Answer: Japanese Actors in Terror Island

Last week, I shared that there were two Japanese actors who had roles in Terror Island, but did not share their names.

It is now time to reveal who these actors were:

camera! Nov 1, 1919

Goro Kino played Mordaunt’s Japanese Assistant:

According to IMDb:

Goro Kino was born on June 2, 1877 in Japan.

Sessue Hayakawa strangles Goro Kino in The First Born (1921)

He was an actor, known for Narikin (1921), A Tokyo Siren (1920) and Where Lights Are Low (1921). He died on February 4, 1922 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

And Yukio Aoyama played, Sato, Harper’s Japanese Assistant:

According to IMDb:

Yukio Aoyama was born on March 15, 1888 in Japan.

Yukio Aoyama and Lois Wilson in Who’s Your Servant (1920)

High school education in Japan and America and drama school in Chicago. Yukio Aoyama was an editor of the Japanes Daily News for five years and also writer and drama critic. Was a leading man in Japanese stock companies. Was in American-produced films, and co-starred with Lois Wilson in “Hari-Kari” (aka “Who Is Your Servant”, and co-starred with Helen Holmes in the Warners’s serial “The Tiger Band. “Worked in over sixty Vitagraph films as technical director or assistant director. In 1934, worked on the Japanese Movie Magazine and the Kodan Club, and was the owner of The Oriental Costume Company in Hollywood.

He died on December 11, 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Credits:

  • Cropped Stills – Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (A.M.P.A.S.)

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