THE LOVE OF A JAPANESE WOMAN (1913)
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The Love of a Japanese Woman
Drama
June 4, 1913
Russian
Unknown
Russia
Pathé
The wounded Russian Orloff, treated in a Japanese hospital, is watched over with devotion by the volunteer nurse Hanako, who seems charming to him. On Hanako's father's refusal, Lieutenant Orloff kidnaps the little geisha and brings her back to Moscow. Far from her native country, little Hanako no longer seems so pretty to the fickle Orloff who now prefers the beautiful Rayskaya. Unable to overcome her pain, the little geisha prefers to die.
Cast & Characters
Hanako
Japanese nurse
Aleksandr Rudnitsky
Orlov, Russian prisoner of war
Yelena Smirnova
Rayskaya, Russian emigrant