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Diving into Miike Takashi’s fantasy world is mostly great fun, and in the case of “The Great Yōkai War”, you get catapulted straight back to the 1980-s, a decade marked by a handful of pictures that tackled kids’ imagination. Spielberg’s “E.T” was sweet and Hollywood-cheesy, Richard Donner’s “The Goonies” was the film even our parents approved of, and Jim Henson’s “Labyrinth” was the one film critics wanted us to forget about, which we never did. But we loved them all.
The reason for mentioning those particular film classics is that “The Great Yōkai War” has the retro feel both in terms of the costume design and make-up, and by its extensive use of the stop-motion animation. It also doesn’t care being labelled childish instead of being just a film for children, leaning completely on the fantastic world of the Japanese supernatural...
The reason for mentioning those particular film classics is that “The Great Yōkai War” has the retro feel both in terms of the costume design and make-up, and by its extensive use of the stop-motion animation. It also doesn’t care being labelled childish instead of being just a film for children, leaning completely on the fantastic world of the Japanese supernatural...
- 2/19/2020
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
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