2005 · fantasy · family · yokai
The Great Yokai War
Directed by Takashi Miike2h 4m2005
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.
Our read: The Great Yokai War (2005) reads as a cosy, breathless, surreal fantasy · family · yokai entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured fantasy / family, surreal in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- surreal
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