''Jiraiya the Hero'' is a 1921 Japanese silent short film directed by
Shōzō Makino. The film is also known as .
Cast
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Matsunosuke Onoe
, sometimes known as Medama no Matchan (''"Eyeballs" Matsu''), was a Japanese actor. His birth name is Tsuruzo Nakamura. He is sometimes credited as Yukio Koki, Tamijaku Onoe, or Tsunusaburo Onoe, and as a kabuki artist he went by the name Tsuru ...
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Jiraiya
Jiraiya (自来也 or 児雷也, literally "Young Thunder"), originally known as Ogata Shuma Hiroyuki (尾形周馬寛行), is the toad-riding protagonist of the Japanese folk tale Katakiuchi Kidan Jiraiya Monogatari (報仇奇談自来也説話, " ...
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Suminojo Ichikawa as Orochimaru
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Kijaku Otani as Tsukikagegunryo Miyukinosuke
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Chosei Kataoka as
Tsunatehime
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Shoen Kataoka as Takasago Yuminosuke
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Enichiro Jitsukawa
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Ichitaro Kataoka
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Masatada Makino
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1921 films
Japanese-language films
Japanese black-and-white films
Japanese silent short films
1921 short films
1920s Japanese films
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