List of the best Sessue Hayakawa movies: The Bridge on the River Kwai(1957), The Geisha Boy(1958), Tokyo Joe(1949), The Cheat(1915), Daughter of the Dragon(1931), Green Mansions(1959), Swiss Family Robinson(1960) ... ...
War, Drama
UK|USA
1957
161 Minutes
Colonel Saito
William Holden Alec Guinness Sessue Hayakawa Jack Hawkins James Donald Geoffrey Horne Andre Morrell Peter Williams John Boxer Percy Herbert Harold Goodwin
soldier captain rival prisoner of war captor gritty military base bridge burma world war ii munitions construction military battle bombing rivalry quest revenge 1940s
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, not knowing that the allied forces are planning to destroy it.
Comedy
USA
1958
98 Minutes
Mr. Sikita
Jerry Lewis Marie McDonald Sessue Hayakawa Nobu McCarthy Suzanne Pleshette Barton MacLane Robert Hirano
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.
Drama
1949
88 Minutes
Baron Kimura
Humphrey Bogart Florence Marly Sessue Hayakawa Alexander Knox Jerome Courtland Gordon Jones Teru Shimada Hideo Mori Charles Meredith Rhys Williams Lora Lee Michel
pilot ex-wife husband daughter crime boss club owner suspenseful melodramatic patriotic tokyo nightclub government building law office airplane postwar japan expatriates blackmail war crime marriage fatherhood
A GI (Humphrey Bogart) in postwar Tokyo smuggles war criminals for a blackmailer (Sessue Hayakawa) who has kidnapped his daughter.
Drama
1915
55 Minutes
Tori
Fannie Ward Jack Dean Sessue Hayakawa James Neill Jack Yutaka Abbe Dana Ong Hazel Childers
wife husband aristocrat judge socialite juror brash madcap suspenseful long island, n.y. family home murder mystery embezzlement affair lying mystery discovery 1920s
After a wealthy man (Sessue Hayakawa) brands a woman (Fannie Ward) for revoking their loan agreement, she shoots him, and her husband (Jack Dean) takes the blame in court.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
1931
72 Minutes
Ah Kee
Anna May Wong Warner Oland Sessue Hayakawa Bramwell Fletcher Frances Dade Holmes Herbert Lloyd Corrigan
At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman (Anna May Wong) goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.
Romance
USA
1959
101 Minutes
Runi
Audrey Hepburn Anthony Perkins Lee J. Cobb Sessue Hayakawa Henry Silva Nehemiah Persoff Michael Pate Estelle Hemsley
son love interest grandfather native fascinating dreamy intricate venezuela caracas jungle nature war loss romance gold discovery love metamorphosis revenge 1890s
A young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her.
Kids & Family, Adventure
USA
1960
128 Minutes
Kuala, Pirate Chief
John Mills Dorothy McGuire James MacArthur Janet Munro Sessue Hayakawa Tommy Kirk Kevin Corcoran Cecil Parker
mother father son pirate amusing endearing playful island ocean switzerland beach shipwreck survival family adventure discovery 1810s
A Swiss family must survive being shipwrecked on a deserted island.