Date of birth: 1895-02-02
Place of birth: Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Known for: Directing
Also known as: Jack Abbe , 阿部ジャック

1919-12-14
An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.

1919-08-04
Bruce Winthrop, disguised as a clerk in the American consulate near the Mongolian border, is actuall

1914-10-01
A three-reel silent drama about an ambitious young man leaving behind his beloved in Japan to study

1918-09-08
Yano is a small delivery boy for his uncle, who keeps a curio shop in Chinatown. His loves are Tama,

1921-03-13
A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one

1915-12-13
A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and de

1920-01-31
After Ned Hamilton is rejected by his girlfriend, he travels to Japan where he hears an old legend a

1921-12-01
The film is perhaps the only remaining example of silent era cinema from a Chinese-American producti

1918-01-27
The son of a wealthy imported goods dealer, Herbert Franklyn refuses to curb his appetite for gaiety

1920-04-28
Upon returning home from school one day, Lotus Blossom, a Japanese orphan who lives on the island of
1918-05-19
Charmed by the bright smile of Taro San, a Japanese rickshaw boy, Grant Barton takes the young man t