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- Earliest surviving feature film depicting legend of the 47 ronin (see Mizoguchi, Inagaki, Ichikawa, and others)
- Sugawara no Michizane was a poet/politician of the Heian period, who fell from grace and died in exile. It was said that his vengeful ghost was the cause of subsequent plagues, natural disasters, and deaths.
- 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.
- 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.
- See entry for Sakura Sogoro Ichidaiki (1909)
- One of the most popular of all Japan folk-tales is the famous undersea myth of Urashima Taro, the fisherman who is taken by a turtle to an underwater kingdom; in the palace of the Dragon King, he dreams for three centuries before returning to find himself in the distant future. Yokota Shokai was founded by Yokota Einosuke in 1901.
- This is the first known film version of the ghost/horror story by Encho Sanyutei, and also one of the earliest Japanese ghost movies. Encho's tale of murder and revenge was first adapted for the kabuki stage in 1897, under the title Kaidan Chibusa no Enoki.