Tsuru Aoki

Tsuru Aoki

From Wikipedia Tsuru Aoki (September 9, 1892 – October 18, 1961) was a popular Japanese stage and screen actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the 1910s through the 1920s. Aoki may have been the first Asian actress to garner top-billing in American motion pictures.

  • Title: Tsuru Aoki
  • Popularity: 1.3047
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1892-09-09
  • Place of Birth: Tokyo, Empire of Japan [now Tokyo, Japan]
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  • Also Known As: 青木鶴子, ツル・青木
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Tsuru Aoki Movies

  • 1916
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    The Honorable Friend

    The Honorable Friend

    1 1916 HD

    Makino works for Kayosho, a Japanese curio dealer in America. To reward Makino's dedication, Kayosho sends for Toki-ye, a picture bride. Upon arrival, she is married to Makino in a civil ceremony. However, Kayosho intends to keep Toki-ye for himself. This angers Goto, another employee. Kayosho was betrothed to Goto's niece, Hana. One day Kayosho is found dead in a pool.

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  • 1919
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    The Dragon Painter

    The Dragon Painter

    6.31 1919 HD

    A wild man and genius becomes a master painter's disciple, but loses his divine gift when he finds love.

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  • 1914
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    The Wrath of the Gods

    The Wrath of the Gods

    6.25 1914 HD

    An American sailor falls in love with a fisherman's daughter and convinces her that Jesus is more powerful than the gods who have cursed her.

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  • 1914
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    The Last of the Line

    The Last of the Line

    6.6 1914 HD

    Sioux leader Chief Gray Otter sends his son Tiah to the white man's school so that he can become a great leader. The son returns home drunk, disappointing his father. Things get worse when the son joins a group of renegades and robs a payroll wagon. The father, observing the clash from a distance, takes a side.

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  • 1914
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    The Death Mask

    The Death Mask

    2.5 1914 HD

    A Native American warrior travels to a faraway tribe to find and defend a woman that haunts his dreams.

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  • 1918
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    His Birthright

    His Birthright

    5.2 1918 HD

    Yukio is illegal in the United States and is used by a gang of spies for their plans. Yukio must steal secret documents from an admiral. When he's submitting the documents to the gang, he realizes what he has done and claims the documents back. A struggle follows.

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  • 1919
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    The Courageous Coward

    The Courageous Coward

    1 1919 HD

    Sessue Hayakawa was making the transition from Asian villain to sympathetic hero in this picture. The plot is a combination of racial stereotypes that were common in the U.S. during the silent era and real-life situations experienced by Asians living Stateside. Hayakawa plays Suki Iota, a student who, while born and bred in America, wants a wife with traditional Japanese values. She appears in the form of Rei (Tsuru Aoki, Hayakawa's real-life wife), a singer who becomes known as the Japanese Nightingale.

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  • 1914
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    The Typhoon

    The Typhoon

    1 1914 HD

    Tokoramo, a Japanese diplomat on a mission to Paris, begins a love affair with Helene, a chorus girl, who subsequently rejects her American fiancé, Richard Bernisky. When the Japanese discover the affair, they try to force Tokoramo to end it, but Helene refuses to stop visiting him. One night, during one of her visits, Bernisky comes to Tokoramo's apartment and, while Helene hides, rebukes her to her lover. After Bernisky leaves, Tokoramo orders Helene out, but when he realizes his love for her, he calls her back. Suddenly, she rejects and insults him to the point that he strangles her. Tokoramo wants to confess his crime, but he must complete his work, and so his countrymen sacrifice a boy, Hironari, who pleads guilty to the murder and eventually is guillotined. In the end, Tokoramo also dies and his colleagues burn his valuable papers in order to protect Japan. -From the TCM.com Database, powered by the AFI.

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  • 1917
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    The Call of the East

    The Call of the East

    1 1917 HD

    While visiting Alan, who works in Tokyo, she attends a festival with her Japanese maid while wearing a Japanese kimono. There she meets the wealthy Arai Takada, who is taken by the mysterious woman. Alan has dishonored and betrayed O'Mitsu, and her brother Arai plans a terrible revenge.

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  • 1924
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    The Great Prince Shan

    The Great Prince Shan

    1 1924 HD

    An assassinated Lord's daughter refuses to marry a Chinese prince but agrees to be his mistress.

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  • 1923
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    The Battle

    The Battle

    1 1923 HD

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  • 1920
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    A Tokyo Siren

    A Tokyo Siren

    1 1920 HD

    Dr. John Niblock is conducting research in Japan when he is called to revive Asuti Hishuri, who has fainted during her wedding ceremony. Upon learning that Asuti is being forced into a loveless marriage, the chivalrous John offers to marry the girl in name only and take her to America where she can be free. When John and his Japanese bride arrive in San Francisco, California, the doctor's former sweetheart appears heartbroken, and Asuti realizes that she is in love with Ito, her husband's secretary.

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  • 1920
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    The Breath of the Gods

    The Breath of the Gods

    1 1920 HD

    While attending college in Washington, D.C., Yuki Onda, the daughter of a Japanese samurai, meets and falls in love with Pierre Le Beau, a diplomatic attaché. At the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Pierre is sent to Japan as attaché to the Australian ambassador. When Yuki's father discovers his daughter's romance with a foreigner, he becomes enraged and betroths her to Prince Hagane for political reasons.

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  • 1919
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    Bonds of Honor

    Bonds of Honor

    1 1919 HD

    In this picture, Sessue Hayakawa is in a dual role, playing twin brothers. One of them, Yamashiro is serious and hardworking, while the other, Sadao, is a playboy. There is a girl, Toko-Ku, who loves them both, but really prefers the bad boy. Sadao encounters Paul Berkowitz in a gambling den and borrows far more money from him than he can ever pay back.

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  • 1921
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    Black Roses

    Black Roses

    1 1921 HD

    Japanese architect Yoda is hired as groundskeeper for retired criminal Benson Burleigh.

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  • 1914
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    O Mimi san

    O Mimi san

    1 1914 HD

    A silent melodrama from the very first series of American films to use a Japanese cast. The scenes of the story are laid in Japan during the last revolution in the late '60's.

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  • 1924
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    Sen Yan’s Devotion

    Sen Yan’s Devotion

    1 1924 HD

    A disguised servant of a dying Japanese prince saves articles of succession from a rival faction.

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  • 1919
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    A Heart in Pawn

    A Heart in Pawn

    1 1919 HD

    Toyama wants to go to college in America but his alcoholic father won't supply the funds. He gets the money to go, however, from Sada, whom he has married in secret. But Sada has a secret of her own -- she told Toyama that she got the money from a relative, but the truth is that she has signed up to do a four-year stint as a Geisha girl.

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  • 1918
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    The Bravest Way

    The Bravest Way

    1 1918 HD

    Tamura, a Japanese man working as a gardener in America, saves his money to marry his girlfriend, Japanese-American Nume Rogers. His friend Watana works for a Japanese businessman named Motoyoshi so that he can get enough money to bring his wife Sat-Su and their children to America. However, on the day that Sat-Su is to arrive, something happens that changes the lives of everyone concerned. A lost film.

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  • 1922
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    Night Life in Hollywood

    Night Life in Hollywood

    1 1922 HD

    A picture depicting the engrossing adventures of a small town youth in Hollywood and showing the intimate home life of some of the screen's greatest stars.

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  • 1920
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    Locked Lips

    Locked Lips

    1 1920 HD

    Upon returning home from school one day, Lotus Blossom, a Japanese orphan who lives on the island of Hilo in Hawaii and teaches at a native school, discovers Parker, nearly dead from hunger. Believing his story of a shipwreck, Lotus nurses him back to health and then, mistaking loneliness for love, agrees to marry her patient. Soon tiring of her, Parker deserts her and assumes a new identity.

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  • 1916
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    The Soul of Kura San

    The Soul of Kura San

    1 1916 HD

    When his fiancée commits suicide after being used by an American artist, a Japanese art dealer seeks to get vengeance by seducing the artist's wife.

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  • 1917
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    Each to His Kind

    Each to His Kind

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1915
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    The Chinatown Mystery

    The Chinatown Mystery

    1 1915 HD

    Reporter Frank Sloan, investigating the disappearance of a Chinese slave girl in Chinatown which leads to opium addiction, job loss, and personal ruin, until a major murder brings him back into the story, revealing the dark underbelly of the district.

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  • 1922
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    Five Days to Live

    Five Days to Live

    1 1922 HD

    Tai Leung, a young man who dreams of love and carves ivory images, falls in love with the pretty Kao Ai. Her cruel foster father owns a restaurant where she works, and he overworks and mistreats her. She blossoms when she meets Tai Leung, who is determined to rescue her from her hard life. Her foster father agrees to let her go, but only if Tai pays him a large sum of money. Desperate for money, Tai learns of a condemned pirate, "The Wolf," who has been sentenced to hang and will pay a lot of money for a substitute, and Tai agrees to take The Wolf's place on the gallows to ensure Ko Ai's happiness. However, things don't work out quite the way Tai planned.

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  • 1916
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    Alien Souls

    Alien Souls

    1 1916 HD

    A Japanese maiden is pursued by an unscrupulous American young man who falsely believes her to have great riches.

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  • 1918
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    The Curse of Iku

    The Curse of Iku

    1 1918 HD

    American sailor Allan Carroll, an American sailor, is shipwrecked of the coast of Japan in the 19th century. He makes it to shore and is rescued by kind Yori. The local ruler, Prince Iku, has ordered that all foreigners who are "trespassing" on Japanese soil should be killed. He hears about a foreign sailor who washed ashore and has been hidden by villagers, so he sends his sister Omi San to investigate. She finds Alan, and instead of turning him in to be executed, she falls in love with him. Prince Iku captures both Allan and Yori and intends to execute both of them. Complications ensue.

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  • 1924
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    The Danger Line

    The Danger Line

    1 1924 HD

    While her husband is away on a secret mission, the Marquise Yorisaka is Americanized by Mrs. Hockey and becomes the object of Captain Fergan's affections. Warned of the captain's activities, the marquis obtains a post for him on his battleship and forces him to take command when he himself is wounded. The death of the captain brings about a reconciliation of the couple and resumption of a life in keeping with their tradition.

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  • 1919
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    The Gray Horizon

    The Gray Horizon

    1 1919 HD

    The skill of colorful Japanese artist Yamo Masata attracts the attention of a clever counterfeiter who seeks the artist's aid in the preparation of spurious bonds. At first deceived, the artist becomes indignant when he learns the truth of the enterprise.

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