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Haka Arakau (originally Hishituru Tori) played by Sessue Hayakawa

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This surviving 1918 print, distributed during the Great War, in which Japan and the USA were allies, changed the original character's Japanese name Hishituru Tori to a Burmese identity. But the film's original portrayal of Japanese during an anti-Japanese movement in California must be understood as the intent of Lasky and DeMille. They were intentionally playing with fire.

Contents of this annotation:

  1. The Cheat (Jesse Lasky, Cecil B. DeMille, 1915)