Acting
Matsunosuke Onoe
Born 1875-09-12 · Okayama, Japan
Matsunosuke Onoe sometimes known as Medama no Matchan ("Eyeballs" Matsu), was a Japanese actor. His birth name is Tsuruzo Nakamura.[1] He is sometimes credited as Yukio Koki, Tamijaku Onoe, or Tsunusaburo Onoe, and as a kabuki artist he went by the name Tsurusaburo Onoe. He gained great popularity, appearing in over 1000 films, and has been called the first superstar of Japanese cinema.
Acting credits
5.4Jiraiya is some sort of super-ninja with superpowers. He can fly, he can avoid detection by turning himself into a toad, and he has some sort of ability to vanish.
Jiraiya the Hero
1921
Japanese horror movie from 1921.
Tenjiku Tokubei
1921
NRIn the City of Saints, a woman's prayer gets painted and a failed cinematographer soothes his bitterness by uploading his recordings of film screenings for pay.
TS-CAM
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No synopsis available yet.
The Loyal 47 Ronin
1913
Horror short.
Iwami Jûtarô
1914
No synopsis available yet.
Iwami Jûtarô
1924
Film about Ghost-Cat.
Ekō-in no nekotsuka
1918
No synopsis available yet.
Yotsuya Kaidan (Jitsoroku Oiwa)
1918
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Iwami Jûtarô
1917
9.0An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it survives today as a compilation of scenes from various different 1910s adaptations totaling nearly three hours in length. The bulk of the content comes from the 1911 adaptation by legendary Japanese filmmaker Makino Shozo.
The 47 Loyal Ronin
1910
NRNo synopsis available yet.
弥次喜多 前篇 善光寺詣りの巻
1921
Period piece debuting Matsunosuke Onoe
Goban Tadanobu
1909
5.8A film on the life of Shibukawa Bangorō, the founder of the Shibukawa-ryū school of jūjutsu. To paraphrase Satō Tadao’s blurb on the back cover of the video, this is an important film for three reasons. 1. it is an almost perfectly well preserved copy of one of only a few full-length movies still available of the first superstar in Japanese cinema history, the very famous Onoe Matsunosuke. 2. it uses a method that was common in the silent era, the dyeing/tinting of film to mark given moments of day (for ex., blue for night-time) or given situations (for ex., red for fire) – and even though most films that used this technique have been redeveloped in straight b&w, this one is available in its original form. 3. it is an early SFX (special effects) movie that uses the basic tools of the trade - a great action movie full of swordsmanship and monsters (bakemono).
Shibukawa Bangorō
1922
Japanese horror movie from 1913.
Life Story of Iwami Jutaro
1913
No synopsis available yet.
Botan Dōrō
1914
The 1000th film for actor Matsunosuke Onoe, made for Nikkatsu Studios.
Araki Mataemon
1925
Film about Ghost-cat.
Monster-Cat of Sanno
1914
Arima Ghost-Cat movie.
Arima no nekô sôdô
1916
Film about Ghost-Cat.
Arima no neko
1920
Horror short.
Iwami Jûtarô
1911
Okazaki Ghost-Cat movie.
The Okazaki Cat
1914
No synopsis available yet.
Iwami Jûtarô
1922
Japanese horror movie from 1916. Produced by Nikkatsu.
Kaiketsu Ondo maru
1916
No synopsis available yet.
Iwami Jûtarô
1919