Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Movie 2: Attack of the Mecha-Vulcan
Discotek Media released both movies on Blu-ray and DVD for the first time in North America on March 27, 2018.
The Reckless Age
The Reckless Age is a 1924 silent film comedy-drama directed by Harry A. Pollard and starring Reginald Denny.
It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.
It is based on the novel "Love Insurance" by Earl Derr Biggers and is a remake of an earlier Paramount film "Love Insurance" (1919), now lost.
This film is preserved at Filmmuseum Amsterdam.
Shadow of Chinatown
Shadow of Chinatown is both a 1936 film serial and a feature film edited from the serial made by Sam Katzman's Victory Pictures.
Batman (serial)
Batman( or The Batman) is a 1943 black- and- white 15- chapter theatrical serial from Columbia Pictures, produced by Rudolph C. Flothow, directed by Lambert Hillyer, that stars Lewis Wilson as Batman and Douglas Croft as his sidekick Robin.
The serial is based on the DC Comics character Batman, who first appeared in" Detective Comics"# 27 in May 1939.
The villain is an original character named Dr. Daka, a secret agent of the Japanese Imperial government, played by J. Carrol Naish.
Rounding out the cast are Shirley Patterson as Linda Page, Bruce Wayne's love interest, and William Austin as Alfred, the Wayne Manor butler.
The serial's storyline involves the Batman, a secret U. S. government agent, attempting to defeat the sabotage schemes of Japanese agent Dr. Daka operating in Gotham City at the height of World War II.
Serving Daka are his traitorous American henchmen.
" Batman" is notable for being the first appearance on film of Batman and for debuting serial story details that quickly became permanent parts of the Batman comic's mythos: the Bat's Cave and its secret entrance through a grandfather clock inside Wayne Manor.
The serial also changed the course of how Alfred Pennyworth's physical appearance was depicted in Batman stories.
At the time" Batman" was released in theaters, Alfred was a portly gentleman in the comics.
Subsequent issues suddenly portrayed Alfred as trim and sporting a thin mustache, following actor William Austin's portrayal.
The serial was commercially successful and in 1949, four years after World War II, spawned another Columbia chapter serial," Batman and Robin".
The entire first" Batman" serial was re-released theatrically in 1965 as" An Evening with Batman and Robin", and proved very popular( some theatres showed the chapters as a Saturday matinee).
Its success inspired the action- comedy lampoon series" Batman"( and its 1966 theatrical feature film spin- off) starring Adam West and Burt Ward.
Heroes of the West (1932 film)
Heroes of the West( 1932) is a Universal Pre- Code movie serial that depicts the dangers and thrills of building a transcontinental railroad.
This was the 82nd serial( and the 14th serial with sound) to be released by Universal.
Reckless Age
Reckless Age is a 1944 American comedy film directed by Felix E. Feist and written by Gertrude Purcell and Henry Blankfort.
The film stars Gloria Jean, Henry Stephenson, Kathleen Howard, Franklin Pangborn, Andrew Tombes, Marshall Thompson, Jane Darwell, Lloyd Corrigan, Judy Clark and Jack Gilford.
The film was released on November 17, 1944, by Universal Pictures.
The Goose Hangs High
The Goose Hangs High is a 1925 American comedy silent film directed by James Cruze and written by Lewis Beach, Anthony Coldeway and Walter Woods.
It is now known as' The Reckless Age'.
The film stars Constance Bennett, Myrtle Stedman, George Irving, Esther Ralston, William R. Otis Jr., Edward Peil Jr. and Gertrude Claire.
The film was released on March 30, 1925, by Paramount Pictures.
Onmyōji (film)
A sequel," Onmyōji 2", appeared in 2003.
Both movies are based on the" Onmyōji" series of novels by author Baku Yumemakura, which also inspired a manga series by Reiko Okano.
This Reckless Age
This Reckless Age is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers and produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
The film is based on a Broadway play "The Goose Hangs High" by Lewis Beach.
One of over 700 Paramount films controlled by Universal Pictures, which in 1948 purchased most of the 1928-1948 Paramount library.
Love Insurance
Love Insurance is a lost 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Donald Crisp, produced by Famous Players- Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
It is based on the novel of the same name by Earl Derr Biggers," Love Insurance".
" Love Insurance" was later remade in 1924 as" The Reckless Age" and in sound era in 1940 as" One Night in the Tropics".

Question: Are both movies, Batman (Serial) and This Reckless Age, from the same country?
Answer: yes