Yokai’s return
Miike’s new flick: Yokai Taisenso is about monsters. Not regular monsters: the Yokai monsters. ! The yokai monsters were the heroes of a popular serie of movies at the end of the sixties. It was a back to the roots move at that time. To compete with western monsters movies(Hammer-like ones), Daei created a line of monsters inspired by old folk stories. Those monsters were great and the movies are forever cult classics.
The Yokais were similar to certain kaijus who are terribly frightening but are in fact defending Japan against a bigger threat. You have to realize that the designs of the monsters were out of this world. The star of the cast was a living umbrella with a giant tongue and a human leg. Yes, a living umbrella with a giant tongue that’s the kind of monster the yokais were. Other memorable ones were the woman with the super long neck or the kid with two faces. You see one of the particularity of the Yokai serie is that there are 100 monsters. It’s the japanese monster army getting together to beat the shit outta foreigners or vile buisnessmen (yes i’m looking at you Horiemon). A hundred crazy looking japanese monsters in a single movie. That’s how wonderful those movies were.
Now Miike’s remake has to live up to those movies and it’s going to be hard but since, he’s Miike he won’t give a shit and might do something interesting. Anyway here’s the official site and the trailer.
And what the hell, here’s the imdb links to the old youkai movies :
Yokai hyaku monogatari
Yokai Daisenso
Tokaido abaketo chu
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