I love Daiei, especially the Zatoichi films.

If I am not mistaken the Zatoichi movies started being produced in 1965 by Daiei studios. The same year Daiei first started making Gamera movies. I think miramax is no involved with Zatoichi the Blind swordsman/Samurai. But back to Golem wasnt Golem in an old Abbott&Costello tv show?

I believe the Edison Frankenstiens is lost, too. I have seen a few seconds of footage of Charles Ogle in his Mosnter make up but I think that's all that exists.

Isn't this movie, the first one I mean, available on DVD? I thought I saw it somewhere. This is the most I've read/heard about the film. Sounds interesting.

The one that' s on video is the second film. Werger was unhappy with the 1914 version which was set in the then current year and so he remade it, filming the story exactly the way he'd originally heard it. This is the one that's on DVD now. Like I said, the first one is lost.

Lets not forget it was when Paul Wegener was in Prague filming a new movie that he heard of an old Jewish Legend that the Jews told him that it inspired him to make his next film using the legend as it basis for the movie. That next movie in 1914 was Der Golem.