Yoshizawa Shoten

An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it survives today as a compilation of scenes from various different 1910s adaptations totaling nearly three hours in length. The bulk of the content comes from the 1911 adaptation by legendary Japanese filmmaker Makino Shozo.

Another version of the Kasamori legend.

Japanese horror movie from 1910.

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 house, and wakes up to embrace of a rotting skeleton.

Earliest japanese horror film.

Infantrymen of the Imperial Guard carry out a military exercise on the Aoyama field in Tokyo.

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 specifically reference to the world of yurei ("ghosts").

Earliest japanese horror film.

Earliest japanese horror film.

Earliest japanese horror film.

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.

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

Japanese horror movie from 1912.

Japanese horror movie from 1909.

Earliest japanese horror film.

Earliest japanese horror film.

Earliest japanese horror film.

Japanese horror movie from 1909.