The Dragon Painter (1919)
With Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Edward Peil, Toyo Fujita
Directed by William Worthington
The Dragon Painter is a 1919 American silent romantic drama film. It is based on the novel of the same name, written by Mary McNeil Fenollosa. It stars Sessue Hayakawa as a young painter who believes that his fiancée (played by Hayakawa's wife Tsuru Aoki), is a princess who has been captured and turned into a dragon. It was directed by William Worthington and filmed in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, and in the Japanese Tea Garden in Coronado, California.
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