A Tokyo Siren
1920 film by Norman Dawn
- Tsuru Aoki
- Jack Livingston
- Goro Kino
- Toyo Fujita
- Arthur Jasmine
- Peggy Pearce
Production
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Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Release date
- June 1920 (1920-06)
A Tokyo Siren (also known as A Tokio Siren) is a 1920[1] American silent drama film directed by Norman Dawn and starring Tsuru Aoki,[2] Jack Livingston, Goro Kino, Toyo Fujita and Arthur Jasmine. The film was based on Gwendolyn Logan's story "Cayonara."[3]
The final scenes of the film were shot on location on Catalina Island.[4]
Plot
A young American doctor is in Tokyo trying to heal his heartbreak after being jilted by his lover. Just as he is about to return to his home country, he decides to help a young Japanese woman escape a bad situation by making her legally his wife. When the doctor arrives in America, his former lover returns, and is sad to find that he is married. Meanwhile, the young woman begins to fall for the doctor's Japanese assistant.[3][5]
Cast
- Tsuru Aoki as Asuti Hishuri
- Jack Livingston (billed as Jack Livingstone) as Dr. Niblock
- Goro Kino as Hakami
- Toyo Fujita as Hishuri
- Arthur Jasmine as Ito
- Peggy Pearce as Ethel
- Florence Hart as Amelia Niblock
- Frederick Vroom as Mr. Chandler
- Dorothy Hipp as Matsu
Preservation
Complete prints of A Tokio Siren are held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.[6]
References
- ^ Rowe, Denise (2004). An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930. Routledge. ISBN 978-0789018434.
- ^ Japanese Studies Around the World. International Research Center for Japanese Studies. 2004. p. 296.
- ^ a b "A Tokio Siren". Ness County News. October 1, 1921. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
- ^ "A Tokio Siren". afi.com. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ "Tsuru Aoki in 'Atokio Siren'". Times Herald. August 6, 1920. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
- ^ "American Silent Feature Film Database: A Tokio Siren". Library of Congress. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
External links
- A Tokyo Siren at IMDb
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Films directed by Norman Dawn
- Lasca (1919)
- The Adorable Savage (1920)
- A Tokyo Siren (1920)
- White Youth (1920)
- Thunder Island (1921)
- Wolves of the North (1921)
- The Fire Cat (1921)
- The Son of the Wolf (1922)
- Five Days to Live (1922)
- The Vermilion Pencil (1922)
- Lure of the Yukon (1924)
- After Marriage (1925)
- Justice of the Far North (1925)
- Typhoon Love (1926)
- For the Term of His Natural Life (1927)
- The Adorable Outcast (1928)
- Black Hills (1929)
- Showgirl's Luck (1931)
- Tundra (1936)
- Arctic Fury (1949)
- Two Lost Worlds (1951)
- Wild Women (1951)
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