Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (1968)

Review: Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (1968)

Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast: Jun Fujimaki, Jun Hamamura, Miwa Takada, Takashi Kanda, Keiko Koyanagi,

Jun Fujimaki
Jun Fujimaki
Jun Hamamura
Jun Hamamura
Miwa Takada
Miwa Takada
Takashi Kanda
Takashi Kanda
Keiko Koyanagi
Keiko Koyanagi

Plot: A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in back. But he makes the fatal mistake of hosting a 100 Ghost Stories ceremony without the closing cleansing ritual, opening the door for the Yokai Monsters to punish the wicked.

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Ghosts, Monsters and Swordplay

Ghosts, Monsters and Swordplay

Asian martial arts and fantasy movies can be exhilarating in their strangeness and invention, unbound by Western insistence on rational explanations. Arrow’s new box set Yokai Monsters Collection presents a world in which supernatural […]

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