A traveling entertainer's song and dance at the Hakone checkpoint turns into a sword fight in Noburo Ofuji's 1930 short (Japanese version, no English subtitles).

Public domain (US): Japanese film published 1930; all works published before 1931 (including foreign works restored under URAA) are public domain in the US (95-year term expired). Source: Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/NoburoOfujiJP).

Credit: digital copy, English subtitles and title cards courtesy of the National Film Archive of Japan (NFAJ).