The Courageous Coward (movie)
- Production country: United States of America
- Producer: William Worthington
- Production companies: Haworth Pictures Corporation
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 3/31/1919
- Run time: 50 min.
Movie description
Sessue Hayakawa was making the transition from Asian villain to sympathetic hero in this picture. The plot is a combination of racial stereotypes that were common in the U.S. during the silent era and real-life situations experienced by Asians living Stateside. Hayakawa plays Suki Iota, a student who, while born and bred in America, wants a wife with traditional Japanese values. She appears in the form of Rei (Tsuru Aoki, Hayakawa's real-life wife), a singer who becomes known as the Japanese Nightingale.
