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The Dragon Painter

Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 7:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre
still from The Dragon Painter

The Dragon Painter (1919)

(William Worthington, US 1919, 56 min., 35mm)

Produced under Sessue Hayakawa’s production company, Haworth Pictures, the film stars Hayakawa as the titular artist. Tatsu (Hayakawa) hides out in the mountains producing beautiful paintings of dragons, satisfying his fervent belief that his fiancee was turned into a dragon. Tempted out of the mountains to Tokyo, Tatsu meets and falls in love with Ume-Ko (Tsuru Aoki), daughter of the famous artist Kano Indara (Edward Peil, Sr.). The two are married, but Tatsu’s happiness leads to complacency and a lack of artistic ambition. In order to prompt her husband back to his art, she devises a dangerous plan.

Live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli.

 

Event Details

Dryden Theatre
$7 members
$10 nonmembers
$5 students with ID

$5 17 and under

Advance tickets encouraged.

Patrons must show proof of COVID vaccination (regardless of age), photo ID and wear masks. 

Tickets no longer for sale

About This Series

Asian Americans in Hollywood

Last summer the Dryden Theatre presented the series “In Solidarity: Celebrating Asian/Pacific American Directors,” which focused on directors of Asian and Pacific Islander descent who told stories through their own lens. But Asian Americans were working in film since the silent era, both in front of and behind the camera. This series will highlight three of the biggest Asian American contributors from the first seven decades of cinema: actress Anna May Wong, actor Sessue Hayakawa, and cinematographer (and George Eastman Award honoree) James Wong Howe.

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