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- 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.
- 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?
- Onoe Matsunosuke stars as Raiko, assailed by the demonic spider, see entry for Tsuchgumo (1910)
- Another depiction of the swordsman's mythic battles - see entry for Iwami Jitaro.
- It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.
- Bunbuku Chagama is the Japanese folk-tale concerning a tanuki who, grateful after being saved from a trap, turns into a tea-pot which the can sell , See also entry for Matsuyama Tanuki (1914) Another version of this story an animated film by Kitayama Seitaro, Otogi-Banashi: Bumbuku Chagama ("Fairy-Tale of Good Fortune in a Teacup"). 1917.
- Starring Matsunosuke Onoe, this supernatural film by Shôzô Makino was the first to explicitly reference the Japanese legend of the hyakki yagyo,or night parade of one hundred demons, celebrated in both literature and painted hand-scolls, which also relates to the nocturnal story-telling tradition of hykumanogatari kaidankai ("one hundred ghost stories"). in which one hundred candles were lit and extinguished, one by one, with the telling of a ghost story until the room was plunged into darkness. Muromachi Palace was the residence of the Ashikage clan, who ruled Japan from the 14th to16th centuries.
- See also entry for Okazaki Neko (1912).
- Another depiction of the ninja hero, starring Onoe Matsunosuke - see entry for Jiraiya Goketsu Tan-Banshi (1912)
- Like kitsune, the tanuki or raccoon-dog was an animal often said to have magical powers, in particular the ability to change shape. In old woodblock prints, tanuki were often depicted with gigantic testicles.