[KineJapan] Japanese silent horror

[Gerow Aaron]

Some initial answers:
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> Is it really the case that there are no horror (or horroresque) films between  狂つた一頁(1926)　and 地獄 (1960)？

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. 
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> Is  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. 

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.

Aaron Gerow
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