Sessue Hayakawa filmography

The following lists the film appearances of the actor and film producer Sessue Hayakawa. Hayakawa was one of the first Asian actors 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.

Advertisement in Moving Picture World, May 1919.

Producer

• The Swamp (1921)
• Where Lights Are Low (1921)
• Black Roses (1921)
• The First Born (1921)

Director

• Taiyo wa higashi yori (The Sun Rise from the East) (1932)
• La Bataille (1923) (co-director)

Writer

• The Swamp (1921)
• His Birthright (1918)

Appearances as himself

• Running Hollywood (1932)
• Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks (1931)
• Night Life in Hollywood (1922)
• United States Fourth Liberty Loan Drive (1918)

Television appearances

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

Early work

• The Death Mask (1914)
• The Village 'Neath the Sea (1914)
• The Curse of Caste (1914)
• Star of the North (1914)
• A Relic of Old Japan (1914)
• A Tragedy of the Orient (1914)
• The Ambassador's Envoy (1914)
• The Geisha (1914)
• The Courtship of O San (1914)
• O Mimi San (1914)
• The Last of the Line (1914)
• Mother of the Shadows (1914)
• The Vigil (1914)
• The Hateful God (1914)
• Nipped (1914)

Thomas Ince Films

• The Sacrifice (1914)
• The Wrath of the Gods (1914)
• The Typhoon (1914)

Famous Player Lasky Films

• The Temple of Dusk (1918)
• His Birthright (1918)
• The City of Dim Faces (1918)
• The Bravest Way (1918)
• The White Man's Law (1918)
• The Honor of His House (1918)
• The Hidden Pearls (1918)
• Banzai (1918)
• The Secret Game (1917)
• The Call of the East (1917) .... Arai Takada
• Hashimura Togo (1917) .... Hashimura Togo
• Forbidden Paths (1917) .... Sato
• The Jaguar's Claws (1917) .... El Jaguar
• The Bottle Imp (1917) .... Lopaka
• Each to His Kind (1917) .... Rhandah
• The Victoria Cross (1916)
• The Soul of Kura San (1916)
• The Honorable Friend (1916)
• Alien Souls (1916)
• Temptation (1915)
• The Cheat (1915)
• The Secret Sin (1915)
• The Clue (1915)
• The Chinatown Mystery (1915)
• The Famine (1915)
• After Five (1915)

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.

• The Swamp (1921)
• Where Lights Are Low (1921)
• Black Roses (1921)
• The First Born (1921)
• An Arabian Knight (1920)
• Li Ting Lang (1920)
• The Devil's Claim (1920)
• The Brand of Lopez (1920)
• The Beggar Prince (1920)
• The Tong Man (1919)
• The Illustrious Prince (1919)
• The Dragon Painter (1919)
• Bonds of Honor (1919)
• The Gray Horizon (1919)
• The Man Beneath (1919)
• His Debt (1919)
• A Heart in Pawn (1919)
• The Courageous Coward (1919)

European, American and Japanese Films

• Quartier chinois (1947)
• Le Cabaret du grand large (1946)
• Malaria (1943)
• Le Soleil de minuit (1943)
• Macao, l'enfer du jeu (1939/1942)
• Patrouille blanche (1942)
• Tempête sur l'Asie (1938) French
• Forfaiture (1937)
• Yoshiwara (1937) French
• The Daughter of the Samurai (1937) German-Japanese
• Tojin Okichi (1935)
• Bakugeki hikôtai (1934)
• Taiyo wa higashi yori (1932)
• Daughter of the Dragon (1931) USA (Paramount Pictures)
• The Man Who Laughed Last (1929)
• J'ai tué! (1924)
• The Danger Line (1924)
• Sen Yan's Devotion (1924)
• The Great Prince Shan (1924)
• La Bataille (1923)
• The Vermilion Pencil (1922) USA
• Five Days to Live (1922)

Final Films

• The Daydreamer (1966)
• The Big Wave (film) (1961)
• Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
• Hell to Eternity (1960)
• Green Mansions (1959) .... Runi
• The Geisha Boy (1958)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
• House of Bamboo (1955)
• Re mizeraburu: kami to jiyu no hata (1950)
• Re mizeraburu: kami to akuma (1950)
• Harukanari haha no kuni (1950)
• Three Came Home (1950)
• Tokyo Joe (1949)

Bibliography

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