The Vermilion Pencil is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Norman Dawn, and produced and distributed by Robertson–Cole. It is based on the eponymous 1908 novel by Homer Lea. The film stars Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa in multiple roles, and white actors Ann May, Bessie Love, and Sidney Franklin, all in Asian roles. It is now a lost film.
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Sessue Hayakawa as Tse Chan / The Unknown / Li Chan
Ann May as His Wife
Misao Seki as Pai Wang
Bessie Love as Hyacinth
Sidney Franklin as Fu Wong
Thomas Jefferson as Ho Ling
Tote Du Crow as The Jackal
Omar Whitehead as Ma Shue
United States 19 March 1922
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