Yôkai daisensô

Watching The Great Yokai War really felt like going back to childhood. To that youthful time watching movies on a Saturday afternoon that were a little fanciful and that I, at 9 or 10, couldn't quite follow but still enjoyed.

The movie is utterly bizarre, as a young boy is chosen to battle against a great evil with the help of Yokai, which are fantastical folkloric Japanese creatures.

The story is fast paced, doesn't always make sense, is very weird, and is sometimes pretty violent and disturbing for a kid's movie.

It's hard for me to judge the visual quality of this movie because I found a low-rez version on youtube. All I can say for sure is the creatures themselves are tremendously entertaining.

I watched this movie because I'm ever in the search for something weird and not too dark from director Miike, who make The Happiness of the Katakuris but mainly makes movie that sound so dark I can't bring myself to watch them. Yokai War isn't as good as Katakuris, but it is entertaining.