The Tale of the Heike
The Daiei Film production of Kenji Mizoguchi's 1955 film "Shin heike monogatari" (variously translated as "Taira Clan Saga, Tales of the Taira Clan", and "The Sacrilegious Hero") credits its story as "from the novel by Yoshikawa Eiji", which in turn is a 1950 retelling of the 14th-century epic "The Tale of the Heike". The opening introduction to the film, in its English subtitles, is