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- An adventure film with benshi performers.
- Another version of the classic ghost story - see entry for Botan Doro.
- Among the many famous 16th-century samurai who made the leap from myth and ukiyo-e to early cinema screen was sword-master Miyamoto Musashi, previously depicted in prints by Kiniyoshi Yoshitoshi and others slaying an array of grotesque creatures including giant bats, giant lizards, and the mythical tengu. This imagery informed his first screen depiction in Miyamoto Musashi Taiji No Ba, which showed him combatting the mythic white ape of the mountains.
- Perhaps the horrific final scene from the kabuki play Katsuragawa Renri No Shigarami, the double suicide by drowning of a middle-aged man and his pubescent girl lover.
- The first film depiction of the Tenjiko Tokubei, an exotic adventurer, and the protagonist of Tsuruya Nambobu IV's first big kabuki success, Tenjiku Tokubei Ikoku-Banashi (1804). Based on a real-life navigator, the play was remarkable for its heavy emphasis on the supernatural, conveyed through spectacular special effects: a famous highlight is the entrance of Tokubei astride a giant, poison gas-breathing toad, brandishing a man's severed head.
- The first film of Botan Dôrô, the famous ghost story by Encho Sayutei, concerning a man who makes love to a beautiful woman in a strange house, and wakes up to embrace of a rotting skeleton.
- Scenes from Kaidan Tsuko No Kasamori, a kabuki ghost story by the playwright Kawatake Mokuami, first performed in 1897, and based on the legend of Kasamori Osen, an 18th century beauty who mysteriously disappeared from pubic life after marrying a shogunate guard. Although she believed to have lived on in seclusion, rumors arose of a darker fate; in Mokuami's play she is brutally murdered and returns as a ghost. The slaughter of Kasmori Osen was one of several blood-splattered scenes from Yoshitoshi's famous ukiyo-e series Eimei Nijuhasshuku ("28 Famous Murders in Verse") from 1866.
- The first direct film depiction on Namboku IV's famous ghost story of Oiwa - See entry for Oiwa Inari (1910)
- Presenting the legend of Yaegaki-hime, a princess who first figured in the 1766 bunraku play Honcho Nijushiko ("Twenty-Four Acts of Filial Piety"), which was the basis for numerous kabuki dramas of the following century. is protected by kitsune, magic-foxes, and the fox-fire dance-scene Kitsunebi was an integral part of most kabuki stagings of the story. See also entry for Itazura Kitsune. (1910)
- Kisburo, a famous sumo wrestler, was said the have been confronted by malevolent goblin while staying in a haunted house.
- The first film interpretation of the legend of Jiraiya, a shape-shifting ninja with the transform into a gigantic frog or toad. First recorded in 1806, the story also involves Tsunade-hime, a princess empowered with slug magic, and Orochimaru, an evil sorcerer who uses snake magic. a classic striking episodes feature Jiraiya's batrachian magic against the ophidian powers of Orochimaru, a classic confrontation of good and evil in such kabuki production as Kawatake Shinshichi II's Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari (1892), starring Ichikawa Danjuro VIII), which was in turn based on a book series of the same name, published from 1839 on-wards and partly illustrated by Kunisada, who modelled the hero Jiraiya after kabuki actor Onoe Kikugogo III. Like many classic kabuki dramas, Jiraiya Goketsu Monagatari was perfectly suited to the phantastic film format. With Jiraya Goketsu Tan-Banshi, Yoshizawa not only stages the cinematic inauguration one of Japan's most popular heroes, but also sowed the seeds of a ninja film sub-genre which explode into life three years later.
- Another version of the Kasamori legend - see entry for Kaidan Tsuki No Kasamori.
- A Ghost Story.