Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage

2025 [JAPANESE]

Action / Animation / Horror / Mystery

8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 688 688

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Director

Kiyotaka Suzuki Photo
Kiyotaka Suzuki

Top cast

Yûki Kaji Photo
Yûki Kaji as Saburomaru Tokita
Kira Buckland Photo
Kira Buckland as Matsu
Ryô Horikawa Photo
Ryô Horikawa as Fujimaki
Yôko Hikasa Photo
Yôko Hikasa as Fuki Tokita
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703.81 MB
1280*536
Japanese 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 16 min
Seeds 5
1.41 GB
1920*804
Japanese 5.1
NR
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1 hr 16 min
Seeds 21

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by NobodyCaresSean 8 / 10

Abortion? Again?

Reviewed by Shadowboy_25cm 6 / 10

Stylish, experimental murder mystery ghost story

This second part of the Mononoke ghost story murder mystery is a fever dream of expressionism within an evil deadly LSD trip inside the inner chambers of the traditional Japanese Ooku hierarchy flavored with some Nouvelle Vague from the early Jean-Luc Goddard era.Technically and stylistically this movie is not for the photosensitive aka epileptic viewer.Problematic: Too many protagonists with too much exposition and a lot of name droppings at the beginning of the movie that distract and irritate. When it comes to the investigation of the murder mystery within this haunted inner chambers plot, I as a viewer don't get invested into all the characters, their motivations and relationships. Mostly the characters stay one-dimensional and very distant. The plot is very high paced and dense, but it doesn't succeed to transport to me the drama, the suspense and the thrill. I as a viewer am just a spectator and get a lot of colourful scenes and some conspiracies and Ooku politics that don't grip.It's difficult to rate this movie fairly because it has its own vision and style and crafts a tense atmosphere inside the inner chambers of the Ooku but as a murder mystery, as a supernatural drama or as a political thriller it fails unfortunately.In the end you get some hypervisual, experimental murder mystery that you nearly forget the next day what it was about.A pity, but worth a watch, if you like to watch a very unusual Asian animation movie.
Reviewed by foundtheninja 7 / 10

The aesthetics and style are enough to make this worth watching: Kabuki theater structure and idioms, traditional woodblock print visuals, insane colors. That's true of any installment in this series and it holds up here.No spoilers, but I can see why there's a spike in 1-star reviews. Ashes of rage, indeed.That said, the story is engaging and the 5-act structure keeps it flowing briskly. Each character is an interesting blend of sympathetic and flawed. There's a light sprinkling of anime tropes that probably aren't necessary, but don't detract much either.
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