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Sessue Hayakawa (The Bridge on the River Kwai) plays Tatsu, a painter-turned-hermit living in the wilds of Japan. Thought mad by local villagers, he truly believes that his princess fiancée has been captured by a dragon, an obsession that leads him daily to artistic inspiration. When a surveyor comes across Tatsu while trekking across the mountains, he informs famed artist Kano Indara about his discovery. Kano is desperate to find an heir to teach his art, but when Tatsu meets Kano’s daughter (Tsuru Aoki) and sees only his lost princess, a clash of wills brings the household to the brink of disaster. Long considered lost, THE DRAGON PAINTER survives today as a tribute to Hayakawa’s talents and a shining example of Asian-American cinema, complete with a score by Japanese-American composer Mark Izu.
- Includes Thomas Ince’s The Wrath of the Gods (1914), starring Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki and Frank Borzage
- Restored tinted print courtesy of George Eastman House
- William Worthington - Director
- Sessue Hayakawa - Actor
- Tsuru Aoki - Actor
- Edward Peil Sr. - Actor
- Toyo Fujita - Actor
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