is a 1924 black and white Japanese silent film with

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accompaniment directed by Buntaro Futagawa. Often acclaimed as the predecessor to ''

Orochi Yamata no Orochi (ヤマタノオロチ, also written as 八岐大蛇, 八俣遠呂智 or 八俣遠呂知) is a legendary eight-headed and eight-tailed serpent that appears in Japanese mythology. Both the ''Kojiki'' and ''Nihon Shoki'' record the ...

'', it tells the tale of a nihilistic

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Kinema Junpo , commonly called , is Japan's oldest film magazine and began publication in July 1919. It was first published three times a month, using the Japanese ''Jun'' (旬) system of dividing months into three parts, but the postwar ''Kinema Junpō'' ha ...

キネマ旬報 1976年 p.345 played by Tsumasaburo Bando whose mother is killed, whose sister is used and deceived and who loses the only love of his life.

References

External links

''Gyakuryu'' on Internet Movie Database
1924 films Japanese silent films Japanese black-and-white films {{1920s-Japan-film-stub