Nagisa Oshima
A musical based on Hayakawa's life, "Sessue", played in Tokyo in 1989. In September 2007, the Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective on Hayakawa's work entitled: "Sessue Hayakawa: East and West, When the Twain Met". Japanese film director Nagisa Oshima had planned to create a biopic entitled "Hollywood Zen" based on Hayakawa's life. The script had been allegedly completed and set to film in Los Angeles, but due to constant delays and the eventual death of Oshima himself in 2013, the project went unrealized.