Kintarô Hayakawa Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Sessue Hayakawa (?? ??, Hayakawa Sessh?, June 10, 1889 – November 23, 1973) was a Japanese Issei actor who starred in American, Japanese, French, German, and British films. Hayakawa was active at the outset of the American film industry. He was the first and remains one of the few Asian actors to find stardom in the United States and Europe. He is the first Asian American as well as the first Japanese American movie star and the first Asian-American Leading Man. His "broodingly handsome" good looks and typecasting as a sinister villain with sexual dominance made him a heartthrob among American women, and the first male sex symbol of Hollywood, several years in advance of Rudolph Valentino. During those early years, Hayakawa was as well known and as popular as Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks, although today his name is largely unknown to the public.His popularity, sex appeal, and extravagant lifestyle (e.g., his wild parties and his gold-plated Pierce-Arrow) may have fed tension within segments of American society and led to discriminatory stereotypes and the desexualization of Asian men in American productions, something that continues to today in Modern Hollywood, as exemplified by the controversial character of I.Y. Yunioshi in Breakfast At Tiffany's. Hayakawa refused to adopt the negative stereotypes. He abandoned Hollywood for European cinema and there he was treated equally. Hayakawa's friendships with American actors led him to return to Hollywood. He was one of the highest paid stars of his time, earning $5,000 per week in 1915, and $2 million per year through his own production company during the 1920s. He starred in over eighty movies, and two of his films stand in the United States National Film Registry.Of his English-language films, Hayakawa is probably best known for his role as Colonel Saito in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai, for which he received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1957. He also appeared in the 1950 film Three Came Home and as the pirate leader in Disney's Swiss Family Robinson in 1960.In addition to his film acting career, Hayakawa was a theatre actor, film and theatre producer, film director, screenwriter, novelist, martial artist, member of the French Resistance, and a Zen master.
During the high point of his career, Hayakawa and wife Tsuru Aoki lived in a landmark home, built in the style of a French castle, at the corner of Argyle and Franklin streets in Hollywood. Demolished in 1956, this corner is now the site of the Franklin Street entrance to the Hollywood / 101 Freeway.
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He and his wife Tsuru Aoki were famous for their lavish parties during the early 1920s. According to historian Kalton C. Lahue, they held frequent luncheons for 150 guests, buffet suppers for as many as 900 and sit-down dinners for 250.
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According to silent film historian Kalton C. Lahue, Hayakawa owned a gold-plated Pierce Arrow, and hired a liveried footman to go along with it. When fellow actor Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle also acquired the same type of car, Hayakawa donated his no longer one-of-a-kind auto to the Long Island Fire Department.
His father belonged to the military nobility but he left the Naval Academy for a theatrical stage career. He worked with the female tragic star Sada Yacco. Then he traveled through Europe, studying the classics, and returned to Japan where he presented works by William Shakespeare ("Otelo" in his own translation), Henrik Ibsen and others, in the Imperial Dramatic Company. During a US tour in 1913, legendary producer-director Thomas H. Ince noticed him and prompted him into a film career playing exotic villains.
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His father had been the governor of the Chiba Prefecture in Japan.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Junjô nijûsô
1967
Tajima
The Daydreamer
1966
The Mole (voice)
Route 66
1963
TV Series
Takasuka
The Big Wave
1961
The Old Man
Swiss Family Robinson
1960
Kuala, Pirate Chief
Hell to Eternity
1960
Gen. Matsui
Green Mansions
1959
Runi
The Geisha Boy
1958
Mr. Sikita
Wagon Train
1958
TV Series
Sakae Ito
The Red Skelton Hour
1958
TV Series
Japanese Officer
Studio One in Hollywood
1958
TV Series
Dr. Sato
Kraft Theatre
1958
TV Series
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
Colonel Saito
House of Bamboo
1955
Inspector Kito
Nihon yaburezu
1954
Kurama Tengu to Katsu Kaishû
1953
Awanokami Katsu
Onna kanja himon - Akô rôshi
1953
Sakon Tachibana
Re mizeraburu: kami to jiyu no hata
1950
Les Misérables: Gods and Demons
1950
Harukanari haha no kuni
1950
Joe Hayami
Three Came Home
1950
Colonel Suga
Tokyo Joe
1949
Baron Kimura
Quartier chinois
1947
Tchang
Le cabaret du grand large
1946
Professeur Wang
Le soleil de minuit
1943
Matsui
Malaria
1943
Saïdi
Gambling Hell
1942
Ying Tchaï
Patrouille blanche
1942
Halloway
Tempête sur l'Asie
1938
Le prince Ling
Forfaiture
1937
Prince Hu-Long
Yoshiwara
1937
Ysamo, Kuli
Atarashiki tsuchi
1937
Iwao Yamato
Kuni o mamoru mono: Nichiren
1935
Nichiren
Tôjin Okichi
1935
Townsend Harris
Bakugeki hikôtai
1934
Taiyo wa higashi yori
1932
Kenji
Daughter of the Dragon
1931
Ah Kee
Sessue Hayakawa in 'The Man Who Laughed Last'
1929
Short
I Have Killed
1924
Hideo - l'antiquaire japonais
Sen Yan's Devotion
1924
Sen Yan
The Danger Line
1924
Marquis Yorisaka
The Great Prince Shan
1924
Prince Shan
La bataille
1923
Le Marquis Yorisaka
The Vermilion Pencil
1922
Tse Chan / The Unknown / Li Chan
Five Days to Live
1922
Tai Leung
The Swamp
1921
Wang
Where Lights Are Low
1921
T''Su Wong Shih
Black Roses
1921
Yoda
The First Born
1921
Chan Wang
An Arabian Knight
1920
Ahmed
Li Ting Lang
1920
Li Ting Lang
The Devil's Claim
1920
Akbar Khan / Hassan
The Brand of Lopez
1920
Vasco Lopez
The Beggar Prince
1920
Nikki / Prince
The Tong Man
1919
Luk Chen
The Illustrious Prince
1919
Prince Maiyo
Bonds of Honor
1919
Yamashito / Sasamoto
The Dragon Painter
1919
Tatsu - the Dragon Painter
The Gray Horizon
1919
Yamo Masata
The Man Beneath
1919/I
Dr. Chindi Ashutor
His Debt
1919
Goto Mariyama
The Courageous Coward
1919
Suki Iota
A Heart in Pawn
1919
Tomaya
The Temple of Dusk
1918
Akira
Banzai
1918
Short
The American General
His Birthright
1918
Yukio
The City of Dim Faces
1918
Jang Lung
The Bravest Way
1918
Kara Tamura
The White Man's Law
1918
John A. Genghis
The Honor of His House
1918
Count Ito Onato
The Hidden Pearls
1918
Tom Garvin
The Secret Game
1917
Nara-Nara
The Call of the East
1917
Arai Takada
Hashimura Togo
1917
Hashimura Togo
Forbidden Paths
1917
Sato
The Jaguar's Claws
1917
El Jaguar
The Bottle Imp
1917
Lopaka
Each to His Kind
1917
Rhandah
The Victoria Cross
1916
Azimoolah
The Soul of Kura San
1916
Toyo
The Honorable Friend
1916
Makino
Alien Souls
1916
Sakata
Temptation
1915
Opera Admirer
The Cheat
1915
Hishuru Tori (original release) / Haka Arakau (in 1918 re-release)
The Secret Sin
1915
Lin Foo
The Clue
1915
Nogi
The Chinatown Mystery
1915
Short
Yo Hong
The Famine
1915
Short
Horisho
After Five
1915
Oki - the Valet
The Last of the Line
1914
Short
Tiah - Gray Otter's Son
Mother of the Shadows
1914
Short
Running Elk
The Vigil
1914
Short
Kenjiro
Nipped
1914
Short
Taro Kamura
The Hateful God
1914
Short unconfirmed
The Typhoon
1914
Tokorama
The Death Mask
1914
Short
Running Wolf
The Village 'Neath the Sea
1914
Short
Red Elk
The Curse of Caste
1914
Short
Kato
A Relic of Old Japan
1914
Short
Koto
A Tragedy of the Orient
1914
Short
Kato
The Wrath of the Gods
1914
Lord Yamaki
The Ambassador's Envoy
1914
Short
Kamuri
The Geisha
1914
Short
Takura
The Courtship of O San
1914
Short
Shotoku
O Mimi San
1914
Short
Yorotomo
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Swamp
1921
producer
Where Lights Are Low
1921
producer
Black Roses
1921
producer
The First Born
1921
producer
The Man Beneath
1919/I
producer
His Birthright
1918
producer
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Taiyo wa higashi yori
1932
La bataille
1923
co-director
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Swamp
1921
story
His Birthright
1918
story
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Pretty Dudes
2016
TV Series in memory of - 1 episode
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The 43rd Annual Academy Awards
1971
TV Special
Himself - Audience Member
Public Broadcast Laboratory
1967
TV Series
Himself
Here's Hollywood
1961-1962
TV Series
Himself
The Steve Allen Plymouth Show
1959
TV Series
Himself - Guest
The Linkletter Show
1958
TV Series
Himself
The 30th Annual Academy Awards
1958
TV Special
Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Supporting Role
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
1958
Documentary short
Himself
Running Hollywood
1932
Short
Himself
Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks
1931
Documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Night Life in Hollywood
1922
Himself
Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 22-F
1922
Documentary short
Himself
Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 17
1921
Documentary short
Himself
Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 6
1920
Documentary short
Himself
Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 3
1920
Documentary short
Himself
Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 1
1920
Documentary short
Himself
United States Fourth Liberty Loan Drive
1918
Short
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema