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1. Wagon Train (1957–1965)
TV-PG | 75 min | Western
Stories of the journeys of a wagon train as it leaves post-Civil War Missouri on its way to California through the plains, deserts, and Rocky Mountains.
Stars: Frank McGrath, Terry Wilson, Robert Horton, John McIntire
Votes: 3,750
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
PG | 161 min | Adventure, Drama, War
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
Director: David Lean | Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Votes: 233,234 | Gross: $44.91M
3. Route 66 (1960–1964)
TV-Y7 | 60 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
The adventures of two young drifters across America.
Stars: Martin Milner, George Maharis, Glenn Corbett, James Brown
Votes: 1,947
4. Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
G | 126 min | Adventure, Family
A Swiss family must survive being shipwrecked on a deserted island.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro
Votes: 18,160 | Gross: $40.36M
5. Green Mansions (1959)
Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her.
Director: Mel Ferrer | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Perkins, Lee J. Cobb, Sessue Hayakawa
Votes: 2,582
6. The Red Skelton Hour (1951–1971)
TV-G | 60 min | Comedy
A comedy-themed variety show, hosted by the popular comedian Red Skelton. It run with no interruption from 1951 to 1971. From 1956 to 1962, the show's head writer was Sherwood Schwartz, who... See full summary »
Stars: Red Skelton, David Rose and His Orchestra, Art Gilmore, Tom Hansen Dancers
Votes: 1,391
7. Studio One (1948–1958)
60 min | Drama
A pinnacle of the Golden Age of Television, "Studio One" presented a wide range of memorable dramas and received eighteen Emmy nominations and five wins during its prestigious nine-year run on CBS.
Stars: Betty Furness, Paul Branson, Charlton Heston, Mary Sinclair
Votes: 328
8. House of Bamboo (1955)
Approved | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Planted in a Tokyo crime syndicate, a U.S. Army Investigator attempts to probe the coinciding death of a fellow Army official.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 4,092
9. Hell to Eternity (1960)
Approved | 131 min | Biography, Drama, War
When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Vic Damone, Patricia Owens
Votes: 1,577
10. Three Came Home (1950)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, War
During Word War II, American author Agnes Newton Keith is imprisoned by the Japanese in various POW camps in North Borneo and Sarawak.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond, Sessue Hayakawa
Votes: 2,138
11. The Geisha Boy (1958)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy
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.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Marie McDonald, Sessue Hayakawa, Barton MacLane
Votes: 2,124
12. Tokyo Joe (1949)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An American returns to Tokyo try to pick up threads of his pre-WW2 life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly, Sessue Hayakawa
Votes: 2,692
13. Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama
Princess Ling Moy, a young and beautiful Chinese aristocrat lives next door, unbeknownst to her, to Dr. Fu Manchu, a brilliant but twisted genius who is out to rule the world. She is ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Corrigan | Stars: Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Sessue Hayakawa, Bramwell Fletcher
Votes: 788
14. Kraft Theatre (1947–1958)
60 min | Drama
A well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.
Stars: Ed Herlihy, Vaughn Taylor, Valerie Cossart, Dan Morgan
Votes: 222
15. The Cheat (1915)
Not Rated | 59 min | Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Dean, James Neill
Votes: 2,762 | Gross: $0.21M
16. The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956–1960)
60 min | Comedy
The Steve Allen Show was an American variety show hosted by Steve Allen.
Stars: Steve Allen, Gene Rayburn, Louis Nye, Skitch Henderson
Votes: 258
17. The Daydreamer (1966)
Unrated | 101 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
An anthology of fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen: "The Little Mermaid", "The Emperor's New Clothes", "Thumbelina", and "The Garden of Paradise".
Director: Jules Bass | Stars: Tallulah Bankhead, Victor Borge, Patty Duke, Jack Gilford
Votes: 458
18. The Linkletter Show (1952–1970)
TV-G | 30 min | Family
Daytime variety show starring Art Linkletter.
Stars: Art Linkletter, Jack Slattery, Edith Head, Jack Linkletter
Votes: 201
19. The Dragon Painter (1919)
TV-PG | 53 min | Drama, Romance
A wild man and genius becomes a master painter's disciple, but loses his divine gift when he finds love.
Director: William Worthington | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Edward Peil Sr., Toyo Fujita
Votes: 665
20. Here's Hollywood (1960–1962)
30 min | Talk-Show
Hollywood celebrities are interviewed, often at their homes.
Stars: Dean Miller, Helen O'Connell, Jack Linkletter, Joanne Jordan
Votes: 169
21. Forfaiture (1937)
94 min | Drama
This version of the story begins with the engineer's wife (Denise Morel) being driven to the site where her husband is building a bridge. The first thing she notices is the mark of the ... See full synopsis »
Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Victor Francen, Sessue Hayakawa, Louis Jouvet, Lise Delamare
Votes: 141
22. The First Born (1921)
60 min | Romance, Drama
Chan Wang, boatman on the Hoang-Ho, is forced to marry Chan Lee, when his beloved, Loey Tsing, is sold to Kuey Lar, a rich merchant in San Francisco. Soon a son, Chan Toy, is born to Chan ... See full summary »
Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Helen Jerome Eddy, Sonny Loy, Goro Kino
23. Pretty Dudes (2016– )
Comedy, Drama
A group of friends in the greater Los Angeles area, self-categorized as "pretty boys," navigate sexuality, race, romance, and the occasional celibacy pact.
Stars: Kyle Rezzarday, Xavier Avila, Yoshi Sudarso, Bryan Michael Nunez
Votes: 36
24. The Mike Wallace Interview (1957–1960)
30 min | Talk-Show
The Mike Wallace Interview is a series of 30-minute television interviews conducted by host Mike Wallace from 1957 to 1960. Before The Mike Wallace Interview was televised nationally on ... See full summary »
Stars: Mike Wallace, Cyrus Eaton, Bennett Cerf, Alexander de Seversky
Votes: 32
25. Yoshiwara (1937)
102 min | Drama, Romance
The film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer and a rickshaw man.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Pierre Richard-Willm, Sessue Hayakawa, Michiko Tanaka, Roland Toutain
Votes: 198
26. Atarashiki tsuchi (1937)
120 min | Drama, Romance
Teruo is an adopted son of an old samurai family that returns to Japan after living in Germany and is expected to marry Mitsuko. But he's struggling to readjust to Japan and intends to marry an Aryan woman.
Directors: Arnold Fanck, Mansaku Itami | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Isamu Kosugi, Setsuko Hara, Yuriko Hanabusa
Votes: 146
27. The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971 TV Special)
News
Award of the American academy of cinematographic arts and sciences, from 1940 known as "Oscar", - American film award created in 1929 and traditionally handed to the figures of ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Dunlap | Stars: Bob Hope, Jane Alexander, Robert Altman, Burt Bacharach
Votes: 95
28. The Typhoon (1914)
Drama
Japanese diplomat Tokoramo ( Sessue Hayakawa ), on a mission to Paris, begins a love affair with chorus girl, Helene ( Gladys Brockwell ), who subsequently rejects her American fiance, ... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Gladys Brockwell, Frank Borzage, Henry Kotani
Votes: 34
29. The Wrath of the Gods (1914)
56 min | Drama, Romance
An American sailor falls in love with a fisherman's daughter and convinces her that Jesus is more powerful than the gods who have cursed her.
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Frank Borzage, Kisaburô Kurihara
Votes: 209
30. The 30th Annual Academy Awards (1958 TV Special)
Family
The 30th Academy Awards ceremony, held on March 26th, 1958 to honor the best films of 1957 with Bob Hope returning as host. The ceremony is accompanied by many scandals: Two violent deaths and the Hollywood blacklist during the Cold War.
Director: Alan Handley | Stars: Anna Maria Alberghetti, June Allyson, Fred Astaire, Ann Blyth
Votes: 238
31. Gambling Hell (1942)
61 min | Adventure, Drama
A captain, who has rescued a woman from danger,sails with her to Macao to do an arms deal with the Asian proprietor of a gambling den.The proprietor,s daughter, whom a visiting journalist ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Mireille Balin, Henri Guisol, Erich von Stroheim
Votes: 175
32. Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks (1931)
80 min | Documentary
This film was also known as Around the World in 80 Minutes. Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and a crew of three journey around the world and report on various cultural curiosities and the humour they find in everyday life overseas.
Directors: Douglas Fairbanks, Victor Fleming | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Victor Fleming, Duke Kahanamoku, Sôjin Kamiyama
Votes: 60
33. The Big Wave (1961)
73 min | Drama
Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on the other. Yukio's younger sister ... See full summary »
Director: Tad Danielewski | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Jûzô Itami, Mickey Curtis, Kôji Shitara
Votes: 16
34. The Tong Man (1919)
50 min | Crime, Drama
An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.
Director: William Worthington | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Helen Jerome Eddy, Marc B. Robbins, Toyo Fujita
Votes: 97
35. Tempête sur l'Asie (1938)
95 min | Drama
An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Sessue Hayakawa, Madeleine Robinson, Lucas Gridoux
Votes: 10
36. The Victoria Cross (1916)
50 min | Drama, History
Maj. Ralph Seton is a British army officer stationed in Cawnpore, India, when the Sepoy Rebellion--a mutiny of Indian soldiers in the Brtitish army in India--breaks out in 1857. He receives... See full summary »
Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: Lou Tellegen, Cleo Ridgely, Sessue Hayakawa, Ernest Joy
Votes: 17
37. Running Hollywood (1932)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Arthur Lake, Sally Blane, Benny Rubin
Votes: 55
38. The Last of the Line (1914)
20 min | Short, Drama, Western
Gray Otter, the last of a line of powerful Sioux chiefs, eagerly awaits the return of his son from the government school, to save the name and the glory of his clan from extinction. Tiah, ... See full summary »
Directors: Jay Hunt, Thomas H. Ince | Stars: Joe Goodboy, Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Stanely Bigham
Votes: 149
39. Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 1 (1920)
Documentary, Short
Stars: George Beban Jr., Edwin Carewe, Carter De Haven Jr., Dagmar Godowsky
40. La bataille (1923)
Left behind while her husband is in Europe, a Japanese military wife entertains the advances of a young British officer.When her man returns, he uses the affair to glean military secrets from the lover.
Directors: Sessue Hayakawa, Édouard-Émile Violet | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Félix Ford, Gina Palerme
Votes: 11
41. The Secret Sin (1915)
Drama
To help their unemployed father make ends meet, Edith and her twin sister Grace work as seamstresses . An invalid, Grace falls prey to the temptations of Chinatown opium and becomes an ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Reicher | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Hal Clements, Alice Knowland, Sessue Hayakawa
42. Le soleil de minuit (1943)
88 min | Adventure
Director: Bernard-Roland | Stars: Jules Berry, Josseline Gaël, Saturnin Fabre, Sessue Hayakawa
Votes: 13
43. The Honorable Friend (1916)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Makino works for Kayosho, a Japanese curio dealer in America. To reward Makino's dedication, Kayosho sends for Toki-ye, a picture bride. Upon arrival, she is married to Makino in a civil ... See full summary »
Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Raymond Hatton, Goro Kino
44. Le cabaret du grand large (1946)
90 min | Action
Shady traffic takes place behind the door of a cabaret. The gang leader is Asian Wang spied on by Commissioner Thomas. While Richard leads a double game and, out of love for the landlady, ends up shooting Wang.
Director: René Jayet | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Fernand Fabre, André Talmès, Antonin Berval
45. The Courtship of O San (1914)
20 min | Short, Drama
Shotoku, the son of the Marquis Osaka, attends a theater and falls in love with O San, one of the actresses. He makes love to her, disguising himself as a tradesman. The marriage is ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Miller | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Mr. Yoshida, Kisaburô Kurihara
46. An Arabian Knight (1920)
50 min | Action, Fantasy, Adventure
A young Egyptian goes to the rescue of his employers, a wealthy European family, when they are menaced by a local strongman and his gang.
Director: Charles Swickard | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Lillian Hall, Jean Acker, Marie Pavis
Votes: 35
47. The Vermilion Pencil (1922)
50 min | Drama
Tse Chan, a Chinese viceroy, believing his wife to be unfaithful, sentences her to death. After learning of her innocence too late, he sends his son, Li Chan, to America and goes into ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Dawn | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Ann May, Misao Seki, Bessie Love
48. The Secret Game (1917)
67 min | Drama
During the Great War, German and Japanese spies face off in the United States.
Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Holt, Florence Vidor, Mayme Kelso
Votes: 129
49. The Swamp (1921)
62 min | Drama
Mary and her son Buster live in a single room in the slums of the city, having been deserted by their husband and father, wealthy Spencer Wellington. While selling newspapers, Buster meets Wang.
Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Bessie Love, Janice Wilson, Frankie Lee
50. The City of Dim Faces (1918)
50 min | Drama
Chinese 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 ... See full summary »
Director: George Melford | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Doris Pawn, Marin Sais, James Cruze