The Temple of Dusk is a lost[1] 1918 American silent drama film directed by James Young.

[2] As described in a film magazine,[3] Akira (Hayakawa), a Japanese poet who lives in Tokyo, falls in love with an American, Ruth Vale (Novak), who has grown to womanhood under his father's care.

Three years elapse and Ruth dies of an illness, leaving a baby in the poet's care.

An allegorical scene shows Akira and Ruth entering the Temple of Dusk together.

For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut, in Reel 3, of the scene with the wife at the mantle and her lover on the couch and the first kissing scene between wife and lover where Akira discovers them.