Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (Japanese: 妖怪百物語, Hepburn: Yōkai Hyaku Monogatari, lit. One Hundred Yōkai Tales) is a 1968 Japanese fantasyhorror film directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda, with special effects by Yoshiyuki Kuroda. It is the first in a trilogy of films produced in the late 1960s, which focus around Japanese monsters known collectively as yōkai.
Notably darker in tone than its more famous sequel, Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters focuses much more on a traditional story than it does on its titular monsters.[1] While monsters do appear throughout the film, they are relegated to antagonistic roles, more akin to their appearances in traditional kaidan.
A rich landowner intends to tear down a local shrine and other houses to build a brothel. He holds a Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai ceremony during which various tales of yōkai are told, such as the tales of kasa-obake (an umbrella tsukumogami), and a long-necked rokurokubi. However, the landowner omits the purification ceremony at the end to ward off the evil spirit conjured up during the telling of tales, after which the landowner and his supporters are scared to death or driven mad by the angered spirits, who at the end of the movie are seen parading out of the town with barrels of sake .[2][3]
yokai, monsters, monsters, japanese, 妖怪百物語, hepburn, yōkai, hyaku, monogatari, hundred, yōkai, tales, 1968, japanese, fantasy, horror, film, directed, kimiyoshi, yasuda, with, special, effects, yoshiyuki, kuroda, first, trilogy, films, produced, late, 1960s, w. Yokai Monsters 100 Monsters Japanese 妖怪百物語 Hepburn Yōkai Hyaku Monogatari lit One Hundred Yōkai Tales is a 1968 Japanese fantasy horror film directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda with special effects by Yoshiyuki Kuroda It is the first in a trilogy of films produced in the late 1960s which focus around Japanese monsters known collectively as yōkai Yokai Monsters 100 MonstersTheatrical release posterDirected byKimiyoshi YasudaScreenplay byTetsurō YoshidaProduced byYamato YashiroStarringShinobu Araki Jun Fujimaki Ryutaro Gomi Shozo HayashiyaCinematographyYasukazu TakemuraEdited byKanji SuganumaMusic byMichiaki Watanabe as Chemei Watanabe ProductioncompanyDaiei FilmDistributed byDaiei International FilmsRelease date20 March 1968 1968 03 20 Running time80 minutesCountryJapanLanguageJapaneseThe films produced by Daiei Film all make extensive use of practical special effects known as tokusatsu They largely make use of actors in costumes and puppetry In some scenes there are even examples of traditional animation Notably darker in tone than its more famous sequel Yokai Monsters 100 Monsters focuses much more on a traditional story than it does on its titular monsters 1 While monsters do appear throughout the film they are relegated to antagonistic roles more akin to their appearances in traditional kaidan Contents 1 Plot 1 1 Production 2 Sequels 3 References 4 External linksPlot EditA rich landowner intends to tear down a local shrine and other houses to build a brothel He holds a Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai ceremony during which various tales of yōkai are told such as the tales of kasa obake an umbrella tsukumogami and a long necked rokurokubi However the landowner omits the purification ceremony at the end to ward off the evil spirit conjured up during the telling of tales after which the landowner and his supporters are scared to death or driven mad by the angered spirits who at the end of the movie are seen parading out of the town with barrels of sake 2 3 Production Edit Yoshinobu Nishioka Art direction 4 Sequels EditYokai Monsters 100 Monsters was followed by two sequels Yokai Monsters Spook Warfare released later that same year in 1968 and Yokai Monsters Along with Ghosts released in 1969 5 References Edit Papp Zilia 2009 Monsters at War The Great Yōkai Wars 1968 2005 Mechademia 4 War Time 229 230 doi 10 1353 mec 0 0073 JSTOR 41510938 S2CID 52229518 Jane Sarah 10 July 2017 Overlooked amp Underseen Yokai Monsters One Hundred Monsters 1968 Talk Film Society Yokai Monsters 100 Monsters Kinema Junpo Retrieved March 19 2020 妖怪百物語 kinenote Retrieved 26 November 2021 John Berra ed 2012 Directory of World Cinema Japan 2 Volume 2 University of Chicago Press p 177 ISBN 978 1841505510 External links EditYokai Monsters 100 Monsters at AllMovie Yokai Monsters 100 Monsters at IMDb Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Yokai Monsters 100 Monsters amp oldid 1110559179, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
