# Jiraiya the Hero (1921)

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**Original title**: *豪傑児雷也*
**Runtime**: 21 min
**Genres**: Action, Fantasy
**Directed by**: Shōzō Makino
**Starring**: Matsunosuke Onoe, Suminojo Ichikawa, Kijaku Ôtani, Chosei Kataoka, Shôen Kataoka, En'ichirō Jitsukawa

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You're a rogue ninja in the mist-laced alleys of Edo, blade sheathed, eyes scanning the shadows.  
And then your flesh puckers into warty brown skin as you slip into the sewer, hunted and haunting.  
Silent film irises flare like foxfire—this is myth as mime, magic born in smoke and stagecraft.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult

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