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- When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
- Bangoro, the son of the judo instructor Shibukawa Hanryuken, saves Jinpachi and his daughter from Kurosaki Tenzen, who is holding them under a false pretext around the precincts of the Kanon Temple in Asakusa. He also punishes Sengo Tayu who has beaten Yotsuguruma in a sumo wrestling match by using a forbidden technique. However, Tenzen spreads false rumors about Bangoro, who is expelled by his judo school for abusing his fighting strength. One day, after Bangoro arbitrates a quarrel between two sumo wrestlers of the second highest rank, he is ordered by the Lord of Arima to kill an enormous spider. Where does this lead Bangoro?
- Another ghost story set in Edo's old pleasure quarters - see also entry for Kaidan Yoshiwara Kozakura.
- When a young wife cannot stop or tolerate her husband's return to being a soldier and going to war she instead blinds the man. After being freed from prison she returns home to beg her husband's forgiveness following which she commits suicide by drowning herself. Her husband not only forgives her, but soon afterwards jumps into the water after her as well.
- It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.
- Starring Matsunosuke Onoe, this supernatural film by Shôzô Makino was the first to explicitly reference the Japanese legend of the hyakki yagyo,or night parade of one hundred demons, celebrated in both literature and painted hand-scolls, which also relates to the nocturnal story-telling tradition of hykumanogatari kaidankai ("one hundred ghost stories"). in which one hundred candles were lit and extinguished, one by one, with the telling of a ghost story until the room was plunged into darkness. Muromachi Palace was the residence of the Ashikage clan, who ruled Japan from the 14th to16th centuries.