Still of Alec Guinness and Sessue Hayakawa in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Caption: Still of Alec Guinness and Sessue Hayakawa in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
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Actor, Producer, Director
Born: June 10, 1889
Star sign: Gemini
Known for: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), The Cheat (1915), The Dragon Painter (1919)
Source: IMDB
Sessue Hayakawa was born in Chiba, Japan. His father was the provincial governor and his mother a member of an aristocratic family of the "samurai" class. The young Hayakawa wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and become a career officer in the Japanese navy, but he was turned down due to problems with his hearing. The disappointed Hayakawa ...