On the page for Takashi Miike's The Great Yokai War (Yôkai daisensô) on the website of international sales agent Horizon Entertainment Ltd., there's a downloadable teaser trailer with English subtitles, and a downloadable theatrical trailer with a voice-over in English, for the movie.
The principal cast of The Great Yokai War is as follows: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Hiroyuki Miyasako (on the left), Kaho Minami, Riko Narumi, Shirô Sano, Miyuki Miyabe, Arimasa Ôsawa, Yû Tokui, Itsuji Itao, Honkon (Takahiro Kurano), Yôji Tanaka, Toshiya Nagasawa, Kanji Tsuda, Akira Emoto, Bunta Sugawara, Masaomi Kondô, Sadawo Abe, Mai Takahashi, Hiromasa Taguchi, Ken'ichi Endô, Toshie Negishi, Asumi Miwa, Rei Yoshii, Tôru Hotohara, Renji Ishibashi, Kiyoshirô Imawano, Naoto Takenaka, Hiroshi Aramata, Natsuhiko Kyôgoku, Shigeru Mizuki, Takashi Okamura, Chiaki Kuriyama, and Etsushi Toyokawa.
Theatrical trailer (downloadable 9.1 MB WMV file)
Teaser trailer (downloadable 4.5 MB WMV file)
Horizon Entertainment: The Great Yokai War page
haha. miike doing a kids flick. love it.
Soon...Soon...! Looking forward to this one!
am i right in thinkin this has already come out in Japan? if so was it a hit or a miss?
Saw it opening weekend, it's been out in Tokyo for the lesser part of a month and, despite its larger-than-usual (for a Miike) release it is in most respects not a hit. Although, it most certainly got the publicity. Most younger kids were stoked to see it and my screening had at least half of its audience in school still.
There is a sequel in the works, probably Twitch has known for a lot longer than me. :)
My personal take: I like Miike and I was pleased to see a film of his in theatres, for once, and to see him put together an entertaining story, if a little bit of a safe one. There are momentary flashes of hideous awfulness that would make the film a lot less appropriate for American kids, but it's generally regarded as a family film here.
I would not watch it again. But I liked it.
I would not recommend it to Miike fans who know and care about his Ichi sort of films, but not his Sabus.
The marketing campaign is in every respect more impressive and thrilling than the film. Which does not make it a bad film. It's just that all the cool photo shoots, books, posters plush hamsters playing cards and broken swords you can buy are more fun.
Liked it a hell of ton more than the last three or four films he's done.
no word until now on the sequel being made - is miike directing again? or is it a 'one missed call' type of sequel?... links to news (in japanese or english) on this appreciated. thanks.
Thank you for the links. It was interesting to observe.
http://www.kaijushakedown.com/2005/09/the_great_yokai.html
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117928240?categoryid=31&cs;=1
found reviews.
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