早川雪洲

早川雪洲（rm=Hayakawa Sesshū，Sessue Hayakawa，11月23日），本名早川金太郎，出生於日本千葉縣安房郡千倉町（現南房總市），青年時赴美國芝加哥大學攻讀經濟學，後來活躍於好萊塢等歐美電影界，並成為20世紀10年代中期至20年代晚期的超級巨星，風靡了許多女性觀眾，其地位堪與同時代的查理·卓別林、範朋克等人相提並論。早川雪洲也是第一位在西方電影界達到頂峰成就的日本人和東亞人。晚年參與《桂河大橋》的演出，並獲提名為1957年的奧斯卡最佳男配角獎。
雖然早川雪洲卓越的演技從無聲電影時代到有聲電影時代皆得到了西方人的肯定，但卻因1915年在電影《The Cheat》中扮演一個冷酷殘忍的日本青年而遭受祖國日本輿論的猛烈抨擊，並被扣上了國恥大帽，此事讓愛國心極強的早川雪洲深覺遺憾與不平。二戰結束後，早川雪洲積極地回到日本活動，參與了多部日本電影的演出。1966年因妻子青木鶴子過世的影響而正式息影，1973年於東京都千代田區神田的杏雲堂醫院因腦溢血病逝，享壽87歲。
早川雪洲對於自己的演技如此評論：

**電影作品**
 1914: O Mimi San - 1914: The Courtship of O San- 1914: The Geisha- 1914: The Ambassador’s Envoy- 1914: The Wrath of the Gods/The Destruction of Sakura-Jima or The Wrath of the Gods – Lord Yamaki- 1914: A Tragedy of the Orient- 1914: A Relic of Old Japan- 1914: Star of the North- 1914: The Curse of the Caste- 1914: The Village ’Neath the Sea- 1914: The Death Mask - 1914: The Typhoon – Tokorama- 1914: The Hateful God - 1914: The Vigil – Kenjiro- 1914: Mother of the Shadows – Running Elk- 1914: The Last of the Line – Tiah - Gray Otter's Son- 1915: After Five – Oki, the Valet- 1915: The Famine – Horisho - 1915: The Chinatown Mystery – Yo Hong - 1915: The Clue – Nogi- 1915: The Secret Sin – Lin Foo- 1915: The Cheat (1915) (The Cheat) − Hishuru Tori/Haka Arakau- 1915: Temptation – Opera Admirer- 1916: Alien Souls – Sakata - 1916: The Honorable Friend – Makino- 1916: The Soul of Kura San – Toyo - 1916: The Victoria Cross – Azimoolah- 1917: Each to His Kind  – Rhandah- 1917: The Bottle Imp – Lopaka- 1917: The Jaguar’s Claws – El Jaguar- 1917: Forbidden Paths – Sato- 1917: Hashimura Togo – Hashimura Togo- 1917: The Call of the East – Arai Takada- 1917: The Secret Game – Nara-Nara- 1918: The Hidden Pearls – Tom Garvin- 1918: The Honor of His House/Honor of the House – Count Ito Onato- 1918: The White Man’s Law – John A. Genghis- 1918: The Bravest Way – Kara Tamura- 1918: The City of Dim Faces – Jang Lung - 1918: His Birthright - Yukio- 1918: The Temple of Dusk – Akira - 1918: Banzai – The American General - 1918: United States Fourth Liberty Loan Drive/An Untitled Liberty Loan Film- 1919: Bonds of Honor – Yamashito/Sasamoto- 1919: A Heart in Pawn – Tomaya- 1919: The Gray Horizon- 1919: The Dragon Painter – Tatsu, the Dragon Painter- 1919: The Illustrious Prince – Prince Maiyo- 1919: The Tong Man – Luk Chen- 1919: The Courageous Coward – Suki Iota- 1919: His Debt – Goto Mariyama- 1919: The Man Beneath – Dr. Chindi Ashutor- 1920: The Beggar Prince  – Nikki/Prince - 1920: The Brand of Lopez – Vasco Lopez- 1920: The Devil’s Claim – Akbar Khan/Hassan- 1920: Li Ting Lang/Traditions Altar – Li Ting Lang- 1920: An Arabian Knight – Ahmed- 1921: The First Born –  Chan Wang- 1921: Black Roses –  Yoda- 1921: Where Lights Are Low –  T Su Wong Shih- 1921: The Swamp –  Wang- 1922: Five Days to Live – Tai Leung- 1922: The Vermilion Pencil – Tse Chan/The Unknown/Li Chan- 1922: Night Life in Hollywood/The Shriek of Hollywood- 1923: About everything the fatherland, or the battle (La bataille)- 1924: Sen Yan's Devotion – Sen Yan- 1924: The Great Prince Shan – Prince Shan- 1924: The Danger Line – Marquis Yorisaka- 1924: J’ai tué!/Fidélité/I Have Killed – Hideo the antiquarian- 1929: Sessue Hayakawa in 'The Man Who Laughed Last' - 1931: Daughter of the Dragon – Ah Kee- 1931: Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks - 1932: Running Hollywood - 1932: Taiyo wa higashi yori/The Sun Rise from the East –  Kenji- 1934: Bakugeki hikôtai- 1935: Tôjin Okichi- 1935: Kuni o mamoru mono: Nichiren- 1937: The daughter of the samurai/Atarashiki tsuchi/The New Earth/The New Soil – Iwao Yamato- 1937: Yoshiwara – Isamo, Kuli- 1937: Branded (Forfaiture/The Cheat) – Prince Hu-Long- 1938: Storm over Asia (1938) (Tempête sur l'Asie) – Le prince Ling- 1939/1942: Macau gambling/Macao, l'enfer du jeu/Gambling Hell/Mask of Korea – Ying Tchaï- 1942: Patrouille blanche – Halloway- 1943: Soleil de minuit, Le – Matsui- 1943: Malaria – Saïdi- 1946: Le cabaret du grand large – Professeur Wang- 1947: Quartier chinois – Tchang- 1949: Tokyo Joe – Baron Kimura- 1950: Three Came Home  – Colonel Suga- 1950: Harukanari haha no kuni/The Motherland Far Far Away – Joe Hayami- 1950: Re mizeraburu: kami to akuma/Les Miserables: Gods and Demons - 1950: Re mizeraburu: kami to jiyu no hata - 1953: Onna kanja himon − Akô rôshi- 1953: Kurama Tengu to Katsu Kaishû- 1953: Higeki no shôgun: Yamashita Tomoyuki- 1954: Nihon yaburezu- 1955: Tokio−Story (House of Bamboo) – Inspector Kito- 1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai – Col. Saito- 1958: The geisha boy – Mr. Sikita- 1959: Green Mansions – Runi- 1960: Hell to Eternity – Gen. Matsui- 1960: Swiss Family Robinson  – Kuala, Pirate Chief- 1961: The Big Wave – The Old Man- 1966: The Daydreamer – The Mole - 1967: Junjô nijûsô

**電視演出**
 1958: Kraft Television Theatre: The Sea Is Boiling Hot- 1958: Studio One: Kurishiki Incident – Sato- 1958: Wagon Train: The Sakae Ito Story  – Sakae Ito- 1961: Here’s Hollywood (1961) - 1963: Route 66: Two Strangers and an Old Enemy– Takasuka

**文學出版**
 Sessue Hayakawa: The samurai's son. The life of Sessue Hayakawa. Henry Goverts Verlag, Stuttgart 1963.- S. Noma (Hrsg.): Hayakawa Sesshu. In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X, S. 511.- Donald Kirihara: The Accepted Idea Displaced. Stereotype and Sessue Hayakawa. In: Daniel Bernardi (Hrsg.): The Birth of Whiteness. Race and the Emergence of U.S. Cinema. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick NJ 1996, ISBN 0-8135-2277-3, S. 81–99.

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