Sessue Hayakawa Movies

Five Days to Live

Tai Leung, a young man who dreams of love and carves ivory images, falls in love with the pretty Kao Ai. Her cruel foster father owns a restaurant where she works, and he mistreats her and ... See full summary »

The Motherland Far Far Away

The Soul of Kura San

When his fiancée commits suicide after being used by an American artist, a Japanese art dealer seeks to get vengeance by seducing the artist's wife.

Hashimura Togo

Le cabaret du grand large

The Sun Rise from the East

Where Lights Are Low

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 study in the United States, the young man ... See full summary »

The City of Dim Faces

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 a Christian, Wing Lung locks her in ... See full summary »

Quartier chinois

Forbidden Paths

A Japanese man falls in love with the daughter of his American employer.

The White Man's Law

The story is simply that of misplaced confidence, that of deception practiced by a renegade Englishman of attractive personality and high social training upon characters more simple and ... See full summary »

The Great Prince Shan

An assassinated Lord's daughter refuses to marry a Chinese prince but agrees to be his mistress.