Supernatural & Occult, Movements & Traditions
Night-Blossoms of Saga
1910
Lost film
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One of the most noteworthy early films of the supernatural, and the first known kaibyo ("ghost-cat") film, This film was based upon Hana Saga Nekomata Zoshi ("Legend of the Cat-Demon of Saga") a kabuki play written in 1853 by Joko Segawa III in which a cat becomes possessed by drinking a suicide's blood and carries out the corpses's vengeance from beyond the grave.
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- Studio
- M Pathé Shôkai
- Origin country
- Japan
- Language
- ja
Released January 1, 1910·佐賀の夜桜