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Photo of Sessue Hayakawa as a young manHayakawa performed on the stage of Toyo Fujitas Japanese Theater.he bought and ran his own movie production company and studio.

he starred in various movies and TV shows; he may best be remembered by younger audiences for his role as the Japanese POW camp officer in the 1957 movie The Bridge on the River Kwai.A movie star from Little Tokyo? Yes! And not just a star but a superstar!Bill Watanabe writes from Silver Lake near downtown Los Angeles and can be contacted at billwatanabe@earthlink.Hayakawa joined Fujitas Japanese theater troupe.

but instead he became smitten with the stage and decided to pursue acting.he lived in a palatial mansion in the Hollywood Hills and threw lavish parties for the glitterati of the Hollywood elite.

Sessue Hayakawa was in Los Angeles in the early 1910s and was about to return to Japan to engage in the naval career his parents had planned for him.

By Bill WatanabeDid you know that one of the biggest superstars of the silent screen era in Hollywood was a Japanese guy named Sessue Hayakawa?He was cast as the mysterious foreign lover who beguiled young white women on the silver screen before the famous Latin lover Rudolph Valentino.Shoppers peruse kimono in June at Mai no Kai dance studio.

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