Sessue Hayakawa Movies

The Bridge on the River Kwai

82/100

After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.

The Cheat

66/100

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.

Green Mansions

56/100

A young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her.

The Geisha Boy

65/100

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.

Tokyo Joe

64/100

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.

Three Came Home

74/100

During Word War II, American author Agnes Newton Keith is imprisoned by the Japanese in various POW camps in North Borneo and Sarawak.

The Dragon Painter

62/100

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

Daughter of the Dragon

62/100

Princess Ling Moy, a young and beautiful Chinese aristocrat lives next door, unbeknownst to her, to Dr. Fu Manchu, a brilliant but twisted genius who is out to rule the world. She is ... See full summary »

Gambling Hell

67/100

A captain, who has rescued a woman from danger,sails with her to Macao to do an arms deal with the Asian proprietor of a gambling den.The proprietor,s daughter, whom a visiting journalist ... See full summary »

The Wrath of the Gods

58/100

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.

Die Tochter des Samurai

62/100

Teruo is an adopted son of an old samurai family that returns to Japan after living in Germany and is expected to marry Mitsuko. But he's struggling to readjust to Japan and intends to marry an Aryan woman.

The Secret Game

64/100

During the Great War, German and Japanese spies face off in the United States.

The Cheat

68/100

The Tong Man

63/100

An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.

An Arabian Knight

52/100

A young Egyptian goes to the rescue of his employers, a wealthy European family, when they are menaced by a local strongman and his gang.

After Five

40/100

Ted Ewing, a young New Yorker, is the guardian of Nora Hildreth, with whom he is in love. He invests...

Malaria

56/100

The Victoria Cross

46/100

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 India--breaks out in 1857. He receives... See full summary »

The Beggar Prince

The Devil's Claim

The Brand of Lopez

When a famed matador is forced to become an outlaw, he seeks to get revenge on the dancing girl who betrayed him.

The Vermilion Pencil

The Honorable Friend

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, she is married to Makino in a civil ... See full summary »

The Bravest Way

Tamura, a Japanese man working as a gardener in America, saves his money to marry his girlfriend, Japanese-American Nume Rogers. His friend, Watana, works for a Japanese businessman named ... See full summary »

Each to His Kind

Rhandah, who is to succeed his father, the Maharajah of Dharpuli, is sent to Oxford to be educated. The Princess Nada, to whom he is engaged, fearful of the outcome of his journey, gives ... See full summary »