Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom

by Daisuke Miyao

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 film star, as recognizable as Charlie Chaplin or Douglas Fairbanks. In this critical study of Hayakawa's stardom, Daisuke Miyao reconstructs the Japanese actor's remarkable career, from the films that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822339692
• ISBN13: 9780822339694
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.9"