Kenzo Masaoka's 1930 debut: a baby cast off a shipwreck drifts to an island of apes and is raised as one of them.

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/1939monkeyandcrabskenzomasaokaen1080p).

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