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The Great Yokai War (Yôkai daisensô)

Director: Takeshi Miike

Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Chiaki Kuriyama, Bunta Sugawara

(Media Blasters, 2005) Rated: N/A

US theatrical release date: 30 June 2006 (Limited release)

[1 August 2006]

by Jesse Hicks

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The Great Yokai War is only ostensibly about war, displayed here as a failure of imagination.

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