Movies: Yokota Shokai

An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it survives today as a compilation of scenes from various different 1910s adaptations totaling nearly three hours in length. The bulk of the content com...

Sequel to the film "The Mito Kōmon Chronicles" (1910)....

First film adaptation of Mito Kōmon....

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first dramatic film in Kyoto. “Honnô-ji Gassen” was shot at Shinnyo-Do Temple. Considered a lost film....

The first version of a kabuki ghost story which would be filmed numerous times, the story is based on a historical incident which occurred in 1622 when an assassination attempt Tokugawa lemitsu, during his visit to Utsunomiya Castle. This alleged pla...

Legend tells the Watanabe-no-Tsuna, one of Raiko's demon-hunters, was summoned to Rashomon where an evil she-demon, Idaraki-doji, was praying on traveler's. He hacked off the demon's arm, but she later tricked him into returning it....

Earliest japanese horror film....

Earliest japanese horror film....

Japanese horror movie from 1912....

One of 3 movies released 1909 with the same name....

Japanese horror movie from 1910....

Japanese horror movie from 1909....

Perhaps a depiction of the mythic yanagi-baba, or "willow witch", a spirit which emerges when a willow tree is 1,000 years, Featuring the Matsudaira Ryutaro kabuki troupe....

Sugawara no Michizane was a poet/politician of the Heian period, who fell from grace and died in exile. It was said that his vengeful ghost was the cause of subsequent plagues, natural disasters, and deaths....

The first film vision of another seminal Japanese folk legend. Momotarô, the boy who was conceived when his elderly parents ate a magic peach and were rejuvenated for one final night of passionate sex. He proved to be a mighty hero, and an invincible...

Earliest japanese horror film....

Adaptation of Mito Kōmon....

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Horror short....

Japanese horror movie from 1912....