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    Hayakawa (Japanese: 早川 金太郎, Hepburn: Hayakawa Kintarō, June 10, 1886 – November 23, 1973), known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa (早川 雪洲, Hayakawa Sesshū)...
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    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...
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  • 1983), Japanese fashion model Sessue Hayakawa (1889–1973), motion picture actor Tokuji Hayakawa (1894–1981), founder of Hayakawa Kinzoku Kougyou (the present-day...
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    silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, and Jack Dean, Ward's real-life husband. Edith Hardy is a spoiled...
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    effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Starring Setsuko Hara, Ruth Eweler and Sessue Hayakawa, it was the first of two co-productions between Imperial Japan and...
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  • non-East Asian actors as East Asian caricatures. The Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa began appearing in films around 1914. Signed to Paramount Pictures...
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    starring Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Frank Borzage, Thomas Kurihara and Henry Kotani. This was the first feature film appearance of Hayakawa and the directorial...
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    Mary McNeil Fenollosa. It stars Sessue Hayakawa as a young painter who believes that his fiancée (played by Hayakawa's wife Tsuru Aoki), is a princess...
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    The cast includes William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, and Sessue Hayakawa. It was initially scripted by screenwriter Carl Foreman, who was later...
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  • Robinson James MacArthur as Fritz Robinson Janet Munro as Roberta Sessue Hayakawa as Kuala, the pirate captain Tommy Kirk as Ernst Robinson Kevin Corcoran...
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  • Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom is a biography of actor Sessue Hayakawa, written by Daisuke Miyao, assistant professor of film...
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    symbols could be male as well as female: actors such as the romantic Sessue Hayakawa and the athletic Douglas Fairbanks were popular in the 1910s and 1920s...
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    directed by Reginald Barker, written by Melchior Lengyel, and starring Sessue Hayakawa, Gladys Brockwell, Frank Borzage, Henry Kotani and Leona Hutton. It...
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    Tsuru Aoki (redirect from Tsuruko Hayakawa)
    woman portrayed by Aoki. The film also starred Sessue Hayakawa and featured actress Gladys Brockwell. Hayakawa and Aoki eventually made more than 20 films...
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    classics became the first Japanese actor since Sessue Hayakawa to have international fame. But where Hayakawa became a sex symbol because he was romantic...
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  • narrow, stereotypical characters. Early Asian American actors such as Sessue Hayakawa, Anna May Wong, and Bruce Lee encountered a movie-making culture and...
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    Sessue Hayakawa produced the film and played the lead role. The rest of the cast includes Marin Sais, Howard Davies, Mary Anderson, and Hayakawa's wife...
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    Paramount Pictures, and starring Anna May Wong as Princess Ling Moy, Sessue Hayakawa as Ah Kee, and Warner Oland as Dr. Fu Manchu (for his third and final...
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    melodramas, action pictures, and comedic shorts. Pauline Frederick and Sessue Hayakawa were the major stars of its R-C period. Subsequently, Evelyn Brent...
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  • and the University of California San Diego. He is also the author of Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom and The Aesthetics of Shadow:...
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  • (1908–1990) William S. Hart (1864–1946) Laurence Harvey (1928–1973) Sessue Hayakawa (1886–1973) Sterling Hayden (1916–1986) George "Gabby" Hayes (1885–1969)...
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    create a biopic entitled Hollywood Zen based on the life of Issei actor Sessue Hayakawa. The script had been allegedly completed and set to film in Los Angeles...
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    Charles Miller, featuring Tsuru Aoki in the title role and Sessue Hayakawa. Tsuru Aoki Sessue Hayakawa Kisaburo Kurihara Chick Morrison George Osborne A 35...
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  • short film starring Sessue Hayakawa and produced by his Haworth Pictures Corporation. Miyao, Daisuke (7 March 2007). Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and...
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  • foster family, and his heroic actions during the Battle of Saipan. Sessue Hayakawa played the role of Japanese commander at Saipan. In Depression-era...
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  • drama film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Pierre Richard-Willm, Sessue Hayakawa and Michiko Tanaka. It is based on a novel of the same title by Maurice...
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    based on Pearl S. Buck's 1948 novel of the same name. The film stars Sessue Hayakawa, Mickey Curtis, Kōji Shitara, and Hiroyuki Ōta. In the film, two boys...
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    Worthington and produced by Sessue Hayakawa's Haworth Pictures Corporation. An island is ruled by a prince (Sessue Hayakawa) who mistakenly believes he...
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    French silent crime drama film directed by Roger Lion and starring Sessue Hayakawa, Huguette Duflos and Max Maxudian. The film's sets were designed by...
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    All-American look, with Valentino the opposite; he eventually supplanted Sessue Hayakawa as Hollywood's most popular "exotic" male lead. By 1919, he had carved...
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