Zowonedwa Kwambiri Kuchokera Yokota Shokai

An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it survives today as a compilation of scenes from...

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first dramatic film in Kyoto. “Honnô-ji...

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...

First film adaptation of Mito Kōmon.

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...

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

Earliest japanese horror film.

Japanese horror movie from 1912.

Earliest japanese horror film.

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...

Horror short.

Japanese horror movie from 1912.

One of 3 movies released 1909 with the same name.

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...

One of the most popular of all Japan folk-tales is the famous undersea myth of Urashima Taro, the fisherman who is taken by a turtle to an underwater...

Adaptation of Mito Kōmon.

Japanese horror movie from 1910.

Japanese horror movie from 1909.

The first film vision of another seminal Japanese folk legend. Momotarô, the boy who was conceived when his elderly parents ate a magic peach...