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| The Devil’s Claim | Akbar Khan / Hassan | 1920-05-02 | A Persian novelist living in New York throws aside the woman who loves him, and she gets an American woman to help get him back. Meanwhile, the noveli… |
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| The Dragon Painter | Tatsu – the Dragon Painter | 1919-09-28 | A wild man and genius becomes a master painter’s disciple, but loses his divine gift when he finds love…. |
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| The Wrath of the Gods | Lord Yamaki | 1914-06-08 | An American sailor falls in love with a fisherman’s daughter and convinces her that Jesus is more powerful than the gods who have cursed her…. |
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| The Tong Man | Luk Chen | 1919-12-14 | An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia…. |
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| The Last of the Line | Tiah – Gray Otter’s Son | 1914-12-24 | A film about Sioux leader Chief Gray Otter who sends his son Tiah off to a “white man’s school” so that he can become a great leader. The son returns … |
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| The Typhoon | Tokorama | 1914-10-10 | Tokoramo, a Japanese diplomat on a mission to Paris, begins a love affair with Helene, a chorus girl, who subsequently rejects her American fiancé, R… |
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| The Motherland Far Far Away | Joe Hayami | 1950-03-05 | … |
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| The Secret Game | Nara-Nara | 1917-12-03 | In the office of Major Northfield, the quartermaster of the Pacific Coast, a leak has been discovered which may endanger the safety of American transp… |
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| His Birthright | Yukio | 1918-09-08 | Yukio is illegal in the United States and is used by a gang of spies for their plans. Yukio must steal secret documents from an admiral. When he’s sub… |
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| The Bottle Imp | Lopaka | 1917-03-25 | Lopaka, a poor Hawaiian fisherman, falls in love with Kokua, a young girl of royal blood. Her father refuses to let him marry her, though, unless Lopa… |
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| The Courageous Coward | Suki Iota | 1919-03-31 | Sessue Hayakawa was making the transition from Asian villain to sympathetic hero in this picture. The plot is a combination of racial stereotypes that… |
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| Gambling Hell | Ying Tchaï | 1942-12-09 | In Macao, where places of pleasure and arms trafficking are concentrated, a tragedy opposes an adventurer and his daughter whom he has brought up in i… |
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| The Man Beneath | Dr. Chindi Ashutor | 1919-07-05 | The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland and falls in love with Kate Erskine, whose sister M… |
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| The Great Prince Shan | Prince Shan | 1924-05-01 | An assassinated Lord’s daughter refuses to marry a Chinese prince but agrees to be his mistress…. |
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| The Call of the East | Arai Takada | 1917-10-15 | While visiting Alan, who works in Tokyo, she attends a festival with her Japanese maid while wearing a Japanese kimono. There she meets the wealthy Ar… |
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| The Battle | Le Marquis Yorisaka | 1923-12-23 | … |
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| The Temple Of Dusk | Akira | 1918-10-20 | Japanese poet Akira living in Tokyo, loves American Ruth Vale, who was placed in the care of Akira’s father when her missionary parents died. Ruth ret… |
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| Black Roses | Yoda | 1921-05-22 | Japanese architect Yoda is hired as groundskeeper for retired criminal Benson Burleigh…. |
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| Where Lights Are Low | T”Su Wong Shih | 1921-09-04 | The Chinese prince T’Su Wong Shih loves Quan Yin, the daughter of a gardener, but his uncle wants him to marry a girl of his own class. Leaving to stu… |
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| The First Born | Chan Wang | 1921-01-30 | Loey Tsing (Helen Jerome Eddy), the first love of Chan Wang (Hayakawa), is sold into slavery by her father. Although Chan marries another, he still lo… |
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| An Arabian Knight | Ahmed | 1920-08-22 | 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… |
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| Bonds of Honor | Yamashito / Sasamoto | 1919-10-04 | In this picture, Sessue Hayakawa is in a dual role, playing twin brothers. One of them, Yamashiro is serious and hardworking, while the other, Sadao, … |
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| Hidden Pearls | Tom Garvin | 1918-02-18 | Hawaiian prince Tom Garvin (Sessue Hayakawa) receives an American college education and falls in love with Enid Benton (Florence Vidor)…. |
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| The Honor of His House | Count Ito Onato | 1918-04-01 | Marooned on a desert island, Dr. Robert Farlow and wealthy toxicologist Count Ito Onato both fall in love with Lora, a beautiful Japanese-American gir… |
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| Li Ting Lang | Li Ting Lang | 1920-07-24 | In a day and age when interracial marriages were considered taboo, film star Sessue Hayakawa rarely got the girl in his pictures. The issue of prejudi… |
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| The Swamp | Wang | 1921-10-30 | Mary and her son Buster live in a single room in the slums of the city, having been deserted by their husband and father, wealthy Spencer Wellington. … |
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| The White Man’s Law | John A. Genghis | 1918-05-06 | Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa stars as John A. Ghengle, the Oxford-educated son of an Arab chieftain. Entering into a business partnership with… |
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| O Mimi san | Yorotomo | 1914-02-05 | A silent melodrama from the very first series of American films to use a Japanese cast. The scenes of the story are laid in Japan during the last rev… |
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| Sen Yan’s Devotion | Sen Yan | 1924-07-01 | A disguised servant of a dying Japanese prince saves articles of succession from a rival faction…. |
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| I Have Killed | Hideo | 1924-10-25 | Hideo, an antiques dealer in Tokyo, is accused of killing his best friend. In a dramatic court-room hearing, the truth will be revealed…. |
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| A Heart in Pawn | Tomaya | 1919-03-20 | Toyama wants to go to college in America but his alcoholic father won’t supply the funds. He gets the money to go, however, from Sada, whom he has mar… |
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| The Bravest Way | Kara Tamura | 1918-06-16 | Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa was one of the most popular leading men in American silent films-this despite the fact that orientals were traditionall… |
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| Banzai | The American General | 1918-10-01 | A Liberty Bond fundraising short…. |
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| The Vermilion Pencil | Tse Chan / The Unknown / Li Chan | 1922-03-19 | The Vermilion Pencil is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Norman Dawn, and produced and distributed by Robertson–Cole. It is based on th… |
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| The Honorable Friend | Makino | 1916-08-27 | Makino works for Kayosho, a Japanese curio dealer in America. To reward Makino’s dedication, Kayosho sends for Toki-ye, a picture bride. Upon arrival,… |
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| The City of Dim Faces | Jang Lung | 1918-07-15 | Chinese merchant Wing Lung and Elizabeth Mendall, an American, marry and have a son named Jang Lung. Because Elizabeth wants Jang Lung to be raised as… |
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| Patrouille blanche | | 1942-03-05 | An Oriental villain named Halloway is called in by wealthy oil interests who want to destroy a dam project for hydroelectric power that may threaten t… |
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| Le cabaret du grand large | Professeur Wang | 1946-10-30 | Superintendent Thomas is investigating a cabaret owner with suspicious actions…. |
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| The Death Mask | Running Wolf | 1914-09-25 | A Native American warrior travels to a faraway tribe to find and defend a woman that haunts his dreams…. |
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| Re mizeraburu: kami to akuma | | 1950-11-03 | … |
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| Forfaiture | Prince Hu-Long | 1937-11-24 | Denise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One night she loose a lot of money ont eh roulette and therefo… |
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| The Cheat | Hishuru Tori [Haka Arakau] | 1915-12-13 | A venal, spoiled stockbroker’s wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to repla… |
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| Yoshiwara | Ysamo, Kuli | 1937-06-23 | 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 t… |
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| Tempête sur l’Asie | Prinz Ling | 1938-04-20 | An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia …. |
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| Forbidden Paths | Sato | 1917-07-12 | Sato (Sessue Hayakawa) faithfully works for importer James Thornton (James Neill). When the old man dies, he leaves his daughter Mildred (Vivian Marti… |
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| Malaria | | 1943-06-30 | A colonial wife carries on an affair with a French officer, but the wife’s native servant may have overheard their plan to leave Africa and return to … |
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| Quartier chinois | | 1947-03-07 | In a Far Eastern town, a settling of accounts between Western and Asian opium traffickers draws the attention of the police…. |
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| Re mizeraburu: kami to jiyu no hata | | 1950-11-14 | … |
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| Hell to Eternity | General Matsui | 1960-08-01 | 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 fo… |
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| Daughter of the Dragon | Ah Kee | 1931-09-05 | At her Chinese father’s bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective…. |
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| The Daughter of the Samurai | Iwao Yamato | 1937-02-04 | Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there st… |
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| 47 Vendettas | Sakon Tachibana | 1953-03-31 | The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai who seek vengeance against the man who caused their master’s death…. |
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| The Victoria Cross | Azimoolah | 1916-12-14 | Maj. Ralph Seton is a British army officer stationed in Cawnpore, India, when the Sepoy Rebellion–a mutiny of Indian soldiers in the Brtitish army in… |
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| Lover’s Duet | Tajima | 1967-09-30 | A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name…. |
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| The Bridge on the River Kwai | Col. Saito | 1957-10-11 | 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… |
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| The Geisha Boy | Mr. Sikita | 1958-11-02 | 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 … |
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| Green Mansions | Runi | 1959-03-19 | 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… |
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| Tokyo Joe | Baron Kimura | 1949-10-26 | An American returns to Tokyo to try to pick up threads of his pre-World War II life there but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authori… |
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| Three Came Home | Colonel Michio Suga | 1950-02-20 | Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisone… |
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| The Secret Sin | Lin Foo | 1915-10-21 | Blanche Sweet has a dual role in this picture — she plays twin sisters, Edith, a sweet, normal young girl, and Grace, who is a drug fiend. They live … |
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| Le soleil de minuit | | 1943-06-30 | Going to take up his post in Moukden, the forest engineer finds in a trainer from the cabaret “the midnight sun” a Russian princess, Armide, whom he o… |
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| The Clue | Nogi | 1915-07-08 | Russian brothers Count Boris and Alexis Rabourdin obtain a Japanese coastline defense map and plan to sell it to German agents in London. In America, … |
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| Swiss Family Robinson | Kuala, Pirate Chief | 1960-12-21 | After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they … |
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| The Big Wave | The Old Man | 1961-04-02 | Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on… |
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| House of Bamboo | Inspector Kito | 1955-07-01 | 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… |
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| Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20) | Himself | 1921-02-22 | Intimate views of the movie stars of the Silent Era, at work and play; featuring Sessue Hayakawa, Lillian Gish and others…. |
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| Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks | Self | 1931-12-12 | With the advent of sound, the world’s leading screen idol, Douglas Fairbanks, experienced a downturn in his fortunes. His thin, reedy voice was not su… |
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| Temptation | Opera Admirer | 1915-12-15 | Opera singer Renee Dupree is in love with struggling composer Julian who falls very seriously ill. She goes to impresario Mueller for the money Julian… |
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| The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant | | 1958-01-01 | 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…. |
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| Running Hollywood | Sessue Hayakawa | 1932-01-27 | Running Hollywood is a comedy short…. |
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| The Daydreamer | The Mole (voice) | 1966-06-01 | In this hybrid of live-action and stop-motion animation, a young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in orde… |
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| Night Life in Hollywood | Self | 1922-11-15 | A picture depicting the engrossing adventures of a small town youth in Hollywood and showing the intimate home life of some of the screen’s greatest s… |
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| Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood | (archive) | 2019-10-13 | A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack…. |
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| Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12 | Self | 1922-11-05 | Another entry in the popular one-reel series…. |
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| Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | | 2007-05-23 | 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 t… |
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| The Love Goddesses | (archive footage) | 1965-03-03 | This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry change… |
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