# What is this Japanese horror movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 7, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-japanese-horror-movie/995747 "2024-01-07T21:56:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-japanese-horror-movie/995747/1 "2024-01-07T21:56:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-japanese-horror-movie/995747/2 "2024-01-08T01:21:24Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/NYSKHQLEvOY/maxresdefault.jpg "100 MONSTER (1968) karakasa and man (HDp720)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYSKHQLEvOY) [https://en](https://en)…wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasa-obake > **[Noppera-bō](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noppera-b%C5%8D)** > > 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... > **[\[Film Review\] Yokai Monsters Trilogy (1968 - 1969) — Ghouls Magazine](https://www.ghoulsmagazine.com/articles/yokai-monsters-trilogy-1968-1969-film-review)** > > 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... ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-japanese-horror-movie/995747/3 "2024-01-08T01:23:11Z")
Can’t edit to fix the bad link: > **[Kasa-obake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasa-obake)** > > 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... ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-japanese-horror-movie/995747/4 "2024-01-08T01:28:08Z")
Thank you!! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-japanese-horror-movie/995747/5 "2024-01-08T01:33:49Z")
All three of the trilogy are on [archive.org](http://archive.org). The 2005 remake by Takashi Miike is good. > **[The Great Yokai War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Yokai_War)** > > 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... [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/a-h6_7VfQ34/maxresdefault.jpg "The Great Yokai War (2005) 妖怪大戦争 - Movie Trailer - Far East Films") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-h6_7VfQ34) The 2021 sequel to that is not. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/c7h9La0NSmU/hqdefault.jpg "THE GREAT YOKAI WAR -GUARDIANS- Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7h9La0NSmU) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-japanese-horror-movie/995747/6 "2024-01-08T01:41:12Z")
I now have 4 movies to add to my “must see” list. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-japanese-horror-movie/995747/7 "2024-01-08T01:46:17Z")
Did they have the whole movie on the Roku channel or just a clip? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-japanese-horror-movie/995747/8 "2024-01-08T01:52:54Z")
The whole movie.