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Film Still Archive/Museum of Modern Art.
Sessue Hayakawa and Fannie Ward in "The Cheat".
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Japanese were depicted as dishonorable and as villains. Japan-born Sessue
Hayakawa played an Eastern dude in Western garb in Cecil B. DeMille's 1915 "The
Cheat" -- seducing gullible Fannie Ward before attacking her. Hayakawa was the
first Japanese superstar of Hollywood films -- so far, he is also the last.
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RELATED LINKS
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Geishas & Godzillas
Which is odder—the image of Japan in Hollywood movies or the image of Japan in its own films?
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