Films like The Great Yokai War.
The Great Yokai War (2005) reads as Cosy, breathless, measured fantasy / family, surreal in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are The Great Yokai War’s neighbours — where are yours?
Pick the mood of the night and we pull a film that fits it, on the same twelve axes. Then everyone on the couch gets something to watch for.
Pick tonight’s film by mood →