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	Sessue Hayakawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sessue Hayakawa (早川雪洲 Hayakawa Sessue, June 10, 1889 - November 23, 1973) was a Japanese actor in both Japanese and American films, including two in the U.S. National Film Registry.
		Hayakawa was on vacation in Los Angeles when he drifted into The Japanese Playhouse in Little Tokyo and became caught up in acting and staging plays; this was when he first assumed the name Sessue Hayakawa.
		For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Sessue Hayakawa was awarded a star on the legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1645 Vine Street, in Hollywood, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sessue_Hayakawa (1692 words)

	Sessue Hayakawa 1/3 \| Asian American Personalities \| GoldSea
		The life of Hollywood idol Sessue Hayakawa was as glorious as the legend that has grown up around his Hollywood career.
		Hayakawa was also Paramount's first choice for the role of The Sheik that launched Rudolph Valentino's career in 1918.
		The future matinee idol was born Hayakawa Kintaro on June 10, 1890 in Chiba, Japan, the second eldest son of the provincial governor.
	goldsea.com /Personalities/Hayakawas/hayakawas.html (493 words)

	Sessue Hayakawa 3/3 \| Asian American Personalities \| GoldSea
		In 1930 Hayakawa returned to Japan and produced a Japanese-language stage version of The Three Muskateers, and adopted two girls and one boy.
		In 1937 Hayakawa went to France to act in Yoshiwara and found himself trapped for the balance of the war by the German occuopation.
		Hayakawa's performance was nominated for a supporting actor category.
	goldsea.com /Personalities2/Hayakawas/hayakawas3.html (585 words)

	Tsuru Aoki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her follow-up film was the 1914 Ince produced O Mimi San, which starred the American child actress Mildred Harris and a handsome young newcomer named Sessue Hayakawa who Aoki had acted with onstage at the Japanese Theatre the previous year.
		Hayakawa and Aoki would eventually make more than twenty films together throughout the 1910s and 1920s.
		After a series of moderately successful Ince produced two-reel serials, Tsuru Aoki's career in the United States began to falter (while her husband's career began to build momentum) and the couple travelled to France in 1923 and filmed the popular Édouard-Émile Violet directed drama La Bataille.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tsuru_Aoki (493 words)

	Sessue Hayakawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Born Kintaro Hayakawa in the city of Chiba on the island of Honshu, he originally aspired to join the navy but was prevented by a partial hearing loss.
		Hayakawa broke into films in 1914 after producer Thomas Ince, the father of the studio system, saw Hayakawa perform and signed him to a film contract.
		In the mid-'60s, Hayakawa retired from acting, moved to Japan, and became a Zen priest and a drama teacher.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+31162 (360 words)

	Silent Era : People : Actors : Sessue Hayakawa
		Sessue Hayakawa, actor, producer, star of Cecil B. DeMille’s sexploitation shocker The Cheat (1915), has the distinction of being Hollywood’s first Asian male film star.
		Hayakawa eventually hit the Hollywood ‘comeback’ trail in 1931, making his talkie debut in Anna May Wong’s Daughter of the Dragon (1931).
		Hayakawa returned to Hollywood in 1949, costarring with Humphrey Bogart in Tokyo Joe (1949) and with Claudette Colbert in Three Came Home (1950).
	www.silentera.com /people/actors/Hayakawa-Sessue.html (613 words)

	Films between 1919 and 1939 with U.S. Asians!
		Hayakawa is probably best remembered for his role as the prison-camp commander in the excellent war film " The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957), for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
		"Synopsis: Tatsu (Sessue Hayakawa), a strangely disturbed artist who lives as a hermit in the mountains of Japan, is convinced that his fiancée, a beautiful princess, has been captured and turned into a dragon.
		The performances by Hayakawa and Tsuru Aoki, his frequent co-star and wife, are a revelation.
	us_asians.tripod.com /film-1919-1939.html (3814 words)

	Movie Info for The Cheat on MSN Movies
		Logically, Ward should now be charged with the crime, but this is 1915: the all-white courtroom spectators pounce upon Hayakawa, nearly killing the poor fellow, and Ward and her husband are exonerated.
		Depending upon where this film was shown, Sessue Hayakawa's character was either Japanese or Burmese: either way, he was regarded as the villain of the piece almost solely on the basis of his race.
		Interestingly, Hayakawa was elevated to stardom on the basis of The Cheat, permitting him to play far more sympathetic characters in the future.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=16042 (317 words)

	Milestone Films - Movie Details - Dragon Painter, The - by: William Worthington
		Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Toyo Fujita and Edward Peil, Sr.
		Remembered mostly for his magnificent performance as the Japanese officer in The Bridge over the River Kwai, few filmgoers realize that Sessue Hayakawa was one of the great stars of the silent cinema.
		Hayakawa became so popular and powerful that he was able to start Haworth Pictures to control his own destiny.
	www.milestonefilms.com /movie.php/dragon (441 words)

	Replies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One of her co-stars, Sessue Hayakawa, played a somewhat sympathetic Japanese colonel in charge of the internment camps.
		Hayakawa would later go on to play the Oscar-nominated role of Colonel Saito in "Bridge Over the River Kwai." Hayakawa was an excellent actor.
		Hayakawa lived in a chateau outside of Paris during the WWII German Occupation.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1145126/replies?c=8 (272 words)

	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
		Granted, Nicholson and some other officers spend an extended period caged during the early parts of the movie; the torture was meant by Japanese Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) to break their wills.
		Hayakawa neatly plays the dilemmas faced by the beleaguered Japanese colonel.
		Hayakawa makes us feel the pain experienced by the character and prevents him from becoming a gross caricature.
	www.dvdmg.com /kwai.shtml (2319 words)

	The Bridge on the River Kwai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hayakawa and Guinness collide as Hayakawa tries to "break" the morale of the prisoners and make them build a bridge that is important to the Japanese war effort.
		Instead, the movie is built around the characters and strong acting from Guinness, Holden, James Donald, Jack Hawkins, and Sessue Hayakawa.
		This movie doesn't reward you lots of explosions and blood, but instead it builds the characters up until the suspense becomes palpable in the last 20 minutes, as you sit on the edge of your chair wondering what each man will do in the end, and what the final result will be.
	www.lomovie.com /military_-_war/by_theme/movies_443.html (808 words)

	Meniscus Magazine - 2006 New York Asian American International Film Festival - Review: "The Slanted Screen"
		Hayakawa, whose prolific career spanned six decades from the days of silent film throughout the prime of Technicolor, was the first Asian actor nominated for an Academy Award for his role in “Bridge on the River Kwai” in 1957.
		Compare the lack of public knowledge of Hayakawa’s longevity to the instant recognition of the Long Duk Dong character in “Sixteen Candles,” and there lies the premise behind “The Slanted Screen,” a documentary focusing on the image of Asian American masculinity in film.
		“In Sessue Hayakawa’s case, he just happened to hit that moment of time when there was a tremendous amount of interest in Japan,” Adachi said.
	www.meniscuszine.com /issue16/aaiff_2006/slanted_screen_20060715.html (775 words)

	J'ai Tué! \| Cast & Crew \| MTV Movies
		Originally released in 1924 and fully restored in 1990 by the Cinematheque Française, this silent French melodrama is especially notable for starring Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa.
		The story centers on the wealthy wife of a professor of "Orientalism." She is being harassed by a pair of con men who are flmailing her for an alleged indiscretion.
		Her old friend and business associate Hideo (Hayakawa) has just moved to Tokyo after losing his family in the country's devastating 1923 earthquake.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/111782/castcrew.jhtml (523 words)

	Sessue Hayakawa - Moviefone
		Sessue Hayakawa The Hollywood Legend Asian American Personalities GoldSea.
		For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Sessue Hayakawa was awarded a...
		Sessue Hayakawa - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Sessue Hayakawa Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/sessue-hayakawa/31162/main (87 words)

	TIMEasia.com: Japan - As the World Sees It: 2001
		Fannie Ward, Utake Abe, and Sessue Hayakawa in Cecille B. DeMille's "The Cheat".
		Hayakawa was the movies' first ambassador from this remote empire.
		Hayakawa's renown declined in the early '20s, and Hollywood ignored the Japanese for two decades.
	www.time.com /time/asia/features/japan_view/movies.html (1667 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
		Holden starts off as a typically American character, but is given depth through his relationship with Warden, particularly in the scene in which he is "convinced" to lead the demolition expedition.
		Hayakawa occasionally shows a bit of silent technique, but this is appropriate for a character who is speaking much of the time in a second language; much of the power of Saito comes from his broad strokes and gestures.
		The 08m:04s film briefly gives an analysis of why so much of the film works as well as it does; Milius gives most of the credit to the script, but acknowledges the role of the director and the cast in making the film as unforgettable as it is.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=703 (1885 words)

	Sessue Hayakawa (Spotlight #5) - Yellowworld Forums
		During Hollywood's silent screen era Japanese screen star Sessue Hayakawa rivaled Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and John Barrymore in popularity with film audiences.
		It leads one to believe that Hayakawa committed suicide at age 18, when actually it was an attempt and he didn't die.
		It was mainly practiced by Samurai in ancient Japan, and was regarded as an act of great honor, usually when a battle was lost.
	forums.yellowworld.org /showthread.php?t=8563 (1349 words)

	eBay - sessue hayakawa, Movie Memorabilia, Autographs-Original items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sessue Hayakawa "Early Star" 8x10 Autographed # 1
		Honor of His House 1918 MP A Poster Sessue Hayakawa
		Sessue Hayakawa The Swamp City Slums Movie 1922
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=sessue+hayakawa&...&krd=1 (295 words)

	"Three Came Home" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		Keith and her husband (Claudette Colbert and Patric Knowles) along with their young son George (Mark Kenning) are at first kept under house arrest and are later taken to prison camps (one camp for men, another for women and underage children).
		Suga (Sessue Hayakawa), commander of the area occupation force and later commander of the prisons, is very friendly to Mrs.
		This film isn't as harsh as more modern productions of its type; but there is a scene of attempted rape, a scene of mass killing of men trying to scale a fence, and the continual suffering (hunger, sickness, mistreatment) in the women and children's camp.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2000/threecamehome.html (348 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - David Lean - 1957 - Bridge on the River Kwai Movies Review
		Certain images are indelible—the ones that remained with me after 43 years include the prisoners of war whistling the “Colonel Bogey March,” Nicholson (Alec Guinness) challenging the Japanese colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) and later constructing a solid bridge, and the blowing up of the bridge.
		Sessue Hayakawa is effective as the inept Japanese colonel who attempts to be hardcore, but when confronted by the Alec Guinness character, discovers he must find ways to save face.
		Hayakawa’s a little old for the role at 68, and prior to The Bridge on the River Kwai, he had primarily appeared in silent movies.
	www.culturedose.net /review.php?rid=10001894 (1372 words)

	Amazon.ca: Bridge on the River Kwai (Widescreen): DVD: David Lean,William Holden,Alec Guinness,Jack Hawkins,Sessue ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hayakawa's cruel camp commander is gradually revealed as a victim of his own sense of honor, Holden's callow opportunist proves heroic without softening his nihilistic edge, and Guinness (who won a Best Actor Oscar, one of the production's seven wins) disappears as only he can into Nicholson's brittle, duty-driven, delusional psychosis.
		In a lesser film, for instance, characters like Col. Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), Col. Nicholson (Alec Guinness, in a performance that won a deserved Academy Award---as did the movie itself), and Shears (William Holden) might have been reduced to one-dimensional stereotypes.
		Here, they have fascinating complexities that help drive the plot and serve its theme, which can pretty much be summed up by the final words of the movie: "Madness, madness!" The beauty here is that both Saito and Nicholson might be mad, but their madness isn't necessarily without justification.
	www.amazon.ca /Bridge-River-Kwai-Widescreen-David/dp/B00004XPPC (2678 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Bridge On The River Kwai [1957]: DVD: William Holden,Jack Hawkins,Alec Guinness,Sessue Hayakawa,James ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The main thrust of the film is the duel of wills between the commanding officer (Sessue Hayakawa) of the camp and the commander (Alec Guinness) of the British prisoners.
		Sessue Hayakawa began making American films in 1914 but spent his World War II years in Japan.
		Hayakawa was also nominated for best supporting actor.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Bridge-River-Kwai-William-Holden/dp/B00004YN4L (2048 words)

	Cecil B. DeMille's Manslaughter/The Cheat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When she loses the money, Ward is afraid to tell her husband Jack Dean, so she arranges to borrow,000 from wealthy oriental Sessue Hayakawa.
		When her husband gives her a gift of,000, Ward tries to call off her deal with Hayakawa, but the enraged oriental calls her a cheat; wrestling her to the floor, he brands the woman with a symbol signifying that she belongs to him.
		She responds to this humiliation by shooting Hayakawa.
	www.bigrockmediastore.com /10585.html (550 words)

	Silent Era : People : Actresses : Tsuru Aoki
		Married to actor Sessue Hayakawa on 1 May 1914.
		Aoki was already an established stage and screen actress in Los Angeles’ Japanese theatre when she and her future husband met in 1913.
		Impressed, Ince signed Hayakawa for a role in The Wrath of the Gods (1914), in which Aoki starred.
	www.silentera.com /people/actresses/Aoki-Tsuru.html (354 words)

	Sessue Hayakawa Biografia
		Attore di teatro (fra l'altro interprete di Otello), esordì nel 1914 in Typhoon, e diede nel 1915 la sua maggiore interpretazione in un violento film realistico di Cecil De Mille, ancora lontano dal regista di supercolossi storici che sarebbe divenuto in seguito.
		Ormai dimenticato, Hayakawa fu scelto nel 1957 da David Lean per interpretare la parte dell'umano comandante giapponese in Il ponte sul fiume Kwai.
		A metà degli anni '60 Hayakawa si ritirò dal mondo dello spettacolo e ritornò in Giappone dove divenne un sacerdote Zen e un'insegnante di recitazione.
	www.mymovies.it /dizionario/Biblio.asp?A=8491 (315 words)

	yellow myths / the yellow peril
		The two most common fantasies portrayed in film are the Asian female seducing the White male and the Asian male seducing the White female.
		This image was probably the first to be depicted in film, in Cecil B. Demille's The Cheat (1915), which starred Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa.
		In it, Tori (Hayakawa) is a sophisticated yet sinister and exotic man who tries to possess a white woman, Edith.
	web.mit.edu /21h.153j/www/aacinema/yellowperil.html (689 words)

	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1956)
		Forced to build the bridge for his captors, Nicholson makes a deal with the head Japanese captor Col. Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) so that the officers don’t have to do any labour but are held responsible for the ones who do.
		Nicholson even goes as far as to have his men stand at formation in the blazing sun until their demands are met, or until they all pass out from heat stroke.
		The irony in the film is the fact that Nicholson stands up to Col. Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), but then takes on the building of the bridge as his own baby!
	www.geocities.com /oscarmovs/kwai.html (756 words)

	Hayakawa, Sessue — Infoplease.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hayakawa - S. Hayakawa former U.S. Senator Born: 7/18/1906 Birthplace: Vancouver, Canada Son of Japanese...
		Daughter of the Dragon (1931) - Starring Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Sessue Hayakawa
		The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957) - Starring William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/0/1/5/7/0/1/A0157017.html (104 words)

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