Matsunosuke Onoe

Matsunosuke Onoe

Birth : 1875-09-12, Okayama, Japan

Death : 1926-09-11

History

Matsunosuke Onoe sometimes known as Medama no Matchan ("Eyeballs" Matsu), was a Japanese actor. His birth name is Tsuruzo Nakamura.[1] He is sometimes credited as Yukio Koki, Tamijaku Onoe, or Tsunusaburo Onoe, and as a kabuki artist he went by the name Tsurusaburo Onoe. He gained great popularity, appearing in over 1000 films, and has been called the first superstar of Japanese cinema.

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Matsunosuke Onoe

Movies

Zōho kaitei Chūshingura
Yoshio 'Kuranosuke' Ôishi
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.
Shibukawa Bangorō
A film on the life of Shibukawa Bangorō, the founder of the Shibukawa-ryū school of jūjutsu. To paraphrase Satō Tadao’s blurb on the back cover of the video, this is an important film for three reasons. 1. it is an almost perfectly well preserved copy of one of only a few full-length movies still available of the first superstar in Japanese cinema history, the very famous Onoe Matsunosuke. 2. it uses a method that was common in the silent era, the dyeing/tinting of film to mark given moments of day (for ex., blue for night-time) or given situations (for ex., red for fire) – and even though most films that used this technique have been redeveloped in straight b&w, this one is available in its original form. 3. it is an early SFX (special effects) movie that uses the basic tools of the trade - a great action movie full of swordsmanship and monsters (bakemono).
弥次喜多 前篇 善光寺詣りの巻
Yajirobei
Jiraiya the Hero
Jiraiya
Jiraiya is some sort of super-ninja with superpowers. He can fly, he can avoid detection by turning himself into a toad, and he has some sort of ability to vanish.
Yotsuya Kaidan (Jitsoroku Oiwa)
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Yotsuya Kaidan
A tale of betrayal, murder and revenge.
The 47 Loyal Ronin
An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it survives today as a compilation of scenes from various different 1910s adaptations totaling nearly three hours in length. The bulk of the content comes from the 1911 adaptation by legendary Japanese filmmaker Makino Shozo.