| Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare | |
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| Directed by | Yoshiyuki Kuroda |
| Screenplay by | Tetsurō Yoshida |
| Based on | Folk tales of Momotarō,[1] and The Great Yokai War by Shigeru Mizuki[2] |
| Produced by | Yamato Yashiro |
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| Cinematography | Hiroshi Imai |
| Edited by | Toshio Taniguchi |
| Music by | Sei Ikeno |
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| Distributed by | Daiei |
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Running time | 79 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare (Japanese: 妖怪大戦争, Hepburn: Yōkai Daisensō, lit. 'The Great Yokai War')[a] is a 1968 Japanese fantasy horror film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda. It is the second[4] in a trilogy of films produced in the late 1960s, all of which focus around traditional Japanese monsters known as yōkai. (It was preceded by Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (1968), and was followed by Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (1969).)[5]
Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare, along with the other two films in the series, was produced by Daiei Film and makes extensive use of tokusatsu special effects, with the majority of the creatures being represented by actors in costumes or puppets. The film was made in Fujicolor and Daieiscope.[3]
In 2005, director Takashi Miike released The Great Yokai War, a modern retelling of the story which borrows many elements from Spook Warfare.
- ^ Papp 2009, p. 227.
- ^ Mizuki 1995.
- ^ a b Galbraith 1994, p. 304.
- ^ Papp 2009, p. 229.
- ^ John Berra, ed. (2012). Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2, Volume 2. University of Chicago Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-1841505510.
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