Films produced by Yokota Shokai

Horror short.

First film adaptation of Mito Kōmon.

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first dramatic film in Kyoto. “Honnô-ji...

Japanese horror movie from 1912.

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...

Sequel to the film "The Mito Kōmon Chronicles" (1910).

Legend tells the Watanabe-no-Tsuna, one of Raiko's demon-hunters, was summoned to Rashomon where an evil she-demon, Idaraki-doji, was praying on...

An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it survives today as a compilation of scenes from...

Earliest japanese horror film.

Earliest japanese horror film.

One of 3 movies released 1909 with the same name.

Japanese horror movie from 1910.

The first film vision of another seminal Japanese folk legend. Momotarô, the boy who was conceived when his elderly parents ate a magic peach...

Perhaps a depiction of the mythic yanagi-baba, or "willow witch", a spirit which emerges when a willow tree is 1,000 years, Featuring the Matsudaira...

Adaptation of Mito Kōmon.

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...

Japanese horror movie from 1912.

Japanese horror movie from 1909.

Earliest japanese horror film.

Horror short.

First film adaptation of Mito Kōmon.

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first dramatic film in Kyoto. “Honnô-ji...

Japanese horror movie from 1912.