Monster of the Day #3167

Updated on February 12, 2021 By Ken Begg 23 Comments

Happy Friday! Now I have to do two years of work organizing my insane piles of crap to barely make enough space to let people use the two bedrooms I don’t use (except for heaped storage). Fun. Speaking of, with guests arriving for a get together next week, I’m not sure what my schedule will be. So if I miss a day to two, that’s way.

Looking at my book of Japanese horror movie posters, I’ll say they REALLY like bare boobs (there’s a little of that here, but it’s mostly covered and in the background) and sexual imagery in their movie posters. Maybe more than the Italians, which is saying something. So digging up subjects took a tad more work than I anticipated.

Have a terrific weekend, everyone!

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  • Gamera977

    Could you insert a symbol of Jabootu over the naughty bits on the more racy posters?

    Is there anywhere I can find a lot of films like this? I haven’t checked YouTube yet so I’ll give that a shot. But otherwise Amazon Prime and Asian Crush though featuring a lot of Asian cinema it’s mostly newer films with most of the older stuff being martial arts movies.

  • Gamera977

    BTW in my thirst for classic SF I started watching ‘Space 1999’ on Amazon Prime. Which I’ve found interesting if a bit dry. Until the episode ‘Death’s Other Domain’ which deals with the Uranus Probe. !?!
    Yes, they pronounce it repeatedly as Your Anus. I swear you haven’t lived until you hear Brian Blessed over and over say Your Anus Probe.
    WTH were they thinking- I’d have told the actors to say U Ran Us and called it an expedition or mission or anything else. But we’ll always have Blessed with his amazing voice – YOUR ANUS PROBE…

  • Ken_Begg

    Well, the three Toho Dracula movies were on Amazon Prime. I haven’t checked recently. If you don’t mind buying some of these, the Japanese Samurai DVD site sells a lot of them, for about $12 or $13 a throw. I haven’t bought their wares, though, so I can’t say what the quality is like. They generally say the movies are remastered and in the proper aspect ratio, anyway.

  • Ken_Begg

    Well, I’m heard Brian Blessed say that a lot. Never on TV, though.

  • thunderclancat

    “May I take your coat sir? Yes, we have a slight problem with demons and vampires, called Terminex though, they said they’d be by tomorrow with some holy water.” -Woman with candelabra

  • Beckoning Chasm

    “Dragon’s Domain” was the episode that scared the hell out of me.

  • All three Draculas are still on Prime.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Say, Ken, I seem to recall you saying you liked manga. If you like a sweet and innocent one set in high school with a kitsune as a main character, you may enjoy ‘Tamamo-chan’s a Fox’. Basic idea: bored kitsune shrine guardian at the great Kyoto temple of Inari transforms so she can attend high school, doesn’t get that the kids can see what she really is, lunacy ensues. It’s nothing deep. This is no Berserk or even One Punch Man, but it’s funny. I’d say that most kids could enjoy it without any problems, though the humor has enough of an edge that adults won’t find it a waste.

    Just thought I’d give you a recommend after all the years of you sharing your knowledge of entertaining films here on the site.

  • zombiewhacker

    Definitely a candidate for MOTD.

  • Gamera977

    Thanks guys. I have the three Dracula movies on DVD. And I just went and picked up a few films from the Japanese Samurai DVD website including ‘Ghost Cat Mansion’.

  • Gamera977

    I can see what you mean BC, if I’d watched it back as a kid the tentacle beastie would have scared the hell outta me.
    Even today the weird howling sound freaked me out.

  • Ken_Begg

    Eric: Thanks! Actually, I haven’t read any manga yet. I’m buying the light novels for Overlord as they are translated, and have the first novel for Bofuri ordered now that it’s finally going to be in English. (I kind of want to get a better idea of how the game works/doesn’t work.) And one reason I love anime is the amount of pleasant stuff out there, so Tamamo-Chan sounds right up my alley. I’ll put it on my Amazon list.

  • Ken_Begg

    Sweet! I think Sandy and I will be co-purchasing their array of Ghost Cat movies and binge them the next trip down there. Let us what the quality is like, please. I’ve seen Ghost Cat Mansion and it’s pretty good.

  • Gamera977

    Will do!

  • KeithB

    Why yes, it does seem drafty in here. Why do you ask?

  • Eric Hinkle

    It is amazing when I think that while it’s been literally years since I bought any American comics, collected or as individual issues, this past week I picked up first ‘Tamamo-chan’, then ‘Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts’, and have ordered a copy of ‘Ancient Magus Bride: Wizard Blue’. And I love all three.

  • Ken_Begg

    You are now part of a genuine trend, especially among the kiddies. Hard to believe they prefer manga to current era American comics, isn’t it? I saw my young niece years ago reading a manga, and watching how naturally she read from right to left was pretty weird. Man, I can’t wait until they get that Demon Slayer movie in theaters.

  • Ken_Begg

    Not quite drafty enough, if you get my meaning.

  • Hey now, I bought a Bass Reeves comic at Wal-Mart just last week. I mean it’s the first comic I’ve bought in decades, and certainly didn’t come from one of the big two, but BASS REEVES!

  • KeithB

    And I think I do.

  • Ken_Begg

    But…but…don’t you feel empowered by Captain Marvel?

    She’s the most powerful character in the Marvel universe, you know. Big, BIG selling point.

  • Carol Danvers was one of the dullest characters in the Marvel universe before she became the all-powerful Mary Sue. I really hope Wandavision is setting it up for Monica Rambeau (the *original* female Captain Marvel) to replace her. But they’ll probably just continue to screw the pooch by just letting her have her Photon identity instead.

  • Ken_Begg

    I suspect you’re right, because they have all the marketing money now behind the Danvers version. They must be freaking out now that the extremely and organically popular Chadwick Boseman has tragically passed, because while they can’t come out and say so, they clearly must know that pretty much nobody likes Brie Larson’s Danvers. It’s actually kind of interesting, in a clinical way (which because I’m emotionally divorce from pretty much all American entertainment product these days is easy to adopt) to see the MCU–including the TV arm–start making all the basic mistakes that it avoided for the first ten years. I’m not saying it’s going to be a gigantic failure, but I would be amazed if it reaches the heights of that first decade.