[KineJapan] Japanese silent horror

[Peter Larson]

Aaron,

True, I also would not call Kurutta a true horror film, thoughit has some
disturbingly fantastic elements.

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.

I was surprised to find out Tsuburaya Eiji was assistant cameraman on it.

Thank you for your insight.

Pete

2020年3月7日(土) 午後11:47 Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>:

> 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)？
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> 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.
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> 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.
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