Product Description: 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.
2023 4K digital restoration by San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Eye Filmmuseum, and George Eastman Museum. The film was photochemically restored by AFI in 1988. However, this new restoration features recently discovered additional footage located at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam that greatly enhances the storyline of Umé-ko, portrayed by Hayakawa’s real-life wife Tsuru Aoki. Restoring the film today with modern restoration tools enabled an additional level of cleaning and repair resulting in a final version that more closely resembles the original appearance.
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JUMP BACK TO TOPDirector: William Worthington
Starring: Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Edward Peil Sr., Toyo Fujita
Genre: Silent, Drama, Romance
Runtime: 53 min
Rating: Not Rated
Language: English
Studio: Milestone
Home Video Release Date: September 24, 2024
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- Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
- Resolution: 1080p
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Region: Region A/1
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- Blu-ray: LPCM 2.0
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JUMP BACK TO TOPBlu-ray: English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch
SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS
JUMP BACK TO TOP- NEW RESTORATION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FILM
- Two scores for The Dragon Painter – by Mas Koga and Makia Matsumura
- Reconstructing The Dragon Painter (2024, 66 min.)
- His Birthright (1918, 47 min., starring Sessue Hayakawa)
- The Man Beneath (1919, 66 min., starring Sessue Hayakawa)
- Illustrated booklet
- Optional Dutch, French, German and Spanish subtitles
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