YOK AI MONSTERS
It’ll be hard to beat last year’s SFX Christmas do.
★★★★☆
RELEASED OUT NOW!
►1968-2005 | 15 | Blu-ray Directors Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Yoshiyuki Kuroda, Takashi Miike
►Cast Loads of weird creatures
BLU-RAY DEBUT The latest box set of Daiei Film movies introduces the uninitiated to a fascinating aspect of Japanese culture, one credited with inspiring everything from Pokémon to Ninja Turtles.
Yokai are folkloric apparitions or monsters. They take many forms, some fearsome, some comical. There’s the Rokurokubi (a woman whose neck extends like a snake), the Kasa-obake (umbrella-ghost), and, er, a kind of cyclopian Honey Monster and... is that a walking potato, or a glans?!