The Dragon Painter

The Dragon Painter

Rejissyor: William Worthington, Richard Schayer, Mary McNeil Fenollosa. I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, along with other pictures of the era that I find interesting, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. In this silent romance drama, Tatsu, played by Sessue Hayakawa, is a painter who lives in the mountains of Hakawa, Japan. He has a strange obsession that the villagers gossip about: he believes he once had a fiancé who was turned into a dragon by the gods. This film from Hayakawa's independent studio was a minor success upon release, and since being rediscovered in 1988 has found new fans worldwide.

https://archive.org/details/the-dragon-painter-1919 · Internet Archive: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/