Sessue Hayakawa filmography

Advertisement in Moving Picture World, May 1919.

Sessue Hayakawa (June 10, 1886 – November 23, 1973) was one of the first Asian actors and filmmakers to gain great fame and success in the United States. He starred in both English-language and Japanese-language films. His career peaked during the silent film period but continued on and eventually thrived in the talkie era, culminating with an Academy Award-nominated performance in The Bridge on the River Kwai in 1957.

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Appearances as himself[]

• United States Fourth Liberty Loan Drive (1918)
• Night Life in Hollywood (1922)
• with Douglas Fairbanks (1931)
• Running Hollywood (1932)

Television appearances[]

• Kraft Television Theatre (1958)
• Studio One (1958)
• Wagon Train (1958) as Sakae Ito
• The Steve Allen Show (1959)
• Here's Hollywood (1961, 1962)
• Route 66 (1963) as Takasuka
• Taikōki (1965) as Takeda Shingen

Early work[]

• O Mimi San (1914) as Yorotomo
• The Courtship of O San (1914) as Shotoku
• The Geisha (1914) as Takura
• The Ambassador's Envoy (1914) as Kamuri
• A Tragedy of the Orient (1914) as Kato
• A Relic of Old Japan (1914) as Koto
• The Curse of Caste (1914) as Kato
• The Village 'Neath the Sea (1914) as Red Elk
• Star of the North (1914)
• The Death Mask (1914) as Running Wolf
• The Hateful God (1914)
• Nipped (1914) as Taro Kamura
• The Vigil (1914) as Kenjiro
• Mother of the Shadows (1914) as Running Elk
• The Last of the Line (1914) as Tiah - Gray Otter's Son

Thomas Ince Films[]

Famous Player Lasky Films[]

• After Five (1915) as Oki - the Valet
• The Famine (1915) as Horisho
• The Chinatown Mystery (1915) as Yo Hong
• The Clue (1915) as Nogi
• The Secret Sin (1915) as Lin Foo
• The Cheat (1915) as Hishuru Tori (original release) / Haka Arakau
• Temptation (1915) as Opera Admirer
• Alien Souls (1916) as Sakata
• The Honorable Friend (1916) as Makino
• The Soul of Kura San (1916) as Toyo
• The Victoria Cross (1916) as Azimoolah
• Each to His Kind (1917) as Rhandah
• The Bottle Imp (1917) as Lopaka
• The Jaguar's Claws (1917) as El Jaguar
• Forbidden Paths (1917) as Sato
• Hashimura Togo (1917) as Hashimura Togo
• The Call of the East (1917) as Arai Takada
• The Secret Game (1917)
• The Hidden Pearls (1918) as Tom Garvin
• The Honor of His House (1918) as Count Ito Onato
• The White Man's Law (1918) as John A. Genghis
• The Bravest Way (1918) as Kara Tamura
• The City of Dim Faces (1918) as Jang Lung
• His Birthright (1918) as Yukio
• Banzai (1918) as The American General
• The Temple of Dusk (1918) as Akira

Haworth Pictures Corporation[]

Sessue Hayakawa is costumed as the Prince of the Island of Desire in a publicity still for the 1920 silent fantasy film The Beggar Prince.

• A Heart in Pawn (1919) as Tomaya
• The Courageous Coward (1919) as Suki Iota
• His Debt (1919) as Goto Mariyama
• The Man Beneath (1919) as Dr. Chindi Ashutor
• The Gray Horizon (1919) as Yamo Masata
• The Dragon Painter (1919) as Tatsu - the Dragon Painter
• Bonds of Honor (1919) as Yamashito / Sasamoto
• The Illustrious Prince (1919) as Prince Maiyo
• The Tong Man (1919) as Luk Chen
• The Beggar Prince (1920) as Nikki / Prince
• The Brand of Lopez (1920) as Vasco Lopez
• The Devil's Claim (1920) as Akbar Khan / Hassan
• Li Ting Lang (1920) as Li Ting Lang
• An Arabian Knight (1920) as Ahmed
• The First Born (1921) as Chan Wang
• Black Roses (1921) as Yoda
• Where Lights Are Low (1921) as Tsu Wong Shih
• The Swamp (1921) as Wang

European, American and Japanese Films[]

• Five Days to Live (1922) as Tai Leung
• The Vermilion Pencil (1922, USA) as Tse Chan / The Unknown / Li Chan
• La Bataille (1923) as Le Marquis Yorisaka
• The Great Prince Shan (1924) as Prince Shan
• The Danger Line (1924) as Marquis Yorisaka
• Sen Yan's Devotion (1924) as Sen Yan
• J'ai tué! (1924) as Hideo - l'antiquaire japonais
• The Man Who Laughed Last (1929)
• Daughter of the Dragon (1931, USA (Paramount Pictures)) as Ah Kee
• Taiyo wa higashi yori (1932) as Kenji
• Bakugeki hikôtai (1934)
• Tojin Okichi (1935) as Townsend Harris
• Kuni o mamoru mono: Nichiren (1935) as Nichiren
• The Daughter of the Samurai (1937, German-Japanese) as Iwao Yamato
• Yoshiwara (1937, French) as Ysamo, Kuli
• The Cheat (1937) as Prince Hu-Long
• Storm Over Asia (1938, French) as Le prince Ling
• Patrouille blanche (1942) as Halloway
•  [fr] (1942) as Ying Tchaï
• Malaria (1943) as Saïdi
• Le Soleil de minuit (1943) as Matsui
• Le Cabaret du grand large (1946) as Professeur Wang
• Quartier chinois (1947) as Tchang

Final Films[]

• Tokyo Joe (1949) as Baron Kimura
• Three Came Home (1950) as Col. Mitsuo Suga
• Harukanari haha no kuni (1950) as Joe Hayami
• Re mizeraburu: kami to akuma (1950)
• Re mizeraburu: kami to jiyu no hata (1950)
• Onna kanja himon - Akô rôshi (1953) as Sakon Tachibana
• Kurama Tengu to Katsu Kaishû (1953) as Awanokami Katsu
• Nihon yaburezu (1954)
• House of Bamboo (1955) as Insp. Kita (dubbed by Richard Loo)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) (for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor) as Colonel Saito
• The Geisha Boy (1958) as Mr. Sikita
• Green Mansions (1959) as Runi
• Hell to Eternity (1960) as Gen. Matsui
• Swiss Family Robinson (1960) as Kuala, Pirate Chief
• (1961) as The Old Man
• The Daydreamer (1966) as The Mole (voice)
• Junjô nijûsô (1967) as Tajima (final film role)

Bibliography[]

• Miyao, Daisuke (2007). Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3969-4. OCLC 470908395.