Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom by Daisuke Miyao

Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom

Daisuke Miyao

379 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced
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While the actor Sessue Hayakawa (1886-1973) is perhaps best known today for his Oscar-nominated turn as a Japanese military officer in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), in the early twentieth century he was an internationally renowned silent fi...

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