Yokai by Gojin Ishihara
The ever-wondrous Pink Tentacle is waving around creepy children’s book illustrations by Gojin Ishihara. They’re like the little lure on an angler fish and I’m totally going for it.
Exhorting Japan!
1930s Japan gets with the Social Realist program with exhortational posters!
Alien vs. Ninja
400 years ago ninjas fought an alien, or possibly aliens. Alien vs. Ninja.
Nightmare Detective II
We could say something clever about “what things dreams are made of,” but Nightmare Detective just doesn’t lend itself to the cute. It looks like Nightmare Detective II doesn’t either.
RIP, Kazuo Ohno
Kazuo Ohno has died at 103. He was a great performer of Butoh, a Japanese dance drama form, and even if dance is not your thing, Japanese horror movies and possibly contemporary supernatural horror wouldn’t be the same without him.
Yokai, Dissected.
In the interest of Science: gallery of anatomical drawings of yokai, Japanese folk monsters. Hopefully, no actual yokai were harmed in making these drawings.
The Cultural Gutter 