Movies: Matsunosuke Onoe

Jiraiya is some sort of super-ninja with superpowers. He can fly, he can avoid detection by turning himself into a toad, and he has some sort of ability to vanish....

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 com...

Japanese horror movie from 1916. Produced by Nikkatsu....

Film about Ghost-Cat....

In the City of Saints, a woman's prayer gets painted and a failed cinematographer soothes his bitterness by uploading his recordings of film screenings for pay....

Japanese horror movie from 1914....

Japanese horror movie from 1920....

A film on the life of Shibukawa Bangorō, the founder of the Shibukawa-ryū school of jūjutsu. To paraphrase Satō Tadao’s blurb on the back cover of the video, this is an important film for three reasons. 1. it is an almost perfectly well preserved cop...

Arima Ghost-Cat movie....

Japanese horror movie from 1920....

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Japanese horror movie from 1914....

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master....

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short film about Banchō Sarayashiki....

Japanese horror movie from 1913....

Japanese horror movie from 1918....

Japanese horror movie from 1919....

The first version of a kabuki ghost story which would be filmed numerous times, the story is based on a historical incident which occurred in 1622 when an assassination attempt Tokugawa lemitsu, during his visit to Utsunomiya Castle. This alleged pla...