Toshia Mori
Actor · 1912 – 1995 · Kyoto, Japan
Toshia Mori (born Toshiye Ichioka) was a Japanese actress who moved to the United States at age ten and had a career in American films from the mid 1920s through the late 1930s.
Movies21
Movie6.3DramaRomanceAn American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932 · 104 votes
Movie7.1CrimeMysteryReturning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.
Charlie Chan on Broadway
1937 · 24 votes
Movie5.9CrimeDramaA Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
Blondie Johnson
1933 · 18 votes
Movie6.4ComedyAn American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.
Ambassador Bill
1931 · 5 votes
Movie5.7ComedyMusicWall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl.
Reaching for the Moon
1930 · 13 votes
Movie6.1ComedyDramaAmong the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
Union Depot
1932 · 18 votes
Movie6.5AdventureRomanceA boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "belongs" to Voronsky. Carson must contend with the bandits outside and the conflicting personalities of those trapped inside the inn, as well as dealing with spies among the inn's personnel.
Roar of the Dragon
1932 · 6 votes
Movie7.0DramaJoan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with the beautiful native girl Chita. Chita now feels nothing but hatred for Joan, creating a deadly triangle that leads to an explosive ending.
Fury of the Jungle
1933 · 1 votes
Movie5.4CrimeDramaWhen he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.
The Hatchet Man
1932 · 13 votes
Movie4.2DramaA newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
Young Bride
1932 · 6 votes
Movie6.5DramaRomanceA Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.
Tiger Shark
1932 · 17 votes
Movie5.8DramaRomanceWhen Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.
Mr. Wu
1927 · 22 votes
Movie7.0RomanceComedyA Broadway producer discovers new talent in a small Georgia town and brings them to New York for his new show.
George White's 1935 Scandals
1935 · 2 votes
Movie5.3RomanceDramaA devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.
Way for a Sailor
1930 · 6 votes
Movie7.5CrimeActionPolice search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
Chinatown Squad
1935 · 2 votes
Movie6.5CrimeRomanceA murder mystery about the smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens into America through Chinatown.
The Secrets of Wu Sin
1932 · 2 votes
Movie9.0AdventureActionThe Man Without a Face is a 1928 American adventure film serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet.
The Man Without a Face
1928 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ActionAdventureA Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's nephew, receives a letter instructing him to retrieve a box from an attic in San Francisco and dump the contents into the ocean. He is on board a ship bound for Hawaii in which other passengers are also after the box. Dan Winterslip is murdered. Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective, offers to help solve the killing and the mysteries surround the box. Chan is looking for the person whose wristwatch is missing the number 'three.'
The House Without a Key
1926 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ActionAdventureIn 1906 Sweden, Captain Lars Larson (Knute Erickson) goes on a sea voyage, leaving his wife (Marcella Daly) behind expecting their first child. Unbeknownst to him while he is at sea, a bitter rival kidnaps her and makes it look as though she left him willingly. When he returns and discovers their home abandoned, he all but goes mad with bitterness and rage, destroying their home. In the years that follow, Larson becomes a sadistic, drunken reprobate of the sea, working for smugglers carrying all kinds of illegal cargo, including drugs -- and human cargo.
The Non-Stop Flight
1926 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaStreets of Shanghai
1927 · 1 votes
Movie6.0DocumentaryA Columbia Pictures promotional short which explains how a movie is made.
Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
1932 · 1 votes