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A samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son hatches a plot to kill his father for his fortune, the magical tanuki is determined to protect its rescuer.
Kaidan Honjo nanafushigi, Seven Mysteries, Ghost Story Of The Seven Wonders Of Honsho, Kaidan Honsho Nanafushigi, Ghost Story Of Seven Wonders At Honsho
This supernatural samurai-drama has far too much extramarital affair nonsense and not enough ghosts doing ghostly things. At least it's got plenty of revenge-by-way-of-swordfight action and also some cool-looking monsters.
It's been a hot minute since I have seen a female character in a Japanese movie with ohaguro.
The problem I have with all of these Japanese ghost stories is your ghosts, or your cat demons, or your raccoon dogs, whoever - they don't help you all that much until you're dead. So each of these ghost story movies are about an hour of following around a woman cheating on her husband or some creepy samurai scumbag who kills all the nice people in town, or both, until finally, at last, some ghosts show up and scare them to death. So while I absolutely love when the one eyed one legged bouncing umbrella ghost shows up to haunt people, and all the other various ghosts, inevitably I've spent spent far too long watching the bad guys winning. So,…
I had no idea going into this that it would feature the same Yokai Monsters seen in the 1960's trilogy and Miike's The Great Yokai War. The SAME monsters. Umbrella boy, long neck geisha, cute cyclops buddy. ALL THE MONSTER FRIENDS! What a frickin' treat. More Edo period revenge drama and samurai swordplay to fill up running time but the monsters (though I would have liked more of them) make it totally worth the venture.
Familiar faces of the Yokai world have cameos in this tale of spectral revenge against the evil samurai, eventually first there is plenty of time to lay out just how evil he truly is. This movie is a b-movie yokai film, the yokai are familiar faces to those who have seen other yokai films like Spook Warfare or watched GeGe no Kitaro. They are really well done for a 50s b-movie but because they are well done they don’t get a lot of screen time because that would be expensive. Falling back on the Tanuki is easy, she’s just an attractive woman with magical powers. This movie’s biggest problem is it is too short. A…
Pleasant and entertaining samuraidrama where an elderly lord saves a were-badger who helps to avenge his death when he is murdered. Yokai cameos (which must have been quite amusing for the people sitting beside me on the more than packed bus), a good cast and some nice cinematography makes this breezy entertainment.
Whiles it’s ghostly revenge plot ain’t all that groundbreaking, the opening and closing bits that feature classic yokai monsters make this short little jaunt worth seeking out.
I can wait that little umbrella boy hop around for the rest of my life.
The film starts off incredibly strong by showing of 5 or so different Yokai with pretty cool specifal effects for the creature designs. After the opening however the film focuses on only one of the ghosts and devolves in to your typical revenge kaidan story. It was still a entertaining film, but as with every story based on centuries old myths, you need to tell the story incredibly well to make the film not seem routine. This one just tells its story kind of averagely and is a let down after the opening (linked clip). It's no Nobuo Nakagawa but still kind of fun.
"Paese che vai, storia che trovi". Non era proprio così, ma nel Sol Levante questo è certamente vero per le kaidan, ovvero le storie popolari di fantasmi, ennesimo simbolo della cultura nipponica, che ogni anno attirano nelle leggendarie mete "infestate" migliaia di turisti affascinati dalla speranza di un fortuito incontro con lo yuurei di turno.
Tra le leggende più note vi sono senz'altro le storie delle sette meraviglie (o misteri) dell'Honjo - in cui il sette è un numero puramente formale, poiché di solito ne sono riferite nove -, risalenti al periodo Edo e tramandate per via orale fino ai giorni nostri. Come accaduto anche per le fiabe, vi sono state nei secoli diverse "raccolte", con assortimenti e versioni di…
