Tetsu Komai
Also Known As: Tetsuo Komai, 駒井哲
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Tetsu Komai (駒井哲 Komai Tetsu) (April 23, 1894 – August 10, 1970), also known as Tetsuo Komai, was a Japanese-American actor, known for his minor roles in Hollywood films. Born in Kumamoto, Kyushu, Komai had small parts in over 50 films from the 1920s until the mid-1960s. In his early films, Tetsu, who was usually called on to play Chinese characters, was often described with derogatory terms such as "Chinaman,". He played the villain in many of his films. He immigrated to the United States in December 1907, arriving at the Port of Seattle; he lived in Seattle for several years after this initial immigration. During the Second World War, the actor, his wife, and their children were interned with groups of other Japanese-Americans and Japanese resident aliens at the Gila River War Relocation Center in Arizona from August 27, 1942 to November 3, 1945. He died in Gardena, California of congestive heart failure, aged 76. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bette Davis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kumamoto, Japan
Birthday: April 23, 1894
Deathday: August 10, 1970
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Gender: Male
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Island of Lost Souls
Overview: An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-24
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Radio Patrol
Overview: A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-02
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The Princess Comes Across
Overview: A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
Genres: Comedy Romance Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-22
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War Correspondent
Overview: In this war drama, a brave reporter tries to remain detached while covering the war in Shanghai. While there, he falls for an ex-streetwalker, but must compete with a mercenary pilot for her love. By the end, the correspondent loses his objectivity after he helps the pilot save the woman from the enemy. The rescue costs the pilot his life.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-25
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The Night Walker
Overview: A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-30
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Shanghai Bound
Overview: Landing at a Chinese port, tough sea captain Bucklin and his passengers are threatened by a marauding war lord, who intends to kill the captain and hold the others hostage as part of his campaign of destruction against all white men.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-15
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Moran of the Marines
Overview: Adventures of a marine in China.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-13
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Japanese War Bride
Overview: A Korean war vet and his bride face subtle and sometimes extreme racism when they return to his home in rural California.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-29
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The Letter
Overview: After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-21
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Bulldog Drummond
Overview: Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-02
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Mr. Wu
Overview: When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-26
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Border Devils
Overview: Jim Gray is looking for the gang leader known as the General. When Neil Denham is murdered, Jim assumes his identity. He and his pal Squint Saunders then try to join the gang. But they get captured and Jim is told he can join up only if he kills his friend.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-03
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East Is West
Overview: Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-23
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Daughter of the Dragon
Overview: At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.
Genres: Crime Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-24
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Hong Kong Nights
Overview: Customs agents track a ring of arms smugglers into Hong Kong.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-23
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Prestige
Overview: A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-30
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The Secrets of Wu Sin
Overview: A murder mystery about the smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens into America through Chinatown.
Genres: Crime Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-15
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Tell It to the Marines
Overview: U.S. Marine Sergeant O'Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, 'Skeets' Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. If Burns's lackadaisical approach to the military were not bad enough, he also makes advances on nurse Nora Dale, whom Sergeant O'Hara secretly loves. Nora is oblivious to O'Hara's feelings and is attracted to the handsome 'Skeet.' But an indiscretion turns her against him, and it takes an expedition to China and a battle with a warlord's bandit brigade to sort things out among the nurse and her two Marines.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-23
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China Seas
Overview: Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-09
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History Is Made at Night
Overview: An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-05
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Isle of Fury
Overview: An island pearl merchant and his new wife make room for a mysterious shipwrecked man.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-10
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The Real Glory
Overview: Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous attacks of the ruthless Alisang and his fanatical followers.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-29
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That Man's Here Again
Overview: An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In order to keep her near him, he wangles a job for her as a maid at the building.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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Oil for the Lamps of China
Overview: An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-08
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Roar of the Dragon
Overview: A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "belongs" to Voronsky. Carson must contend with the bandits outside and the conflicting personalities of those trapped inside the inn, as well as dealing with spies among the inn's personnel.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-08
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The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
Overview: The sinister Dr. Fu Manchu returns to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Romance Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-02
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Now and Forever
Overview: Freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility, but Toni yearns for a family and a settled life. Then the Days 'rediscover' Jerry's young daughter Pennie, who has been living with his rich deceased wife's family. Pennie appears to be just what Jerry needs to mend his swindling ways and lead a straight life. Then a corruptible influence enters his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-31
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Tokyo Joe
Overview: An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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Klondike Annie
Overview: A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-21
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Overview: Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-02
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West of Shanghai
Overview: American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord.
Genres: War Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-30
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Chinatown Nights
Overview: Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the depths with him. But seeing her so much in love with him causes him to realize he isl in love with her, and he determines to lift her up again. "Boston" Charley, the rival gang-leader, has other plans.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-29
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Old Ironsides
Overview: An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-06
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East of Borneo
Overview: Mrs. Linda Randolph treks through darkened jungles to the land of Maradu to find her missing husband Allan, who'd left her years before when he believed she was in love with another. She finds Allan the drunken court physician to a devious prince-- Whose designs on the pair don't include a happy ending.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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Sundown
Overview: Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
Genres: War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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China Passage
Overview: Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San Francisco. They will be paid handsomely on success or killed on failure. The diamond is stolen as they take possession of it.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-12
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The Woman from Moscow
Overview: A silent film directed by Ludwig Berger.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-03
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The Singing Marine
Overview: Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and with the Corps.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-03
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Welcome Danger
Overview: A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-12
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The Sea Wolf
Overview: George, Ruth and Humphrey go for a boat ride with Wolf Larsen.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-21
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Roaming Lady
Overview: Joyce Reid, a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers her dashing aviator sweetheart, Dan Bailey and and her munitions-producing father, E. J. Reid and an assortment of the usual south-seas characters along with some Asians with varying agendas. The cargo included a shipment of bombs and machine guns. She soon finds herself being held hostage and they will free her only if Dan agrees to pilot a bombing plane for some Chinese bandits.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-02
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Adventures of Captain Marvel
Overview: On a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into the super-powered Captain Marvel by the wizard Shazam, who tells him his powers will last only as long as the Golden Scorpion idol is threatened. Finding the idol, the scientists realize it could be the most powerful weapon in the world and remove the lenses that energize it, distributing them among themselves so that no one would be able to use the idol by himself. Back in the US, Billy Batson, as Captain Marvel, wages a battle against an evil, hooded figure, the Scorpion, who hopes to accumulate all five lenses, thereby gaining control of the super-powerful weapon
Genres: Fantasy Action Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-28
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The Criminal Code
Overview: After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-03
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East is West
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1930-11-30
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Four Frightened People
Overview: Malaya tropical island romantic love triangle adventure thriller, about a cruise ship where Bubonic plague breaks out. Four people are able to leave the ship in a tiny boat and make it to a desert island, where many adventures ensue and, of course, the two men fight over the beautiful young schoolteacher who is with them.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-26
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Streets of Shanghai
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-15
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White Woman
Overview: A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. She and the plantation's overseer develop a mutual attraction, but are terrified at what will happen if her husband finds out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-10
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