Yoshizawa Shoten

An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it survives today as a compilation of scenes from...

The first film depiction of the Tenjiko Tokubei, an exotic adventurer, and the protagonist of Tsuruya Nambobu IV's first big kabuki success, Tenjiku...

Kisburo, a famous sumo wrestler, was said the have been confronted by malevolent goblin while staying in a haunted house.

Another version of the Kasamori legend.

Japanese horror movie from 1912.

Japanese horror movie from 1910.

Japanese horror movie from 1909.

Japanese horror movie from 1909.

A kabuki scene starring actors Ichikawa Udanji an Uchikawa Unosuke.

Earliest japanese horror film.

Earliest japanese horror film.

Earliest japanese horror film.

Earliest japanese horror film.

Earliest japanese horror film.

Earliest japanese horror film.

Earliest japanese horror film.

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...

Earliest japanese horror film.

Shot by Kichizo Chiba and featuring the Nobuchika Nakano kubuki troupe is one of the earliest Japanese film of the supernatural, and the first to...