The Great Yokai War (2005)
Directed by Takashi Miike
A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great war of yōkai (a class of mythological creatures), where he meets a group of friendly yōkai who become his companions through his journey. Now he must fight to protect his friends and free the world of the yōkai from oppression.
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And even a children’s fantasy, “The Great Yokai War.”
This accounts for the frequent neglect of the spiritual aspects of his work (for example, the intimations of Buddhist hell in Dead or Alive), or of films in different keys (such as 2002’s Shangri-La, a sweet outsider tale of casualties of capitalism that’s a straightforward example of upbeat humanism; or 2005’s wonderful remake The Great Yokai War, a child-friendly fantasy and one of the great widescreen films of the last decade).