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Sessue Hayakawa and Tsuru Aoki.     Photograph: courtesy Pacific Film Archive.

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa [Tatsu, the Dragon Painter], Tsuru Aoki [Ume Ko], Toyo Fujita [Undobuchida], Edward Peil (Sr.) [Kano Indara]

The Haworth Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Robertson-Cole Company through Exhibitors Mutual Distributing Corporation. / Produced by Sessue Hayakawa. Scenario by E. Richard Schayer, from the novel The Dragon Painter by Mary McNeil Fenollosa. Art direction by Milton Menasco. Cinematography by Frank D. Williams. / © 10 September 1919 by The Haworth Pictures Corporation [LU14161]. Released [?] 28 September or 4 October? 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Drama.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive [35mm nitrate positive (French-language export version), 35mm restoration negative, and 35mm restoration positives], and in the Nederlands Filmmuseum film archive [35mm positive].

Keywords: Japanese - USA: California: Yosemite Valley

Listing updated: 6 February 2008.

References: Website-AFI; Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Elif Rongen-Kaynakci.

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