"When Sessue Hayakawa published his autobiography Zen Showed Me the Way in 1960, he dedicated it to two people: Cecil B. DeMille and Thomas H. Ince. DeMille, of course, cast the actor in his great critical success, The Cheat (1915), but it was Ince who first saw Hayakawa's screen potential in 1913 and featured him in two multiple-reel releases, The Typhoon and The Wrath of the Gods, as well as in a series of smaller films.... The Wrath of the Gods relies on the sure-fire combination of an intimate love story and a natural disaster for much, if not all of its drama, and both elements are well-handled. The suggestion of the earthquake and the miniature work on the volcano of Sakura-Jim are primitive by any modern standard, yet they were more than adequate for the time. With the addition of fiery red tinting as called for in the script, Raymond B. West's special effects were surely striking.... Likewise, the love story between Toya San (Tsuru Aoki, soon to be Hayakawa's real-life wife) and Wilson (Frank Borzage) is delicately drawn, marred only by the era's insistence upon the bride-to-be's conversion to the Christian faith as a prerequisite for marriage to a Westerner." Steven Higgins, The Museum of Modern Art (Thomas H. Ince retrospective)