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- 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.
- Another version of the Kasamori legend - see entry for Kaidan Tsuki No Kasamori.
- 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.
- A Ghost Story.
- An adventure film with benshi performers.
- Kisburo, a famous sumo wrestler, was said the have been confronted by malevolent goblin while staying in a haunted house.
- The French Zigomar crime-films by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, which began in 1911 with Zigomar, Roi Des Voleurs, were incredibly popular in Japan, inspiring Japanese producers to shoot their own Zigomar imitations, such as Nihoma Jigoma and Shis Jigoma Dai Tantei ("New Zigomar: Great Detection", M Pate, 1912) This phenomenon also helped film-makers to incorporate European techniques, such as faster editing, into the developing Japanese cinema. Unfortunately, it also contributed to the rise of the censorship by police in that country; when daily newspapers began to attribute crimes to the "immoral" influence" of Zigomar on the young, police stepped in with bans and and a new film exhibition code was drawn up, proscribing works which "promoted" adultery, crime, cruelty, obscenity, or moral corruption - up to that point, films in Japan had been governed by laws of misemomo ("exhibition") which applied to itinerent freak-shows and other bizarre attractions.
- 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.
- Ghost story, details unconfirmed.