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
- Sen Yan’s Devotion as Sen Yan's Wife
- The Great Prince Shan as Nita
- 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
- Locked Lips as Lotus Blossom
- The Breath of the Gods as Yuki Onda
- A Tokyo Siren as Asuti Hishuri
1919
- A Heart in Pawn as Sada
- The Gray Horizon as O Haru San
- The Courageous Coward as Rei Oaki
- The Dragon Painter as Ume-Ko
- Bonds of Honor as Toku-ko (as Tsuri Aoki)
1918
- His Birthright as Saki San
- The Curse of Iku as Omi San
- The Bravest Way as Sat-u
1917
- Each to His Kind as Princess Nada
- The Call of the East as O'Mitsu, His Sister
1916
- The Soul of Kura San as Kura-San
- Alien Souls as Yuri Chan
- The Honorable Friend as Toki-Ye
1915
- The Chinatown Mystery as Woo
1914
- The Last of the Line as Girl at Riverside
- The Wrath of the Gods as Toya San
- O Mimi san as O Mimi San
- The Death Mask as Princess Nona
- The Typhoon