Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kenpei to barabara shibijin
This is a film that is rather regularly mentioned in discussions of Japanese horror or schlock cinema, or in histories of Shintoho. Just a quick journey to my bookshelf found an entry on the film in Weisser's ''Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction'' and the film selected as one of "Japanese Ghost and Horror Film Masterpieces" in Bekkan Taiyō's ''Nihon horā eiga e no shōtai''. It's also covered in ''Nihon tokusatsu gensō eiga zenshū'' http://webcatplus.nii.ac.jp/webcatplus/details/book/2050582.html. Journalism at the time took it up, with Kinema Junpō, the major film magazine, publishing a review in the September 1959 issue (the separate "shōkai" is http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/%E6%86%B2%E5%85%B5%E3%81%A8%E3%83%90%E3%83%A9%E3%83%90%E3%83%A9%E6%AD%BB%E7%BE%8E%E4%BA%BA here). The National Film Center of Japan has even featured it in their retrospectives (see http://www.momat.go.jp/FC/NFC_Calendar/2003-02-03/kaisetsu.html#A-22 here--note that being "featured as part of a documentary, program, or retrospective on the history of cinema" is one of the conditions of ). It would not be hard to find more
— User:Michitaro, 15:52, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
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