Five Days to Live
Tai Leung, a young man who dreams of love and carves ivory images, falls in love with the pretty Kao Ai. Her cruel foster father owns a restaurant where she works, and he overworks and mistreats her. She blossoms when she meets Tai Leung, who is determined to rescue her from her hard life. Her foster father agrees to let her go, but only if Tai pays him a large sum of money. Desperate for money, Tai learns of a condemned pirate, "The Wolf," who has been sentenced to hang and will pay a lot of money for a substitute, and Tai agrees to take The Wolf's place on the gallows to ensure Ko Ai's happiness. However, things don't work out quite the way Tai planned.
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Cast
6 people
Sessue Hayakawa
Tai Leung
Known for
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Swiss Family Robinson
Tsuru Aoki
Ko Ai
Also in
The Dragon Painter
The Wrath of the Gods
Goro Kino
Chong Wo
Also in
Where Lights Are Low
Lotus Blossom
Misao Seki
Li
Known for
A Page of Madness
Toyo Fujita
Young Foo
Also in
The Dragon Painter
The Tong Man
George Kuwa
Hop Sing
Also in
Moran of the Lady Letty
When the Clouds Roll By
Norman Dawn Director · Garrett Fort Writer Eve Unsell Writer
United States release January 8, 1922 · Produced in United States · Languages English, No dialogue
Production
Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation
Production
United States
Produced in
The Street of the Flying Dragon
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Languages
Original language
English
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English · No dialogue
Release dates
United States · January 8, 1922
Theatrical
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