What was the name of Sessue Hayakawa's breakthrough film?
The Cheat
The Typhoon
The Dragon Painter
Daughter of the Dragon
Answer
The Cheat is a 1915 American drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Sessue Hayakawa, Fannie Ward, and Jack Holt. It was the first Hollywood film to be set in the Orient, and it was Hayakawa's breakthrough role. The film tells the story of a Japanese woman (Ward) who is seduced by an American businessman (Holt) and then blackmailed by him.
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