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- 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 plan involved luring lemitsu into a "death-trap" room with a falling ceiling filled with rocks. A sub-plot involves retribution bi the ghost of a man murdered and buried in a well by a usurer.
- Most likely derived from the 1899 ghost-fiction Utsunoyatoge Bunya Goroshi: Amayo No Kaidan ("The Murder of Bunya at Unsunoya Pass: A Rainy Night Ghost-Story") by Tairyu Shotin and Seiji Ishibashi.
- Earliest surviving feature film depicting legend of the 47 ronin (see Mizoguchi, Inagaki, Ichikawa, and others)
- See entry for Sakura Sogoro Ichidaiki (1909)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The first film vision of another seminal Japanese folk legend. Momotarô, the boy who was conceived when his elderly parents ate a magic peach and were rejuvenated for one final night of passionate sex. He proved to be a mighty hero, and an invincible defender of the Japanese people, travelling to the mythic island of Onigashima and killing all its demons.
- 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 was the first vision of Okiku, one of Japan's seminal avenging female ghosts. The legend of Okiku, a servant-girl tortured and murdered by Aoyama Tessan, her lustful master, was adapted for bunraku theatre under the title Banchu Sarayashiki in 1741, and Nakawa Harusuke I's kabuki version of the same name was the first staged in Osaka in 1824, In the play , Okiku is killed by being thrown down a well, from which her vengeful spectre duly emerges in a scene of horror previously depicted by ukiyo-e artists such as Hokusai, Kunisada,and Kuniyoshi, Tessan, haunted by the plate-smashing apparition, is subsequently driven mad, Yokota's film is also known as Banshu Sarayashiki Okiku No Yurai ("The Plate Mansion in Banshu: History O Okiku")