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, ...See moreStarring 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. Written by
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