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Elesin Oba, The King's Horseman is a 2022 Yoruba-language Nigerian historical drama film directed by Biyi Bandele and distributed by Netflix, based on Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman, a stage play he wrote while in Cambridge, where he was a fellow student at Churchill College during his political exile from Nigeria, [1] and it is based on a real incident that took place in ...
The 1974 blaxploitation film Abby features Eshu, but mostly as a deranged and ruthless sex deity that possesses a young woman and causes her to sexually assault and brutally murder various men in the process. Eshu appears as the main antagonist of the film Scooby-Doo! Ghastly Goals.
Pages in category "Yoruba-language films" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total. ... 0–9. 13 Letters (film) A. Adire (film) Agogo Eewo;
The film was a financial success, considering its modest budget at the time. It grossed $4 million in a month, but was pulled from theaters after the film's distributor, American International Pictures, was accused of copyright violation by Warner Bros., which saw the film as being derivative of The Exorcist and filed a lawsuit against AIP. [2]
Eshu was seen as the most powerful god who emanated all the other gods in some Orisha traditions. [9] Eshu created, merged with, and exists in the spiritual cosmology where the gods Ogun, Shango, Shakpana, Ọya, Oshun, and Yemọja (and other gods on her level) exist, being as respectively powerful compared to each other in the order of the ...
Agogo Eewo (English: Taboo Gong) is a 2002 Yoruba-language film and sequel to the 1999 film Saworoide. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was written by Akunwunmi Isola , and produced and directed by Tunde Kelani . It stars Dejumo Lewis , Deola Faleye, Lere Paimo and Larinde Akinleye.
Thunderbolt: Magun was made with a DV calm and the budget for the film was about $50,000. [1] It was released on VHS. [4] It was listed as one of the 10 best selling Yoruba movies. [5] It screened at the Pan African Film Festival in Ouagadougou, Milan Italiano Film Festival and the African Film Festival in New York. [1]
The title of the series, iwájú, roughly translates to 'the future' in the Yoruba language (literally 'front-facing'). The series stars Simisola Gbadamosi, Dayo Okeniyi, Femi Branch, Siji Soetan, and Weruche Opia. Originally planning a series of shorts, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Kugali Media were developing the long-form series for ...