Tsuru Aoki
Born: 1892-09-09 in Tokyo, Empire of Japan [now Tokyo, Japan]
Died: 1961-10-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Tsuru Aoki (September 9, 1892 – October 18, 1961) was a popular Japanese stage and screen actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the 1910s through the 1920s. Aoki may have been the first Asian actress to garner top-billing in American motion pictures.
Filmography
2002
- Decasia: The State of Decay as Self - Geisha (archive footage)
1924
- The Great Prince Shan as Nita
- Sen Yan’s Devotion as Sen Yan's Wife
- The Danger Line as Marquise Yorisaka
1923
- The Battle as La Marquise Yorisaka
1922
- Night Life in Hollywood as Self
- Five Days to Live as Ko Ai
1921
- Black Roses as Blossom (as Tsura Aoki)
1920
- The Breath of the Gods as Yuki Onda
- A Tokyo Siren as Asuti Hishuri
- Locked Lips as Lotus Blossom
1919
- The Courageous Coward as Rei Oaki
- Bonds of Honor as Toku-ko (as Tsuri Aoki)
- A Heart in Pawn as Sada
- The Dragon Painter as Ume-Ko
- The Gray Horizon as O Haru San
1918
- His Birthright as Saki San
- The Bravest Way as Sat-u
- The Curse of Iku as Omi San
1917
- Each to His Kind as Princess Nada
- The Call of the East as O'Mitsu, His Sister
1916
- The Honorable Friend as Toki-Ye
- The Soul of Kura San as Kura-San
- Alien Souls as Yuri Chan
1915
- The Chinatown Mystery as Woo
1914
- The Typhoon
- The Last of the Line as Girl at Riverside
- O Mimi san as O Mimi San
- The Wrath of the Gods as Toya San
- The Death Mask as Princess Nona