Highest rated movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Lowest rated movie: Green Mansions (1959)
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Movies starring Sessue Hayakawa have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.
The Bridge on the River Kwai - released in 1957 - is Sessue Hayakawa's highest rated movie, with a score of 84% based on 732 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Sessue Hayakawa is Green Mansions - released in 1959 - with a score of 46% based on 22 reviews.
Sessue Hayakawa (June 10, 1889 – November 23, 1973) was a Japanese and American Issei (Japanese immigrant) actor who starred in American, Japanese, French, German, and British films. Hayakawa was the first and one of the few Asian actors to find stardom in the United States as well as Europe. Between the mid-1910s and the late 1920s, he was as well known as actors Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks. He was one of the highest paid stars of his time; making $5,000 a week in 1915, and $2 million a year via his own production company during the 1920s. He starred in over 80 movies and has two films in the U. S. National Film Registry. His international stardom transitioned both silent films and talkies.
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 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, and an ordained Zen master.
Sessue Hayakawa has acted in films with Teru Shimada, Tetsu Komai, Reiko Sato and Rollin Moriyama.
Sessue Hayakawa has worked with these film directors: Cecil B. DeMille, Mel Ferrer, Samuel Fuller and David Lean.
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