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A Tokyo Siren (1920)

A Tokyo Siren poster
Directed by
Norman Dawn
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Japanese woman and an American man fall in love. The final scenes take place on an island.

silent-eramoodyromanticslow-paceddramaticexoticdatedmelodramatic

What happens

A Tokio Siren (also known as A Tokyo Siren) is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Norman Dawn and starring Tsuru Aoki, Jack Livingston, Goro Kino, Toyo Fujita and Arthur Jasmine. The film was based on Gwendolyn Logan's story "Cayonara." The final scenes of the film were shot on location on Catalina Island. Footage was featured in Decasia, an American collage film by director Bill Morrison. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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