<div dir="auto">Aaron,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">True, I also would not call Kurutta a true horror film, thoughit has some disturbingly fantastic elements.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I was not aware you wrote a book on it. I will certainly check it out. To be honest, I knew nothing about the film until recently but now I am quite fascinated with it.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I was surprised to find out Tsuburaya Eiji was assistant cameraman on it.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you for your insight.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Pete</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">2020年3月7日(土) 午後11:47 Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Some initial answers:<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><br>Is it really the case that there are no horror (or horroresque) films between 

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif-light,sans-serif">狂つた一頁(1926)　and 地獄 (1960)？<br></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Having written a book on Kurutta, I am a bit hesitant to call it a horror film, but putting that aside, there are still a lot of ghost films made between then. Some famous examples include Suzuki Sumiko’s ghost cat films in the late 1930s, Irie Takako’s ghost cat films in the early 50s, and the Shintoho ghost films in the late fifties, with Nakagawa’s Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan (1959) being the most famous. There seem to have been about a dozen versions of Yotsuya kaidan made in the twenties alone, so there were plenty of silent ghost films. Most are not extant. <br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif-light,sans-serif"><br>Is </span>

狂つた一頁 the only extant silent film from Kokame? I am assuming that since he stored them, something must exist but I am trying to find any of them online and coming up dry. </div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Of course Jujiro is still extant and came out on DVD a number of years ago (in a cut rate version). The NFAJ has fragments of some of Kinugasa’s other silent films.</div><br><div>
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