While visiting Alan, who works in Tokyo, she attends a festival with her Japanese maid while wearing a Japanese kimono. There she meets the wealthy Arai Takada, who is taken by the mysterious woman. Alan has dishonored and betrayed O'Mitsu, and her brother Arai plans a terrible revenge.
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Sessue Hayakawa as Arai Takada
Tsuru Aoki as O'Mitsu, His Sister
Jack Holt as Alan Hepburn
Margaret Loomis as Sheila Hepburn
James Cruze as Janzo
Ernest Joy as Col. Bassett
Guy Oliver as Cadger
Jane Wolfe as Yuri
Percy Hilburn Director of Photography
Max Parker Art Direction
George Melford Director
Wilfred Buckland Art Direction
Beulah Marie Dix Screenplay
Jesse L. Lasky Producer
United States 15 October 1917
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