Japan Synopsis
妖怪百物語
“A fantastic world unlike anything you have ever seen!”
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.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Daiei Film
The 1967–1969 Japan Window
Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters holds position #31 of 68 Japan films in the 1967–1969 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 1960s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 1960s in Japan, 202 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters premiered alongside 20 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 20 other Japan films in 1968.
The 285th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
17 audience reviews — more than 30% of Japan films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 23th percentile among Japan films.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- yokai · 4
- warning · 1
- eviction · 1
- real estate deal · 1
- rokutokubi · 1
- greed · 12
- evil spirit · 9
- youkai · 8
- theft · 6
- monster · 91
- jidaigeki · 61
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #2,832 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (38th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.2 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Horror productions specifically: #86 of 391 (top 22%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Daiei Film |
| Runtime | 1h 20m |
| Release Date | March 20, 1968 |
| IMDb | tt0200301 |