The Courageous Coward

📅 1919 ⏱️ 50 min 🎭 Drama

📋 Details

🎬 Director

William Worthington

✍️ Writers

Frances Guihan, Thomas J. Geraghty

🌍 Countries

United States of America

🏢 Production

Haworth Pictures Corporation

🗣️ Languages

No Language

🎭 Genres

Drama

📖 Overview

Sessue Hayakawa was making the transition from Asian villain to sympathetic hero in this picture. The plot is a combination of racial stereotypes that were common in the U.S. during the silent era and real-life situations experienced by Asians living Stateside. Hayakawa plays Suki Iota, a student who, while born and bred in America, wants a wife with traditional Japanese values. She appears in the form of Rei (Tsuru Aoki, Hayakawa’s real-life wife), a singer who becomes known as the Japanese Nightingale.