I just finished watching this on the Roku channel American Horrors . It is a Japanese period piece with drawings of one-eyed, one-legged, long tongued tree shaped creatures that come to life and hop around, and a gang of villagers that become faceless zombie creatures.
https://en …wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasa-obake
The noppera-bō (のっぺらぼう), or faceless ghost, is a Japanese yōkai that looks like a human but has no face. They are sometimes mistakenly referred to as a mujina, an old Japanese word for a badger or raccoon dog. Although the mujina can assume the form of the other, noppera-bō are usually disguised as humans. Such creatures were thought to sometimes transform themselves into noppera-bō in order to frighten humans. Lafcadio Hearn used the animals' name as the title of his story about faceless mons No...
To talk about the Yōkai Monsters trilogy, now available on Shudder after a great Arrow box set release last year, it’s necessary to give an idea of what yōkai actually are. However, it’s a little difficult to say as most definitions fall short in...
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Kasa-obake (Japanese: 傘おばけ) are a mythical ghost or yōkai in Japanese folklore. They are sometimes, but not always, considered a tsukumogami that old umbrellas turn into. They are also called "karakasa-obake" (から傘おばけ), "kasa-bake" (傘化け), and "karakasa kozō" (唐傘小僧).
They are generally umbrellas with one eye and jump around with one leg, but sometimes they have two arms or two eyes among other features, and they also sometimes are depicted to have a long tongue. Sometimes, but rarely, they even ha...
All three of the trilogy are on archive.org .
The 2005 remake by Takashi Miike is good.
The Great Yokai War (Japanese: 妖怪大戦争, Hepburn: Yōkai Daisensō) is a 2005 Japanese fantasy film directed by Takashi Miike, produced by Kadokawa Pictures and distributed by Shochiku. The film stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Chiaki Kuriyama, and Mai Takahashi.
The film focuses largely on creatures from Japanese mythology known as yōkai (妖怪, variously translated as "apparition", "goblin", "ghoul", "spirit", or "monster"), which came to prominence during the Edo period with the works of To...
The 2021 sequel to that is not.
I now have 4 movies to add to my “must see” list.
Did they have the whole movie on the Roku channel or just a clip?
