Sessue Hayakawa - biography

“My one ambition is to play a hero.”

“I like America anyway.  In Japan we are much more formal.  If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow.  They keep bowing without exchanging a word.  Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.”

“I have come East to find what the public likes.”

“I shall ask to see whether they want me in dress clothes or in Japanese.”

“That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again.”

Sessue Hayakawa has appeared in the following films:
After Five (1915)
Temptation (1915)
The Cheat (1915)
The Man Beneath (1919)
The First Born (1921)
Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
Running Hollywood (1932)
Forfaiture (1937)
Yoshiwara (1937)
Tempête sur l’Asie (1938)
Macao, l’enfer du jeu (1942)
Le Soleil de minuit (1943)
Le Cabaret du grand large (1946)
Quartier chinois (1947)
Tokyo Joe (1949)
Three Came Home (1950)
House of Bamboo (1955)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Green Mansions (1959)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
The Love Goddesses (1965)
The Daydreamer (1966)