MILESTONE TO RELEASE SESSUE HAYAKAWA'S FAMED SILENT FILM "THE DRAGON PAINTER"
ON DVD THIS MARCH 18TH
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Dear friends,
Twenty years after a promise to the archivist and Asian cinema scholar
Stephen Gong and several years in the production of the DVD, I am very happy to
announce the release of Sessue (The Bridge on the River Kwai) Hayakawa's silent
masterpiece, THE DRAGON PAINTER. And of course, being Milestone, we even have
bonus features for the bonus features including another extremely rare Hayakawa
feature (produced by the legendary Thomas Ince!), still galleries, press kits
and more! See below for details.
This is a great time for Sessue Hayakawa with the new biography by Daisuke
Miyao, a major film retrospective touring the country, and the amazing discovery
of “lost” Hayakawa films by our friends at the Nederlands Filmmuseum.
(Please see attached press release.)
Best regards,
Dennis Doros, Milestone Film & Video, Harrington Park, NJ 07640
Phone: (800) 603-1104 or (201) 767-3117 Fax: (201) 767-3035
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THE MILESTONE CINEMATHEQUE PRESENTS
THE DRAGON PAINTER
Restored by the George Eastman House Motion Picture Department
New digital master featuring original tinting
New ensemble score by composer Mark Izu
Deluxe bonus features include full-length feature film:
Thomas Ince's THE WRATH OF THE GODS, starring Sessue Hayakawa
Attached is the 72dpi pdf of the cover art.
Press kits can be downloaded: http://www.milestonefilms.com/presskits.php
Milestone Cinematheque titles on DVD!
KILLER OF SHEEP: THE CHARLES BURNETT COLLECTION
I AM CUBA: THE ULTIMATE EDITION
WINTER SOLDIER
ELECTRIC EDWARDIANS
THE BIG ANIMAL
THE CLAY BIRD
WHY HAS BODHI-DHARMA LEFT FOR THE EAST?: THE DIRECTOR'S EDITION
http://www.milestonefilms.com
THE DRAGON PAINTER
CAT #: MILE00108
ISBN #: 978-1-933920-07-8
UPC #: 784148010847
SRP: $29.95
PREBOOK: February 13, 2008
STREET: March 18, 2008
SYNOPSIS:
Sessue Hayakawa was one of the great stars of the silent cinema. In many
films he played a dashing, romantic lead - a rarity for Asian actors in Hollywood,
even today. Hayakawa became so popular and powerful that he was able to start
Haworth Pictures to control his own destiny. The Dragon Painter was the
finest of the Haworth productions. Beautifully acted, gorgeously shot (with
Yosemite Valley filling in for the Japanese landscape), and lovingly directed, the
film is an absolute marvel.
Hayakawa plays Tatsu, an artist living as a hermit in the wilds of Japan.
Thought mad by the local villagers, he believes that his princess fiancée has
been captured by a dragon. His obsession leads to artistic inspiration. It isn't
until a surveyor comes across Tatsu in the mountains that his genius is
discovered. The surveyor informs the famed artist Kano Indara about his discovery.
Kano is desperate to find a male heir to teach his art, but when Tatsu meets
Kano's daughter (played by Hayakawa's wife, 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 was rediscovered in a French
distribution print and brought to the George Eastman House for restoration with the
original tints. The film survives today as a tribute to Hayakawa's great
artistry and a shining example of Asian-American cinema.
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