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- Bangoro, the son of the judo instructor Shibukawa Hanryuken, saves Jinpachi and his daughter from Kurosaki Tenzen, who is holding them under a false pretext around the precincts of the Kanon Temple in Asakusa. He also punishes Sengo Tayu who has beaten Yotsuguruma in a sumo wrestling match by using a forbidden technique. However, Tenzen spreads false rumors about Bangoro, who is expelled by his judo school for abusing his fighting strength. One day, after Bangoro arbitrates a quarrel between two sumo wrestlers of the second highest rank, he is ordered by the Lord of Arima to kill an enormous spider. Where does this lead Bangoro?
- Another variation on the cat-demon genre - see entries for Saga No Yozakura (1910) and Arima Kaibyo-Den
- Another film depiction of the legendary toad-magician Tokubi - see also entry for Matuyama Tanuki (1914)
- When a young wife cannot stop or tolerate her husband's return to being a soldier and going to war she instead blinds the man. After being freed from prison she returns home to beg her husband's forgiveness following which she commits suicide by drowning herself. Her husband not only forgives her, but soon afterwards jumps into the water after her as well.
- It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.
- Another variation on the cat-demon genre - see entries for Saga No Yozakura (1910) and Arima Kaibyo-Den (1914).
- In legend, the old hag of Adachi killed and robbed any travelers's who stopped her hovel; the hag's daughter, desperate to stop her killing, finally disguised herself as a man. The hag smashed her brains out with a stone and then, realising her mistake, hurled herself into the pond and drowned, still clutching her daughter's corpse. Another version of the legend was most famously depicted by ukiyo-e artiest Yoshitoshi in Oshu Adachigahara Hitotsura No Zu ("Picture of the House on Adachi Moor in Oshu"), 1885), a vertical diptych showing a heavily pregnant, bare-breasted young girl suspended high in the by a rope binding her ankles; below her the old hag of Adachi, a cannibal witch, prepares to hack out the girl's unborn foetus with a knife.
- See also entry for Okazaki Neko (1912).