Sessue Hayakawa

1943'te Burma'da bir Japon esir kampının komutanı olan Saito, kampa yeni gelen İngiliz Albay Nicholson'dan adamlarına Kwai nehri üzerine bir köprü kurmalarını emretmesini istemektedir. Saito'nun amacı bu köprüyü kullanarak Japon birliklerine cephane taşıma konusunda avantaj sağlamaktır. Saito'nun işkencesine dayanamayan Albay bir süre sonra köprünün emri altındaki mühendisler için de bir moral kaynağı olacağını düşünerek onun isteğini kabul eder. Nicholson düşmanının esiri konumunda da olsa, onun ve adamlarının yapabileceğinden daha iyi bir köprü yaparak onu psikolojik seviyede altetmiş olacağını düşünür. İnşaat ilerledikçe Nicholson köprünün düşmanına avantaj sağlayacağını tamamen unutur ve onu mükemmelleştirmek için elinden geleni yapar.

Film, 19. yüzyılda Yeni Gine'ye gitmek üzere yola çıkan İsviçreli bir ailenin bindikleri yelkenli geminin Pasifik Okyanusu'nda çıkan bir fırtınada batması üzerine civardaki ıssız bir tropik adada yaşamak zorunda kalmaları, doğanın zorlukları ve korsanlara karşı verdikleri mücadeleleri konu alır. 1940'tan başlayarak birçok kez sinema ve televizyona uyarlanan bu eğlenceli macera romanının en çok ses getiren versiyonlarından biri de Walt Disney yapımı bu filmdir. Çevrildiği yıl 20 milyon dolardan fazla gişe hasılatı sağlayarak 1960 yılının en çok iş yapan filmi olmuştır.

Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.

Abel adında genç bir adamın babası (Venezüella valisi) öldürülür. Abel, intikam almak için ormana kaçar. Ormanın derinliklerinde, doğada büyükbabasıyla birlikte yaşayan vahşi ama masum bir kız olan Rima ile tanışır. Rima, doğayla iç içe, insanlardan uzak bir hayat sürmektedir. Abel, Rima'ya aşık olur. Ancak ormanın yakınındaki köylerde yaşayan insanlar, Rima'ya karşı kuşku ve korku duymaktadır. Onu "tehlikeli bir orman ruhu" olarak görürler. Abel'in iki amacı vardır: Babasının intikamını almak. Sevgilisi Rima'yı, ondan korkan insanların batıl inançlarından korumak.

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.

Based on the story about Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. After Pearl Harbor, his foster family is interned at the Manzanar camp for Japanese Americans, while he enlists in the Marines, where his ability to speak Japanese becomes a vital asset. During the Battle of Saipan, he convinces 800 Japanese to surrender after their general commits suicide.

A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines the rampant sexuality of early Hollywood through movie clips and reminiscences by stars of the era. Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Marlene Dietrich and others relate tales of the artistic freedom that led to the draconian Production Code, which governed content from 1934 to 1968. Diane Lane narrates.

At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.

An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .

A young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to make his studies easier. Each time he falls asleep, he experiences in his dreams the different characters he would later write about in fairy tales including The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, and The Emperor's New Clothes.

Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga.

After an accusation of a breach of diplomacy committed by his brother, Hashimura Togo bears the burden and leaves Japan in disgrace for the United States where he enters the employ of Mrs. Reynolds as a butler. Togo discovers that Mrs. Reynolds' daughter Corinne is in love with Dr. Garland but is being coerced into marrying Carlos Anthony who, having seized all of her deceased father's funds, now promises to save the family from financial ruin in return for Corinne's hand in marriage. Enlisting the aid of a reporter, Hashimura succeeds in proving Anthony's deception in time to stop the marriage, freeing Corinne to marry Garland. After a series of misadventures, his name is cleared and Hashimura returns to his sweetheart in Japan.

An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.

With the advent of sound, the world's leading screen idol, Douglas Fairbanks, experienced a downturn in his fortunes. His thin, reedy voice was not suited to the talkies, his marriage to Mary Pickford was on the outs, and his son, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., had replaced him as a major box-office draw. Faced with the Hollywood equivalent of a mid-life crisis, Doug called up three of his best friends - director Victor Fleming, cinematographer Henry Sharp, and production manager Charles Lewis - and took them on a six-month tour of Asia, ostensibly to shoot a travelogue for United Artists (of which Fairbanks was still a major shareholder.) Their first stop is Honolulu, followed in quick succession by Japan, China, Peking, Hong Kong, Indochina, the Philippines, Siam, and India. Fairbanks and company spend time at such noteworthy spots as the Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat, the Summer Palace and the Sun Yat-Sen Mausoleum.

The manager of the American oil company quits out of fear of El Jaguar, the bandit who is terrorizing the Mexican countryside, Phil Jordan is sent in his place. Phil arrives with his younger sister Nancy, when the bandit makes a unwanted pass towards the girl, Phil beats him, causing El Jaguar to vow revenge. Waiting until Phil's bride Beth arrives, El Jaguar captures all three Americans and sadistically forces Phil to choose between leaving with his sister or his wife. Beth volunteers to remain as a sacrifice, and Phil and Nancy ride off, soon to encounter a troop of rangers. They all rush back to rescue Beth, but before they arrive, the bandit is killed by a woman whom he had abducted and violated on her wedding night.

Intimate views of the movie stars of the Silent Era, at work and play; featuring Sessue Hayakawa, Lillian Gish and others.

Yukio is illegal in the United States and is used by a gang of spies for their plans. Yukio must steal secret documents from an admiral. When he's submitting the documents to the gang, he realizes what he has done and claims the documents back. A struggle follows.

Going to take up his post in Moukden, the forest engineer finds in a trainer from the cabaret "the midnight sun" a Russian princess, Armide, whom he once loved. He had met her in 1917 when the princess and her father were driven from their domain. Prince Ireniev is a gambler, a trickster, a matchmaker. Out of love for Armide, Forestier flew, and yet when he finds the two wrecks, he cannot resist. Abandoning everything, his position and his honor, he leaves with the woman of his destiny.

A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.

A picture depicting the engrossing adventures of a small town youth in Hollywood and showing the intimate home life of some of the screen's greatest stars.

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.

Based on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period daimyo who unified Japan.

This five-part series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, international relations, and cultural innovation. It is a timely, clear-eyed look at the vital role that Asian Americans have played in defining who we are as a nation. Their stories are a celebration of the grit and resilience of a people that reflects the experience of all Americans.

A 1980 documentary series exploring the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and its impact on 1920s culture.