Shot at the Kubutza in Tokyo and a rare record of two classical kubuki actors Onoe Eizaburo V and Ichimura Kakukiza VI A surviving poster for this film is illustrated by a woodblock print of the lead actors by ukiyoe artist Yutaka Hitoshi a frozen moment of the incipient transition from traditional artforms of ukiyoe and kabuki to the new and alldominating medium of katsudoshashin cinema
DirectorTsunekichi Shibata