Excellent presentation of the feature, without much in the way of extras. Just for the record, these two films that follow 100 monsters yokai hyaku monogatari are not sequels in the strict sense of the term these are thematically sequels, but there is no overall story arc. Translated and sourced from mizuki shigerus mujyara, japanese wikipedia, and kaii yokai densho database. Watch now for free featured browse more titles movies. Yokai hyaku monogatari 1968 yokai hyaku monogatari. Yokai resource from last year night parade of 100 monster movies. Yokai hyaku monogatari 1968 technical specifications. To learn much more about japanese ghosts, check out my book yurei. Plot when a corrupt magistrate conspires with an unscrupulous developer to evict residents of an apartment building and destroy their shrine. This film is not currently playing on mubi but 30 other great films are.
There, amidst a chorus of frogs and insects serenading the coming obon, the people would play hyakumonogatari kaidankai. In japanese w english subtitles a peaceful village in edo has now been disrupted by reimon tajimaya. The telling of the tales in a hyakumonogatari kaidankai formed the basis of the film, yokai monsters. I watched an englishsubtitled version that, judging from some of the idioms, seems to have been made several years after the original film was. Japanese yokai film genre in 1960s cinema, producing the yokai hyaku. Tajimaya is scheming to get rid of the shrines and tenement houses for he intends to turn the land into brothels. Yokai hyaku monogatari directed by a veteran of six zatoichi movies, this film is ably done and moves along at a good pace, all the monsters in it are based on japanese folklore and traditional art. One hundred yokai tales is a 1968 japanese fantasy horror film directed by kimiyoshi yasuda. Kaibyo arima goten, ghostcat of arima palace, 1953.
The specs of all three of advs yokai monsters titles are consistent. Kousetsu hyaku monogatari requiem from the darkness. T he same array of monsters return, with new monsters added, in yokai hyaku monogatari, or yokai monsters 2. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. Onikuma, a japanese demon bear from ehon hyaku monogatari, c. Yokai hyaku monogatari 1968 horror posters, japanese. Directed by a veteran of the zatoichi series and the excellent samuraihorrorkaiju film, daimajin, this film is ably done and moves along at a good pace. Looking for information on the anime kyougoku natsuhiko. The peasants of edo are honest and hard working, though poor. A crooked shrine magistrate and a greedy developer scheme to evict residents from an apartment building and demolish the adjoining shrine, forcing the townspeople into submission. The great yokai war, also known as ghosts on parade, is a 1968 japanese fantasy horror film.
It is the second in a trilogy of films produced in the late 1960s, all of which focus around traditional japanese monsters known as yokai yokai monsters. The best bits from the score of the 1st daiei yokai film, yokai hyaku monogatari, music by chumei watanabe. In 2002, fuji tv released the television program kaidan hyakumonogatari using the basis of the game hyakumonogatari kaidankai to tell classic japanese ghost stories. It is the first in a trilogy of films produced in the late 1960s, which focus around japanese monsters known collectively as yokai the films, produced by daiei film, all make extensive use of. Futakuchionna by takahara shunsen in ehon hyaku monogatari. Throughout most of japanese history, monkeys were a familiar animal seen in fields and villages, but with habitat lost through urbanization of modern japan, they are presently limited to mountainous regions. Rare and selected movies from all genres free download. Miike takashi, the japanese director of infamous films such as koroshiya. Imdbs dave karger and alicia malone discuss the historymaking documentary nominated at this years oscars that you wont want to miss.
The popularity of kaidan, although that has not always the name been associated with the genre, has had its ebbing and flowing over the centuries, but never entirely disappeared, vanishing only for a short time until a new generation rediscovers these classical. The plot isnt much as its a rather typical samurai and upper classes oppress the poor story. Kejoro is the living embodiment of the pretty from the back, ugly from the front phenomenon that almost everyone has encountered at least once in their life. See more ideas about japanese horror, horror and horror movies. Kaidan is a genre that has persisted in japan for as long as the known history of japanese literature. From the sashay of those hips and the long, cascading ravenblack hair, you know that you have found a rare beauty.
This menagerie of yokai includes haireating horrors, spawning dragongods, zombie whales, venomous rats, cannibal skeletons with slimemould brains, ancient hominans, perverse water imps, devils of straw and monsters of cloth. All of the menus have background music, and are anamorphic. I noticed both sequels to this series was up and not this masterpiece so here it is my halloween treat to you. Ending by chumei watanabe from yokai hyaku monogatari 1968 8. The hundred monsters is a very bizarre little japanese. Maser patrols incredible yokai resource from last year night parade of 100 monster movies zack davission. Japanese horror film starring irie takako 19111995 and. Yokai hyaku monogatari 100 monsters kimiyoshi yasuda 1968 japan. In the summertime of old japan, when the oppressive heat and humidity rendered daylight activity all but unbearable, people longed for the night and the scant relief brought by the setting sun. The great yokai war, also known as ghosts on parade, is a 1968 japanese fantasy horror film directed by kuroda yoshiyuki. Find out more with myanimelist, the worlds most active online anime and manga community and database. Ive been looking for an excuse to feature this poster for some time but since i still havent found one, here it is anyway.
One hundred yokai tales is a 1968 japanese fantasy horror film. Read on wikipedia edit history talk page print download pdf. We should celebrate the summer of love by watching a horror movie from 1968. The hundred monsters is a very bizarre little japanese film and the first part of a yokai monsters trilogy. Yokai hyaku monogatari aka 100 monsters 1968 last week i promised that id devote the next few weeks to some of my favorite films from. Spook warfare 1968 starring yoshihiko aoyama and hideki hanamura on dvd and bluray. Here, in the first of a fourvolume collection, is the beginning of a modern hyakumonogatari. Horror, fantasy, feudal japan, japan, kaiju, monsters, giant monsters, daikaiju. Publicity card from the 1968 film yokai hyakumonogatari. There are things man just cant measure or understand in. He holds a hyakumonogatari kaidankai ceremony during which various tales of.