The Great Yōkai War (2005 film)

The Great Yōkai War (妖怪大戦争, Yōkai Dai-Sensō), is a live-action film directed by Takashi Miike released on August 16th, 2005. It is the first official reboot of the Yōkai Monsters Series.
==About==
Shigeru Mizuki, Hiroshi Aramata, Natsuhiko Kyōgoku and Miyuki Miyabe served as creative consultants on the film, collectively credited as the "Kwai Producer Team". Many allusions are made to Mizuki's works, including the main character taking a trip to Shigeru Mizuki Road. Aramata also received a writing credit for the use of Yasunori Katō, the main character of his book series Teitō Monogatari, as the film's antagonist. Shigeru Mizuki also made the comic adaptation of the film.
It is a loose remake of the Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare (The Great Yōkai War) in 1968 although similarities or direct connections between the two are minor, though the Kasa-Bake makes reference to the first war when being asked to fight again. 
The Great Yōkai War: Guardians, which was also directed by Miike and written by Aramata, was released in August 2021.
===Production===
==Synopsis==
==Cast==
*Humans
**Tadashi Inō - Ryūnosuke Kamiki
**Sada - Hiroyuki Miyasako
**Yōko Inō - Kaho Minami
**Tataru Inai - Riko Narumi
**Kwai Chief Editor - Shirō Sano
**Miyabe-sensei - Miyuki Miyabe
**Reading Hobo - Arimasa Ōsawa
**Cop - Yū Tokui
**Takoyaki Commercial - Itsuji Itao
**Food Cart Man - Honkon
**Yōichi's Father - Yōji Tanaka
**Abe-no-Seimei - Toshiya Nagasawa
**Tadashi's Father, Adult Tadashi - Kanji Tsuda
**Cow Farmer - Akira Emoto
**Shuntarō Inō - Bunta Sugawara
*Yōkai
**Shōjō - Masaomi Kondō
**Kawatarō - Sadao Abe
**Kawa-hime - Mai Takahashi
**Azuki-Arai - Takashi Okamura
**Sunekosuri - Junko Takeuchi (voice), Mao Sasaki (Kikai Sunekosuri voice)
**Ippon-Datara - Hiromasa Taguchi
**Ōtengu - Kenichi Endō
**Sunakake-Babaa - Toshie Negishi
**Rokuro-Kubi - Asumi Miwa
**Yuki-Onna - Rei Yoshii
**Tofu-Kozō - Tōru Hotoharu
**Ōkubi - Renji Ishibashi
**Nurarihyon - Kiyoshirō Imawano
**Abura-Sumashi - Naoto Takenaka
**Mōryō - Tokitoshi Shioda
**Gozu - Tokitoshi Shioda
**Itsuki no Kaminari - NORIYASU
**Hino-Enma - Yasuko Aramata
**Yanagi-Baba - Etsuko Mura
**Kajiga-Baba - Yoriko Matsukubo
**Ubume - Kumiko Imai
**Bake-Neko - Minori Fujikura
**Kejōrō - Minori Fujikura
**Noderabō - Mame Yamada
**Amefuri-Kozō - Mitsuru Akaboshi
**Hyakume - Mitsuru Akaboshi
**Nando-Babaa - Hachirō Ika
**Ko-Oni - Mame Yamada, Hachirō Ika
**Nopperabō - Riko Narumi
**Nurikabe - Kōichi Funayama
**Sodehiki-Kozō - Kenta Tamahashi
**Mitsume-Kozō - Kenji Hirono
**Hitotsume-Kozō - Kenji Hirono
**Kodama - Hiroyuki Ōdake
**Karasu-Tengu - NC Akahide
**Kamikiri - Hiroyuki Ōdake, NC Akahide
**Buru-Buru - Miho Harita
**Te-no-Me - Nobuo Fujiyama
**Yama-Warawa - Hajime Shikata
**Namahage - Yūji Takatsuki
**Dorotabō - Eiji Morisaki
**Aobōzu - Makoto Arakawa
**Seto-Taishō - Yasuaki Sekita
**Otoroshi - Taishi Kobayashi
**Nuppeppo - Taishi Kobayashi
**Ubaga-Bi - Takeko Shimizu
**Tateyama-Gaeru - Katsuhiko Watanabe, Kiyoshi Hayashi, Miki Yamaguchi, Sensaku Sawada
**Oshiroi-Babaa - Noriko Konno
**Mujina - Naomichi Sakai
**Kuro-Kamikiri - Satoshi Shimada
**Futakuchi-Onna - Atsuko Shimizu
**Kabura-no-Otodo - Toshimitsu Nishikido
**Korpokkur - Yoshiyuki Kanō
**Kameosa - Takahiro Nagatani
**Red Oni - Norikazu Aida
**Blue Oni - Hidetsune Kajiyama
**Hōsōshi - Shigeo Kadowaki
**Mokugyo-Daruma - Kazunori Fukaya
**Hossumori - Makoto Tokizaki
**Hakuzōsu - Kazutaka Sanrin
**Inugami - Keisuke Mukai
**Jorō-Gumo - Yōko Mizuguchi
**Tesso - Kenzō Narita
**Yobuko - Yūma Tamura
**Tsuchi-Korobi - Naoki Asaji
**Kura-Bokko - Junji Sanechika
**Ohaguro-Bettari - Yuki Hasegawa
**Nozokibō - Pretty Nishimura
**Nuribotoke - Salmon Sakeyama
**Hone-Onna - Masumi Shinbori
**Mikari-Baba - Hisae Suzuki
**Tenjō-Name - Tetsuta Yoshida
**Mikoshi-Nyūdō - Hiroyuki Ishiga
**Kanamashira - Shōhei Uno
**Momon-Jii - Junya Inoue
**Woman in the Box - Karen Ōshima
**Sanmoto Gorōzaemon - Hiroshi Aramata
**Shin-no-Akugorō - Natsuhiko Kyōgoku
**Yōkai Grand Elder - Shigeru Mizuki
*Evil Army
**Agi - Chiaki Kuriyama
**Yasunori Katō - Etsuji Toyokawa
**Yomotsu-Mono
**Kikai
==Other Yōkai in the Film==
*Kirin-Jishi
*Ittan-Momen
*Kasa-Bake
*Takurō-Bi
*Kudan
*Wanyūdō
*Ungaikyō
*Tokkuri-Korogashi
*Mokumokuren
*Bake-Chōchin
*Sentaku-Gitsune
*Bake-Danuki
*Tetsudai-Oni
*Shōmenki
*Shibaten
*Zashiki-Don
*Jicho
*Hige-Bayashi
*Masame-Zaru
*Kansu-no-Okina
*Fundōki
*Aka-Garasu
*Kaki-Otoko
*Iyaya
*Taue-Bō
*Nokuchibiru
*Tetsubin-Kajiri
*Kajika-Jijii
*Ryū-Damashi
*Ryuu-Modoki
*Okinbō
*Abura-Shibori
*Atama-Yama
*Tono-Kappa
*Oni-Dōji
*Karasu-Bō
*Suijin-Don
*Akubōzu
*Urushi-Tsubo
*Orabi-Dako
*Ojīmajimun
*Mehitotsu-Gorō
*Okeosa
*Daimanagu
*Koppa-Tengu
*Tsuntarō
*Mehitotsubō
*Ikkakudon
*Namekujira
*Ōinoko
*Nunogarami
*Kanaude
*Sarutenbanko
*Kumo-Oyaji
*Neko-Shō
*Kamanari
*Ryu-Modoki
*Okepokkun
*Bake-Sumitsubo
*Namera
*Warai-Jishi
*Ōte-sama
*Warai-Kuchi
*Ao-Tengu
*Iwabukure
*Akagami
*Oni-Musume
*Kawan-Tarō
*Furu-Dansu
*Sanjin
*Jūnibō
*Mitsume-Gumo
*Yanari
*Makizappō
*Kani-Bō
*Neneko
*Suitenbō
*Igusa-no-Kesabō
*Kusenbō
*Oppe-no-Heishirō
*Tōsuname
*Shidaidaka
*Nishakubō
*Yumemakura
*Yōka-Zō
*Mintsuchi
*Tsuchi-Tengu
*Nuribō
*Benitōrō
*Iso-Tengu
*Kobu-Jii
*Kago-Otoko
*Shōten-Modoki
*Sankakudon
*Mokuren no Sei
*Gafū
*Shitagaragonboko
*Onbo-no-Yasu
*Shime-Oni
*Tsubo-Gashira
*Pīshāyanamun
*Suiten-Ō 
*Yama-Inu
*Koma-Ō
*Yamida no Rei
*Sodekiri
*Nokinattō
*Gasei
*Zaru-no-Me
*Jūkanbō
*Tsurube-Bi
*Sai-no-Ichirokudon
==Staff==
==DVD==
==Awards==
==Novelization==
Category:Live-action
Category:Yōkai Monsters Series