Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters | reviewed by: William O'Donnell | November 10, 2021
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The promise of monsters comes early & it shows great restraint in delivering. But when it does, oh boy is it a rich combo of camp and creepy
| genre | foreign | Horror |
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| synopsis | 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. |
| lead actors | Jun Fujimaki | Jun Hamamura | Miwa Takada | Takashi Kanda | Keiko Koyanagi | Tatsuo Hananuno | Shozo Hayashiya | Masaru Hiraizumi | Shinobu Araki | Ryûtarô Gomi | Hajime Koshikawa | Ikuko Môri | Kôichirô Ogura | Teruko Oumi | Rookie Shin-ichi | Shôsaku Sugiyama | Ikkei Tamaki | Mikiko Tsubouchi | Kazuo Yamamoto | Yoshio Yoshida | Shōzō Nanbu | Saburo Date |
| director | Kimiyoshi Yasuda |