Kintarō Hayakawa, known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa, was a Japanese actor. He was a popular star and matinée idol in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe.
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Sessue Hayakawa in front of his "castle" house in his car, 1922
Advertisement in Exhibitors Herald for the American drama film His Birthright with Hayakawa, Marin Sais, and Mary Anderson, 1918
Hayakawa costumed as the Prince of the Island of Desire in a publicity still for the 1920 silent fantasy film The Beggar Prince
Hayakawa with a flight attendant in New York, c. 1960
Hayakawa and his wife, Tsuru Aoki, in the 1919 film The Dragon Painter
Hayakawa's star on the Hollywood Walk of FameFilmography 40
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Swiss Family Robinson
House of Bamboo
The Cheat
The Geisha Boy
Tokyo Joe
Green Mansions
Three Came Home
Daughter of the Dragon
Hell to Eternity
The Dragon Painter
The Daydreamer
The Wrath of the Gods
The Tong Man
Gambling Hell
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
Forfaiture
The Last of the Line
The Secret Game
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
His Birthright
The Daughter of the Samurai
The City of Dim Faces
The Man Beneath
Where Lights Are Low
John Gunther's High Road
Yoshiwara
The Death Mask
The Temple Of Dusk
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
The First BornLes Miserables I: God and the Devil
The Big Wave
日本敗れず
Bonds of Honor
An Arabian Knight
The Swamp
The Motherland Far Far Away
Le Soleil de minuit108 credits on file
Television 3
Wagon Train
Taikouki
Asian AmericansAwards 1
In their orbit 1
Connected to Sessue 6
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Kintarō Hayakawa, known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa, was a Japanese actor. He was a popular star and matinée idol in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe. His "broodingly handsome" good looks and typecasting as a sexually dominant villain made him a heartthrob among American women during a time of racial discrimination, and he became one of the first male sex symbols of Hollywood.
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