A Tokyo Siren
{{short description|1920 film by Norman Dawn}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = A Tokyo Siren
| image = A Tokyo Siren - poster 1920.jpg
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| caption = Movie poster
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| director = Norman Dawn
| producer =
| writer = Gwendolyn Logan
Doris Schroeder
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| starring = {{Plainlist|
- Tsuru Aoki
- Jack Livingston
- Goro Kino
- Toyo Fujita
- Arthur Jasmine
- Peggy Pearce
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| music =
| cinematography = Thomas Rae
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| studio = Universal Film Manufacturing Company
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| released = {{Film date|1920|06}}
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| country = United States
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A Tokyo Siren (also known as A Tokio Siren) is a 1920{{cite book |last=Rowe |first=Denise |title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930 |year=2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0789018434 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9790874369709_b7n2 }} American silent drama film directed by Norman Dawn and starring Tsuru Aoki,{{cite book|title=Japanese Studies Around the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=As8wAQAAIAAJ|year=2004|publisher=International Research Center for Japanese Studies|page=296}} Jack Livingston, Goro Kino, Toyo Fujita and Arthur Jasmine. The film was based on Gwendolyn Logan's story "Cayonara."{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/314011981/?terms=%22a+tokio+siren%22|title=A Tokio Siren|date=October 1, 1921|website=Ness County News|language=en|access-date=November 11, 2019}}
The final scenes of the film were shot on location on Catalina Island.{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/2190-A-TOKIO-SIREN |title=A Tokio Siren |work=afi.com |access-date=March 22, 2024}}
Plot
A young American doctor is in Tokyo trying to heal his heartbreak after being jilted by his lover. Just as he is about to return to his home country, he decides to help a young Japanese woman escape a bad situation by making her legally his wife. When the doctor arrives in America, his former lover returns, and is sad to find that he is married. Meanwhile, the young woman begins to fall for the doctor's Japanese assistant.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/35192937/?terms=%22a+tokio+siren%22|title=Tsuru Aoki in 'Atokio Siren'|date=August 6, 1920|website=Times Herald|language=en|access-date=November 11, 2019}}
Cast
- Tsuru Aoki as Asuti Hishuri
- Jack Livingston (billed as Jack Livingstone) as Dr. Niblock
- Goro Kino as Hakami
- Toyo Fujita as Hishuri
- Arthur Jasmine as Ito
- Peggy Pearce as Ethel
- Florence Hart as Amelia Niblock
- Frederick Vroom as Mr. Chandler
- Dorothy Hipp as Matsu
Preservation
Complete prints of A Tokio Siren are held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.{{cite web |url=https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2945/ |title=American Silent Feature Film Database: A Tokio Siren |access-date=March 22, 2024 |publisher=Library of Congress}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0011778}}
{{Norman Dawn}}
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Category:American silent feature films
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:Films directed by Norman Dawn
Category:Universal Pictures films
Category:American black-and-white films
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