Togo Yamamoto
Actor · 1886 – 1952 · Yokohama, Japan
Movies23
Movie8.0ComedyDramaRichard Boyd, a wealthy idler who has inherited the Boyd Shipping Company, decides to prove himself to his fiancée, Pauline. A fleet of ships on which the company has an option is coveted by Oriental merchant-tycoon J. Young. Aided by Andrew Dunn, general manager of the Boyd concern, Young has Boyd and Pauline shanghaied; and Sam, his Negro valet, follows. Following a spectacular shipwreck, the couple are rescued; there is a race between a hydroplane and a motorboat; but after a series of exploits in Young's stronghold, Richard, aided by Sam, gets the ships and the girl.
Reported Missing
1922 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaComing to the U.S. from his native land to study Western civilization and continue work for his government young Chinaman Tsing Yu-Ch'ing attends an American university, then launches a Chinese newspaper in New York City. He also falls in love with the lovely Kathleen Levinsky who is blind. The daughter of a Jewish father and an Irish mother. Kathleen's life is barren of love, and she gladly accepts his attentions. When Dr. Hardwick, a classmate from college, calls on Tsing and meets Kathleen, he offers to cure her blindness through surgery. The operation is a success, but the newly sighted Kathleen is visibly upset by Tsing's appearance. After saving Kathleen from a killer known as the Hatchetman, Tsing returns to China and commits suicide, believing he will find eternal love with her in the afterlife.
Pagan Love
1920 · 1 votes
Movie6.3DramaA white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.
A Tale of Two Worlds
1921 · 3 votes
Movie6.8DramaWealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a subway accident. Markley offers to marry her in name only to protect her new son.
Something to Think About
1920 · 6 votes
Movie7.0DramaAdventureIn the gold fields of the Canadian Northwest, a man is falsely accused of a crime and determines that a lookalike is responsible.
The River's End
1920 · 1 votes
Movie9.0Directed by Daisuke Itō.
Movie3.3DramaChinese merchant Wing Lung and Elizabeth Mendall, an American, marry and have a son named Jang Lung. Because Elizabeth wants Jang Lung to be raised as a Christian, Wing Lung locks her in the cellar and she becomes insane. Jang meets Marcell Matthews at an Eastern university, and she returns with him to San Francisco to be married.
The City of Dim Faces
1918 · 3 votes
Movie7.0DramaJack Spurlock, the lazy son of a railroad tycoon, is estranged from his fiancée, Anita Gray, because he refuses to work. When his father disowns him, Jack is forced to take responsibility and save his father from ruin with Anita's help.
A Self-Made Man
1922 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaThe Lure of Jade
1921 · 1 votes
Movie5.7DramaThe Chinese prince T'Su Wong Shih loves Quan Yin, the daughter of a gardener, but his uncle wants him to marry a girl of his own class. Leaving to study in the United States, the young man promises his beloved that they two will be together soon. Having finished university, one day T'Su Wong Shih visits the market of San Francisco, and at an auction of slaves, he finds Quan Yin auctioned. To save her, he agrees to pay a price of five thousand dollars but, not possessing the full amount, he makes a deal with the auctioneer for a three-year extension in which he must work to raise the money needed to rescue the girl. T'Su Wong Shih has no great success until he manages to win a large sum in a lottery. However, Quan Yin is now in danger because a Chinese gangster wants to have it and, to do that, goes to threaten the auctioneer who is forced to comply. T'Su Wong Shih is then engaged in a struggle to liberate his beloved: he defeats the gangster, rescues Quan Yin and claims her as his...
Where Lights Are Low
1921 · 3 votes
Movie6.0Directed by Daisuke Itô.
Movie8.0DramaAfter Ned Hamilton is rejected by his girlfriend, he travels to Japan where he hears an old legend about the Willow Tree Princess, who kills herself so that her lover will go off to battle. When he makes a purchase from Tomotada, an image maker, he meets his pretty daughter O-Riu, and they recreate the events of the legend.
The Willow Tree
1920 · 1 votes
Movie6.2CrimeA convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with the businessman's son.
Flesh and Blood
1922 · 9 votes
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Movie6.3DramaCrimeIn Depression-era Japan, a man commits a robbery to save his critically ill daughter and escapes with the funds, but complications arise.
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MovieDramaA modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.
Movie8.0HistoryYamanaka Sadao's fourth feature film. The Life of Bangaku
Movie9.0ComedyLost film. Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journalist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to investigate a secret club for wealthy voyeurs. Considered to be a lost film.
MovieActionHistoryMiyamoto Musashi is challenged by a series of opponents in this follow up to Miyamoto Musashi's Kongoin Ketto (1942, also called Nitoryu Kaigen) also directed by Ito Daisuke.
Movie6.5DramaPeter kidnaps Patricia to prevent her from marrying the wrong man.
Head Winds
1925 · 2 votes
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Officer Terence Shannon is the head man of the Los Angeles Flying Squadron. In this capacity, Shannon does battles with ruthless opium smugglers in LA's Chinatown
The Midnight Patrol
1918 · 1 votes
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Japanese silent film from 1930.