dramatic court-room hearing, the truth will be revealed.

Direction Victor Fleming · Douglas Fairbanks

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Victor Fleming · Duke Kahanamoku · Sojin

Synopsis This film was also known as Around the World in 80 Minutes. Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and a crew of three journey around the world and report on various cultural curiosities and the humour they find in everyday life overseas.

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Sessue Hayakawa · Mireille Balin · Henri Guisol · Erich von Stroheim

Synopsis In Jean Delannoy’s sexy, funny, and uber dark adventure-melodrama, Macao, L’enfer Du Jeu (aka Gambling Hell 1939), starring a charming Erich von Stroheim as an arms dealer, the luminous Mireille Balin as a cabaret dancer, and the suave but sinister...

Direction William Worthington

Cast Sessue Hayakawa · Jane Novak · Francis McDonald · Fred Montague

Direction William Worthington

Cast Sessue Hayakawa · Helen Jerome Eddy · Pauline Curley · John Gilbert

Synopsis As described in a film magazine,[3] Kate Erskine (Eddy) and her sister Mary (Curley) love Dr. Chindi Ashutor (Hayakawa) and James Bassett (Gilbert), respectively, the latter having been college chums, one being a noted physician while the other pursuing no...

Direction Thomas H. Ince

Cast Sessue Hayakawa · One Feather · Ernest Swallow · Crazy Thunder

Synopsis A Native American warrior travels to a faraway tribe to find and defend a woman that haunts his dreams.