Movies by Sessue Hayakawa
As part of the cast:
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Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Cast: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur …
Directed by: Ken Annakin
After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but soon…
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Hell to Eternity (1960)
Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Vic Damone …
Directed by: Phil Karlson
When his Japanese-American foster family is sent to an internment camp, young Guy Gabaldon (Jeffrey Hunter) is drafted into the Marines in this war drama based on a true story. A…
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The Geisha Boy (1958)
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Marie McDonald, Sessue Hayakawa …
Directed by: Frank Tashlin
While keeping troops entertained in the Pacific, a magician of questionable skill makes fast friends with a young orphan boy. But their unlikely bond is tested when the boy follows his new…
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins …
Directed by: David Lean
Director David Lean's sweeping epic -- best known for a whistling work theme that became legendary -- is set in a World War II Japanese prison camp, where British prisoners are forced to…
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House of Bamboo (1955)
Cast: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi …
Directed by: Samuel Fuller
Filmed in Japan and featuring stunning photography, Sam Fuller's 1955 crime noir tells the story of Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack), a U.S. army operative sent to Tokyo to investigate…
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Three Came Home (1950)
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond …
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
Claudette Colbert stars as American writer Agnes Newton Keith in this tensely dramatic true story of survival in the Pacific theater of operations during the dark days of World War II.…
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Tokyo Joe (1949)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly …
Directed by: Stuart Heisler
Air Corps flyboy Joe Barrett (Humphrey Bogart) thinks his family perished in a concentration camp during World War II. Trying to get on with his life, he starts his own airline and, years…
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The Dragon Painter (1919)
Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Toyo Fujita, Edward Peil Sr. …
Directed by: William Worthington
Inspired by the belief that his fiancée, a princess, was captured by a dragon, Japanese mountain hermit Tatsu (Sessue Hayakawa) produces incredible works of art. Upon discovering this…
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The Tong-Man (1919)
Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Helen Jerone Eddy, Toyo Fujita …
Directed by: William Worthington
When he refuses to kill the merchant father of the girl he loves, Chinatown gang enforcer Luk Chen (Sessue Hayakawa) brings the wrath of the entire opium-smuggling Bo Sing Tong down upon them…
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Carmen / The Cheat (1915)
Cast: Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid, Pedro de Cordoba …
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Two spectacular Cecil B. DeMille classics are included in this special collection. Carmen stars legendary soprano Geraldine Farrar in the title role of a woman whose seduction draws Spanish…
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The Cheat (1915)
Cast: Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Dean …
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
When greedy socialite Edith Hardy (Fannie Ward) embezzles a large sum of money from charity, then loses it all in a bad investment, she secretly turns to shady Japanese merchant Hishuru Tori…