From Japan, where they may not have Halloween, but they probably don't need it.
Images from the 1968-69 Daiei Studios series of films about the yokai, which might loosely be translated as monsters or goblins. The appeal of the films being that, like Clive Barker's misbegotten but somewhat fondly remembered Nightbreed, there are more monsters on display than you can shake a stick at, and for once the monsters are actually the good guys.
Well, in two of the films, Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters and Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts, the critters are heroes, protecting sympathetic humans from the depredations of villainous ones. In Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare, the Japanese demons do battle with an imported Babylonian vampire beast who has used sorcery to take the place of a local magistrate. Although allowing even more screen time for the monsters, this patriotic approach to the genre is actually a little...
Images from the 1968-69 Daiei Studios series of films about the yokai, which might loosely be translated as monsters or goblins. The appeal of the films being that, like Clive Barker's misbegotten but somewhat fondly remembered Nightbreed, there are more monsters on display than you can shake a stick at, and for once the monsters are actually the good guys.
Well, in two of the films, Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters and Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts, the critters are heroes, protecting sympathetic humans from the depredations of villainous ones. In Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare, the Japanese demons do battle with an imported Babylonian vampire beast who has used sorcery to take the place of a local magistrate. Although allowing even more screen time for the monsters, this patriotic approach to the genre is actually a little...
- 10/31/2013
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
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