kaiju — settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:kaiju @settima@zirk.us Wed, 06 May 2026 10:25:21 +0200 大佛廻國 [Daibutsu kaikoku / The Great Buddha Arrival] (Yoshirō Edamasa, 1934) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gnqh <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 大佛廻國 [Daibutsu kaikoku / The Great Buddha Arrival] (Yoshirō Edamasa, 1934)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 22/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Daibutsu kaikoku (1934).jpg)/div div class="caption" Buddha takes a holiday. A gigantic Buddha statue rests his hand on a multi-story building in possibly Kyoto. In front and sprawling out are multiple small wooden establishments with people in kimono and several bicycles in front of them. A tram, the only thing that suggests the 20supth/sup century, can be seen almost off-screen. (via). DPs: Haruzo Ando & Harumi Machii./div div class="txt" Something tall   In this very early kaiju moving picture, Buddha returns and goes on a sightseeing trip through Japan.   the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #YoshirōEdamasa #HidemichiIshikawa #KazuyoKojima #TankaiSoganoya #HaruzoAndo #HarumiMachii #kaiju #tokusatsu #religion #Buddhism #Buddha #travelogue #Japan #1930s/div /section ]]>

大佛廻國 [Daibutsu kaikoku / The Great Buddha Arrival] (Yoshirō Edamasa, 1934)

Dec

22

Daibutsu kaikoku (1934)

Buddha takes a holiday. A gigantic Buddha statue rests his hand on a multi-story building in possibly Kyoto. In front and sprawling out are multiple small wooden establishments with people in kimono and several bicycles in front of them. A tram, the only thing that suggests the 20^th century, can be seen almost off-screen. (via). DPs: Haruzo Ando & Harumi Machii.

Something tall*

In this very early kaiju moving picture, Buddha returns and goes on a sightseeing trip through Japan.

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #YoshirōEdamasa #HidemichiIshikawa #KazuyoKojima #TankaiSoganoya #HaruzoAndo #HarumiMachii #kaiju #tokusatsu #religion #Buddhism #Buddha #travelogue #Japan #1930s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gnqh Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:15:00 +0100 妖怪百物語 [Yōkai hyakumonogatari / Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters] (Kimiyoshi Yasuda,... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-yh6p <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 妖怪百物語 [Yōkai hyakumonogatari / Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters] (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1968)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 4/div div class="X" /div div class="img" 妖怪百物語 (1968)/div div class="caption" One-hundred monsters! (via). DPs: Yasukazu Takemura & Shōzō Tanaka./div div class="txt" [A favourite] horror movie with more than one bad guy   A shrine must give way to a brothel, and a game of supernatural storytelling follows. At the end of the spooky tales, the landowner neglects to complete the all-important purification ceremony resulting in one-hundred yōkai – one for each story – coming out to haunt the rich man and his cronies.   the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for October is horror-themed as opposed to date-based, and is all about favourites. Expect non-horror and films I believe to be relevant instead. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #KimiyoshiYasuda #JunFujimaki #JunHamamura #MiwaTakada #TakashiKanda #KeikoKoyanagi #TaketoshiNaitō #ChumeiWatanabe #YasukazuTakemura #ShōzōTanaka #samurai #ghosts #monsters #horror #kaiju #yōkai #tokusatsu #Japan #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

妖怪百物語 [Yōkai hyakumonogatari / Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters] (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1968)

Oct

4

妖怪百物語 (1968)

One-hundred monsters! (via). DPs: Yasukazu Takemura & Shōzō Tanaka.

[A favourite] horror movie with more than one bad guy*

A shrine must give way to a brothel, and a game of supernatural storytelling follows. At the end of the spooky tales, the landowner neglects to complete the all-important purification ceremony resulting in one-hundred yōkai – one for each story – coming out to haunt the rich man and his cronies.

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for October is horror-themed as opposed to date-based, and is all about favourites. Expect non-horror and films I believe to be relevant instead.

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