The Wrath of the Gods is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Reginald Barker and starring Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Frank Borzage, Thomas Kurihara and Henry Kotani.

Baron Yamaki (Sessue Hayakawa) is a fisherman who lives along with his daughter Toya San (Tsuru Aoki) on an island.

Toya finds it difficult to form relationships with boys because the village prophet Takeo (Thomas Kurihara) has spread the rumour that she is cursed.

When Yamaki takes Toya-san to the Buddha shrine in the garden of his house to pray and try to get the curse removed, she vents her feelings about the god's unfairness.

At the end of the film, Tom tells his bride, "Your gods may be powerful, Toya San, but mine has proved his omnipotence.

The Toledo Blade reported on 24 January 1914 that "News of the eruption was hardly a day old before Mr. Ince had built in Santa Monica canyon a whole Japanese village".

[1] Ince had constructed a very large village in his studio Inceville in Culver City, California, and decided, where possible, to use Japanese people instead of Americans as extras.

Actress Enid Markey was "badly injured" during the production; during her scene in which the lava flow destroys the village she was surrounded by smoke and fumes and nearly asphyxiated, but had recovered by May 1914.

[1][7] Ince also embroidered her biography so that she would appeal to the middle-class audiences as the heroine of a melodrama, claiming that she was the daughter of an illustrious Japanese artist.

"[9] The film's shipwreck scene was shot off the coast of Santa Monica,[9] and an erupting volcano was also included among its lavish effects.

"[13] The Wrath of the Gods was purported to have attracted 21,000 spectators when Marcus Loew screened it along with a vaudeville bill at the opening of his summertime evening entertainment at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.

[20] The Chicago Daily Tribune called the film "impressive", and spoke of the "scenic splendor" and the "vigorous beauty of the outdoor settings".

[21] True Republican wrote that "In the motion picture field [the film] was greater than The Darling of the Gods in drama, or Madame Butterfly in opera."

"[24] The lead actress Tsuru Aoki's acting was also highly appreciated for adding "the sense of naturalness to the archetypal narrative between Japan and the United States.

[25][26][27] The father Yamaki sacrifices himself in order to cut all ties between her daughter and Japan hoping that she would be protected by Tom and his Christian God.