The Unwritten Code
Cast & Crew
Bernard J. Durning
Shirley Mason
Ormi Hawley
Matt Moore
Frank O'connor
Thomas Tomamoto
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Kimura, a drunk and a gambler, has no affection for his daughter Kiku-San, who falls in love with Dick Tower, an American college friend of her brother Okuma. After Suzuki, a geisha house proprietor, meets Kiku-San, he runs up Kimura's bill to such an exorbitant amount, that Kimura readily agrees to give him Kiku-San as payment. Seeing her peril, Tower and his friend Thompson rescue Kiku-San after fighting Suzuki and his patrons. Tower takes her to his home, and because this compromises her, they marry. Kiku-San and Tower are happy until his friends at the American Club snub them. Even Thompson encourages Tower to divorce her. After Tower meets Margaret, a wealthy American widow, he tires of being ostracized, and becomes cold to Kiku-San. Her sadness, conveyed to Okuma, causes him to threaten to kill Tower unless she refuses to go with him to America for Christmas. She does refuse, and Tower sails with Margaret, happy with the belief that Kiku-San wanted the separation, while Kiku-San sits in sorrow among cherry blossom trees.
Director
Bernard J. Durning
Cast
Shirley Mason
Ormi Hawley
Matt Moore
Frank O'connor
Thomas Tomamoto
F. Wada
Mr. Oskima
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
This film was shot in early 1918 in the Bronx studio of Thomas A. Edison, Inc. to be released as a Perfection picture. While in production, the film was entitled Aliens, Weavers of Dreams, The Heart of Kiku-San, and The Wall Invisible. This was one of the last productions of the Edison company, and was not released until World Film Corp. distributed it in 1919.
