Sessue Hayakawa
Sessue Hayakawa
Sessue Hayakawawas a Japanese actor who starred in American, French, German, British, and Japanese films. Hayakawa was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood during the silent era of the 1910s and 1920s. He was the first actor of Asian descent to find stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe. His "broodingly handsome" good looks and typecasting as an exotic villain with sexual dominance made him a heartthrob among American women during a time of racial...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth10 June 1889
CountryJapan
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.
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.
My one ambition is to play a hero.
I have come East to find what the public likes.