The Great Yokai War
Due to my forgetfullness, I’ve already managed to miss a few movies in this years New York Asian Film Festival. One that showed on the 17th was Takashi Miike’s take on a kid’s movie: The Great Yokai War. Now if you know anything about Takashi Miike, you know that his movies never, ever, can be summed up by their gengre. The description from the NYAFF site gives you an idea:
Takashi Miike has made dating movies about torture, shown a man slicing out his own tongue, covered his cast in showers of breast milk, and treated chihuahuas very, very badly. The last thing anyone expected from him was a kids’ movie, but with THE GREAT YOKAI WAR he gives us a LORD OF THE RINGS-sized epic kiddie flick that blows the competition out of the water and returns him to the front ranks of Japanese directors.
Anyway, there’s still one more show this Sunday. I hope I don’t forget to buy tickets or revisit some of his older movies like Ichi the Killer, The Happiness of the Katakuris (seen at the NYAFF a few years ago), Gozu, Izo and The Audition (which I own on DVD as the Unrated Special Edition, but can’t bring myself to endure again).
