Name: Where Lights Are Low
Released: 1921
Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Togo Yamamoto, Goro Kino, Gloria Payton, Kiyosho Satow

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Also Known As

When Lights Are Low

Release Date

Sep 4, 1921

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Hayakawa Feature Play Co.

Distribution Company

R-C Pictures Corp.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the short story "East Is East" by Lloyd Osborne in Metropolitan Magazine (Apr 1920).

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Film Length

6 reels

Synopsis

T'Su Wong Shih, a Chinese prince, loves Quan Yin, a gardener's daughter, though his uncle plans to marry him into a wealthy mandarin family; and before leaving for America to obtain an education, he promises the girl that he will join her soon. Following graduation from college, while visiting a slave auction in San Francisco's Chinatown, he recognizes his beloved one and bids $5,000 for her; he wins but is unable to raise the required sum. The auctioneer agrees to give him a three-year extension on the payment, and T'Su Wong Shih goes to work at various sorts of jobs but meets with little success until he wins a lottery prize. Threats from an Oriental gangster induce the auctioneer to yield his captive, but T'Su Wong Shih engages in a fight with the gangster, rescues Quan Yin, and claims her for his wife.