Wakai

Lady Wakai was the villain of Michael Brookhaven's 1999 film Mujun: The Ghost Kingdom.

In the story, she first appeared at the Court of the Shogun-King Senso, where she had seduced one of the King's sons as part of a centuries-long plot to put herself and her children on the throne. She planned to gain the dying King's ear with warnings about the attacks of the witches, then overthrow and devour the noble houses. She had killed her sister, who had been the most renowned and benevolent sorceress ever known in Shogunate society.

Wakai gathered a horde of hundreds of bestial and vampiric "witches" in the forests outside the small, peaceful village of Chikyu. In a scene shown to the audience but not the other characters, Wakai appeared before the horde dressed in a butterfly-robe of silk, her face hidden behind a white porcelain mask. In this rose, she was the symbolic mother of all monsters.

Baron Amatsumara and Wakai's warrior niece Awaremi defended Chikyu and defeated the witches, so Wakai sent a goblin-horde to attack Amatsumara's homeland, the Ghost Kingdom. After the kingdom had fallen to the goblins, Wakai removed her porcelain mask, revealing a diseased, agonised, and vampiric face; she then consumed the Kingdom. The only survivors were Kodomo Kami, Kithijoten, and Baron Nichiyobi.

At one point, Wakai insisted that her prisoners "have their legs broken and [be] impaled on spikes", which was cut for threatening the film's PG rating. (PROSE: The Book of the War)