- Hunchbacked Japanese artist Marashida, marries Jewel, the daughter of Yasakuj. Their happy married life is destroyed when the daughter of an American missionary, Alice Carroway, known as Ali-San, persuades Marashida to pose for her sculpture of the deformed god Ni-O. While Marashida's character gradually deforms, Yasakuji recognizes in Ali-San the traits of the legendary Fox Woman, who because she had no soul of her own, stole those of others, sometimes turning warriors into crazy beasts. After Jewel, to please Marashida, indulges Ali-San's demand that she be her "playmate," she suffers further humiliation when Ali-San makes her the servant in her father's mission. Finally, Jewel discards the American clothes she is made to wear and, dressed in her wedding robes, goes to her ancestors' tomb to commit harakiri. When Yasakuji climbs up Ali-San's balcony, and she sees his face in her mirror, she accidentally falls off the balcony to her death. Released from Ali-San's spell, Marashida takes Jewel's dagger from her, and they live happily again.—Pamela Short
- A Japanese artist, a hunchback, with a gentle soul, weds the daughter of his friend. He and Jewel are happy till the niece of an American missionary, a vampire-like sculptress, who looks on the Japs as soulless heathens, persuades the Jap artist to pose for her because he is so grotesque and crooked. He does so, assuming exaggerated attitudes, and in the end his infatuation leads him to give the woman his wife. Jewel, as a servant.' She becomes the maid of all work in the missionary's home. Her own and her father's entreaties fail to persuade the artist to take her back. Her father declares to the artist that he has lost his soul to the Fox Woman (the Jap name for a vampire) and suggests that he commit suicide according to the custom of the Japanese. The artist, infuriated, attacks the old man, but restrains himself in time to prevent serious harm. Jewel, throwing aside the American clothes that have been forced on her, dresses herself in her wedding robes and goes to the shrine of her ancestors where she kneels in prayer, preparatory to killing herself. Meanwhile her father shines up a pole and enters the bedroom of the Fox Woman. Surprised and frightened, the Fox Woman backs out another window and falls to the ground, mortally injured. When her soul leaves her, that soul she had absorbed, the artist's, returns to him, and. horrified at the memory of all he has done, he rushes out in search of his wife. He is in time to save little Jewel's life and they live happily ever after.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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