
Rating: 7.5 stars
Seen 1 time
Seen on: 07/02/2006
Most recently watched by sleestakk
A young boy with a troubled home life becomes “chosen,” and he stumbles into the middle of a great war of yōkai (a class of mythological creatures), where he meets a group of friendly yōkai who become his companions through his journey. Now he must fight to protect his friends and free the world of the yōkai from oppression. The yōkai originate in Japanese folklore and range from the cute and silly to the disturbing.
Rated PG-13 | Length 124 minutes
Chiaki Kuriyama | Kanji Tsuda | Akira Emoto | Asumi Miwa | Ken'ichi Endô | Itsuji Itao | Toshiya Nagasawa | Renji Ishibashi | Mai Takahashi | Naoto Takenaka | Yu Tokui | Hiroyuki Miyasako | Toshie Negishi | Shirô Sano | Kiyoshiro Imawano | Etsushi Toyokawa | Riko Narumi | Kaho Minami | Sadao Abe | Yôji Tanaka | Bunta Sugawara | Rei Yoshii | Masaomi Kondo | Hiroshi Aramata | Ryunosuke Kamiki | Miyuki Miyabe | Mame Yamada | Hiromasa Taguchi | Takashi Okamura | Taru Honkonen | Natsuhiko Kyogoku | Shigeru Mizuki | Tôru Hotohara | Arimasa Osawa
Met up with Shannon at Facets for another Japanese screening: Takashi Miike’s latest, a family film! Of course with my love for Yokai I was already predisposed to like this film. The fact that Miike made it… well, that’s a bonus. Not a perfect movie by any means but very enjoyable.
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