Join the Little Tokyo Historical Society and the Japanese American National Museum for a special screening of the 1919 silent film, The Dragon Painter, with live music composed and performed by Goh Nakamura. The program will include remarks by Dr. Daisuke Miyao, a professor of Japanese films at the University of California San Diego.

Written by film star Sessue Hayakawa, The Dragon Painter, stars Hayakawa as Tasu, the painter who lives in the mountains and believes that his princess fiancee was captured by a dragon, and Hayakawa’s wife Tsuru Aoki as Ume-Ko, the lost princess. When a surveyor discovers Tasu’s talent, famed artist Kano Indara seeks him out to be his heir. But once Tatsu meets Kano’s daughter and believes her to be his lost princess, they are led down an intense path of both joy and sorrow.

This program is presented in partnership with the Little Tokyo Historical Society.

Image: Screen shot of the 1919 film The Dragon Painter featuring actor Sessue Hayakawa and actress Tsuru Aoki.