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.
The 1967–1969 Japan Window
68 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters sits at position #31.
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 1960s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 1960s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters premiered. 202 total titles in this decade from Japan.
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 |