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- Historical nobleman Taira no Koremori fights a demon who has disguised itself as Princess Sarashina.
- Based in the kabuki dance scene Ninin Dojoji ("Two Virgins at Dojo Temple"), first performed in 1835 under the title Wake Fuatsu Ninin Dojoji, and based on the legend of Kiyo-hime, the vengeful princess who transformed into a snake. Nihon Sossen Katsudo Shashin-kai was founded by Koyo Kamada.
- Shot at the Kubut-za in Tokyo and a rare record of two classical kubuki actors, Onoe Eizaburo V and Ichimura Kakuki-za VI, A surviving poster for this film is illustrated by a woodblock print of the lead actors by ukiyo-e artist Yutaka Hitoshi, a frozen moment of the incipient transition from traditional art-forms of ukiyo-e and kabuki to the new, and all-dominating medium of katsudo-shashin (cinema).