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Earliest surviving feature film depicting legend of the 47 ronin (see Mizoguchi, Inagaki, Ichikawa, and others)

The first film depiction of Jutaro, a legendary warrior and swordsman who served under Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the 16th century. As well as being celebrated in kabuki plays. Jutaro was depicted as a monster-slayer in many striking ukiyo-e woodblock prints of the 19th century; Yoshitoshi's macabre 1865 triptych Iwami Jutaro Kai O Ukagau ("Iwamu Jutaro Encounters A Monster") shows him confronting the monstrous hihi - a giant white ape-like creature of the mountain forest - while a naked girl is prepared for human sacrifice by demons. Jutaro's vanquishing of the mythic white ape was also notably captured in a 1859 print by Yoshitora, and presented in the kagura (theatre-dance) Iwami Jutaro.

The first known film relating to the classic ghost story Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan ("Ghost Story of Yotsuya on the Tokaido", 1825), a kabuki play written by Tsuruya Nanboku IV and first performed at Tokyo's Nakamura theatre, Like most pf Nanboku's supernatural pieces, Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan was filled with scenes of violence, betrayal, blood, cruelty, disfigurement, haunting's and horror, The play's basic story concerns a ronin, lemon, who commits adultery and tries to kill his wife, Oiwa. by poisoning. She survives but is hideously disfigured; finally he kills her, but she returns as a vengeful ghost, or onryo.

See entry for Banshu Sarayashiki. (1911)

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.