Rotten
This noisy, effects-crazed PG-13 adventure might work for 10 year-olds who are beyond Nickelodeon piffle and ready for Japanese splatter.
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times
The Great Yokai War
2005 · 2h 4m · PG-13
Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Directed by
Takashi Miike
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Takashi Miike Director
- Ryunosuke Kamiki as Tadashi Ino
- Hiroyuki Miyasako as Sata
- Chiaki Kuriyama as Agi
- Bunta Sugawara as Shuntaro Ino
- Kaho Minami as Youko Ino
- Riko Narumi as Tataru Ino
- Etsushi Toyokawa as Lord Kato Yasunori
- Kiyoshiro Imawano as General Nurarihyon
- Seiko Iwaido as Kawahime, the River Princess
- Masaomi Kondo as Shojo, the Kirin Herald
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
71%
Tomatometer
Fresh
With its scenes of mass destruction in Tokyo and its climactic mushroom cloud, the movie owes a psychic debt to the atomic-monster movies of the 50s and 60s, but its overriding tone is one of endless, giddy invention.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
... Miike's epic undertaking is probably best appreciated as the first stab at a live-action version of a Hayao Miyazaki ecologically minded extravaganza like Princess Mononoke.
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Fresh
Takashi Miike's excursion into extravagant and demented fantasy combines folkloric elements with images from contemporary Japanese popular culture.
A.O. Scott, New York Times
Rotten
The film makes no more or less sense than Ridley Scott's Legend or Jim Henson's Labyrinth, and in fact has a creaky, blue-gel '80s-ness to it, but for many, keeping up with Miike's cranked output is an end in itself.
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
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