The best Sessue Hayakawa’s war movies

Sessue Hayakawa

Sessue Hayakawa

10/06/1889- 23/11/1973
Today we present the best Sessue Hayakawa’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Sessue Hayakawa’s movies.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai
8.1/10
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson , the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

Hell to Eternity

Hell to Eternity
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 01/08/1960
  • Character: General Matsui
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.

Three Came Home

Three Came Home
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 20/02/1950
  • Character: Colonel Michio Suga
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.

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