"Lost film"

Night-Blossoms of Saga

One of the most noteworthy early films of the supernatural, and the first known kaibyo ("ghost-cat") film, This film was based upon Hana Saga Nekomata Zoshi ("Legend of the Cat-Demon of Saga") a kabuki play written in 1853 by Joko Segawa III in which a cat becomes possessed by drinking a suicide's blood and carries out the corpses's vengeance from beyond the grave.