the only reason i be give this a 9 be that the other kid actor who play tadashi tormentor be not up to the job . i presume they be just kid who happen to be the right age and handy and but they be not well coach and and their scene be a minor annoyance . i say not to judge this by u. s. standard because it full of ambiguity and the kind of equivocation that japanese culture readily embrace and and be not beholden to the black hat or white hat moral constraint u. s. kid film be routinely subject to . for example and there be a preciously funny moment when tadashi small band of yokai companion find themselves let down and abandon by the other yokai and and shojo the avuncular kirin herald do what many a stress out japanese adult would do . hint represent this would not happen in a disney film . this picture also have the best product placement for beer you will ever see in a kid movie . early on and there a moment where a school teacher smack a couple of bully on the head with her attendance book . there be a tv commercial in japan a couple year before this movie come out . it be a stop motion clay animation about a kid who depress and play guitar and sing the blue in his room . his mother yell at him from downstairs to shut up . then and someone give him a candy bar and he cheer up and sing a happy tune and but his mother come in and tell him to shut up again and give him a dope slap that leave a dent in his forehead . i mention this commercial and because it be consider funny and and i do not hear any objection to it while i be there . there be a lot more bloodshed and physical cruelty on screen in the great yokai war than one would find in a disney movie . a a parent and if this be a u. s. film and i would be up in arm about such thing and although not necessarily the moral lesson draw at the end of the picture and which and of course and be also not black and white . since it a japanese movie and i accept that those cultural norm allow for imagery that would not get past the standard and practice cop in a u. s. production . however and i would probably be a little uneasy take young kid to see it without give them some sort of pre show briefing and or or post show debrief about the violence and other off color stuff and or i would wait till theyre old to show it to them .