Forbidden Paths (1917)

Sato Sessue Hayakawa faithfully works for importer James Thornton James Neill When the old man dies he leaves his daughter Mildred Vivian Martin in Satos care Sato loves the girl but as he is Japanese he cannot hope to ever marry her at least not in the racially prejudiced era of the early 1900s Besides Mildred loves Harry Maxwell Tom Forman who was raised alongside her