Word: hayakawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handicapping himself like one. What keeps his melodramatic gamble from bankruptcy is the elemental tension of man against man, as it is reflected in the mirror-simple playing of Ben Piazza, as the American, and the emotionally prismatic portrayal of the Japanese by old (69) Silent Screen Star Sessue Hayakawa...
...American pours his only packet of sulfa powder into the ugly leg wound. The pair learn each other's names-Alvin and Kimura. When Alvin moons about his girl in Sedalia, Mo., Kimura mimes the death of his wife in an air raid. In such scenes, Actor Hayakawa makes Kimura grow wordlessly in stature and sympathy. Actor Piazza cannot prevent poor, blathering Alvin from being a bore, but he does capture the pathos of his homesickness...
...element at last. But the lean-muscled American virtues that Bond and Horton personify never seemed so attractive as they did in last week's Sakae Ito Story, when they were played off against the sensitive acting of that oldtime film villain, Sessue (Bridge on the River Kwai) Hayakawa...
Bridge on the River Kwai (at the Capri). Deserved winner of 7 Academy Awards, with consummate performances by Alec Guinness and Sessue Hayakawa, and fine assists from Jack Hawkins and the cameraman...
Cinemenace Hayakawa, who is up for a supporting-role Oscar for his work in Bridge on the River Kwai, performed eloquently in silence, let his craggy face show the nuances in the change from fear and hatred to humor and affection. Sea worked unnecessarily hard to make its point-misunderstanding breeds wars-because its airman, though well-played and fairly believable, was a simple-minded drugstore cowboy whose military indoctrination never seemed to have progressed beyond peeling potatoes...