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 Gassen”...

Japanese horror movie from 1912.

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...

Japanese horror movie from 1910.

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...

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...

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...

Japanese horror movie from 1912.

One of 3 movies released 1909 with the same name.

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...

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...

Earliest japanese horror film.

Earliest japanese horror film.

Earliest japanese horror film.

Adaptation of Mito Kōmon.

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

First film adaptation of Mito Kōmon.