Samurai Town: Story 1 (1928) ***

Only an 8 min fragment survives from this silent "chambara jidai-geki" (samurai period movie) directed by Masahiro Makino. It's a fast-paced swashbuckling romp closer in spirit to Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops than to Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and it looks like it was edited by Edward Scissorhands after drinking too much sake, but it's definitely very entertaining.