Obake Family Day - 2018

Obake Family Day
Sunday, October 28, 11 AM – 4 PM
EXPLORE JAPAN’S GHOST WORLD THIS HALLOWEEN! Party with kooky yokai and shapeshifting obake creatures in this family-friendly spook-fest! Kids of all ages can come in costume and enjoy the thrills and chills of Halloween and the delights of fall festival — Japan-style! — with a kid-friendly haunted house, spooky animated short films and a live scary sound effects performance, ghost stories, mask-making, creepy candy sculptures, fall festival games and more!
Advance Tickets:
Adults $15/$13 members; kids (ages 3-12) $10/$8 members
Free for Cool Culture Members; Free for kids 2 and under
Day-Of Tickets:
Adults $18/$15 members; kids (ages 3-12) $13/$10 members
Free for Cool Culture Members; Free for kids 2 and under
Appropriate for ages 3 and up but some activities are scary.
There will be performances at 12:30 PM, 1:30 PM, and 2:30 PM. Please pre-select your performance time with your ticket purchase.
Live Foley Performance with Goro Koyama + Spooky Animated Short Films
Three performances: 12:30 PM, 1:30 PM & 2:30 PM
Please pre-select your performance time with your ticket purchase.
What gives scary movies their creep factor? It’s Foley sound effects artists who make doors squeak, monsters chomp, and thunderstorms boom and crackle. This special event features Oscar-nominated animated films with a live sound effects performance by a Foley artist right in the theater. Goro Koyama, an internationally recognized Foley artist for movies such as Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Vikings (TV series), will teach you the art of making spooky sounds using everyday objects! For children of all ages with parental supervision.
Japanese Haunted House (Obake no Yashiki)
Children enter a classic Japanese Haunted House to discover some of Japan’s most famous ghosts and goblins — a ghost (yurei) in the graveyard, the long neck woman (rokurokubi) and a one-eyed boy (hitotsume kozo) who scares children by making his enormous eye glow and sticking out his long tongue! For children ages 4+, requires parental supervision.
Festival Games
Enjoy fun Japanese festival games at yatai vendor booths such as wanage (ring toss) superball scooping, shateki (rubber band flinging) and senbonbiki (pull a string to get a mystery gift) and win prizes! For children of all ages with parental supervision.
100 Scary Stories
Join a storyteller in the Kaidan Hyaku-Monogatari (“100 Ghost Stories”) tradition. As each tale is told, candles are extinguished one by one to create an eerie atmosphere where an obake might just appear. For children ages 3+ with parental supervision as some stories might be scary.
3D Trick Art
Create the ultimate selfie with our Halloween-themed 3D Trick Art photobooth! A popular phenomenon in Japan, trick art is large-scale works of art that seemingly add a third dimension, which the audience can enter and interact with. For children of all ages with parental supervision.
Candy Sculptures
Candy 5, a trained amezaiku artist, will entertain and mesmerize audiences by creating amazing ghost and goblin-shaped candy for children! Amezaiku is a traditional Japanese candy craft in which an artist shapes multi-colored taffy into incredible, edible sculptures. For children of all ages with parental supervision.
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