And yet Sessue Hayakawa still seems far ahead of us today. "He really is sort of extraordinary," says Stephen Gong, the executive director of San Francisco's Center for Asian-American Media.

Two silent pictures featuring Sessue Hayakawa, the only Asian star of the American silent screen. In Charles Swickard’s The Devil’s Claim (1920, 65 min.), Hayakawa plays a Persian novelist in ...

Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese actor who achieved fame in early 20th-century American cinema, is a notable figure in the history of Great Neck. Born in 1889, Hayakawa’s career spanned several ...

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and as part of that celebration, Turner Classic Movies is recognizing famed Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa as its May 2024 Star of the Month.

1918: Sessue Hayakawa creates a film studio Silent film actor Sessue Hayakawa is considered the first Asian American movie star, and, arguably, there hasn’t been a bigger one since. By 1918 ...

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A British POW colonel orders his men to build and also sabotage a strategically important railway bridge for their Japanese captor in the Burmese jungle.