So here is the first piece of info about Toei Movie Land.
Summer is in full swing in Japan as well, and summer is the season for "scary monsters and haunted house" over there - not, ehh, Halloween. So Toei Movie Land is holding the seasonal Yokai Festival ("Yokai Matsuri") from July 19 till August 31. The main focus of the event series is "World Yokai Conference" held on August 23 and 24.
"Yokai" is the folk monster, depicted in various folk tales, and there are so many of them. There is a good site to explain and introduce about yokais in English, Obakemono. This rich tradition of monsters is the base of people's imagination that created Japan horror films and monster films. Most recently, Takashi Miike's "The Great Yokai War", I believe, is the great showcase for the scary+friendly+comical folk monsters. (Personally, I fell in love with Miike films with this movie, and am trying to catch all his stuff as much as possible since.) Shigeru Mizuki's "Gegege no Kitaro" is the most popular yokai character comic (manga) in Japan. Mizuki is appearing in The World Yokai Conference in August, and "Kitaro" has been filmized there, but I have not seen it yet.
More detailed information will follow - stay tuned!
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I am from Suriname and now study English, tell me right I wrote the following sentence: "Conditions may visually die line carnivores and the west nile fashion."
:D Thanks in advance. Lawrencia.
Posted by: Lawrencia | September 03, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Kinda liked this film, we're Miike fans too.
Posted by: 1minutefilmreview | July 29, 2008 at 09:47 AM