100 Yokai Stories

100 Yokai Stories (also known as Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters) is a 1968 daiei horror film,Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda.

## Plot

Ryemon Tajima, a wealthy merchant, embraces Buddhist temple guardian Buzen Mamoru Hotta and the power in the township, and forcibly breaks the row house where poor but enthusiastic people live to create an oka place and make a profit. It is. And, as a side show , we invite Mamoru Buzen and hold a meeting of 100 stories . This is to turn off one hundred lights one by one after each story of a hundred story ghost story, and it was said that a youkai would appear when the last light went out. Therefore, at the end of the hundred stories, it was always a manner to do the curse of haunting things.

However, Riemon did not curse even after the hundred story was over, and handed over the souvenir oval to the guests and immediately returned. The mystery appeared immediately. Customers who went to Quito

Placement moat threatened to eerie voice, he had been sucked all of the oval in the moat.

On the other hand, Mamoru Buzen and others are wary of the young Ronin who sneak into the Hyakumonogatari no Kai. I wonder if they are looking for their injustice. In addition, Tajimaya crushed the plea of ​​the residents who wanted to dismantle the Nagaya, killed Jinbei who came, started construction forcibly, and crushed the old company that was enshrined on the site of Nagaya. Immediately a strange thing occurs, a youkai appears, and Tajimaya's Shigesuke, who was in command, escapes to the store. Tajimaya Riemon goes to see the situation with Shigesuke, but a youkai appears again, and he is mad and stabbed with Shigesuke and died.

A large number of youkai appeared in front of Yuzen Morita. The gate of the mansion opens without sound. In fact, youkai came in without being visible to humans. Buzen Mamoru is surrounded by a flock of youkai, tossed around and loses his sanity. What entered there was an average young Ronin. To tell the truth, he was secretly searching for Masaki Buzen's injustice. The magistrate who returned to his sanity for a moment after seeing it cuts off his stomach. Monsters who Mitodoke it, while deviation fuss to delight the late-night town pandemonium do, disappeared along with the dawn.

## Cast

* Yasutaro Oki: Jun Fujimaki
* Ok : Miwa Takada
* Taikichi: Sei Hiraizumi
* Osen: Mikiko Tsubouchi
* Shinkichi: Rookie Shinichi
* Shozo Hayashiya : Shozo Hayashiya
* Tajimaya Riemon: Takashi Kanda
* Toyomae Hotta: Ryutaro Gomi
* Shigesuke: Yoshio Yoshida
* Fujibei: Koichi Mizuhara
* Follow: Yasuko Ogura
* Gohei: Jun Hamamura
* Ibaraki Bannai: Shozo Sugiyama
* Jinbei: Tatsuo Hanafuu
* Roninichi: Saburo Date
* Ronin 2: Ichiro Yamamoto
* Elderly town: Shozo Nanbu
* Old Monk: Shinobu Araki
* Owner: Kazue Tamaki
* Tora: Teruko Omi
* Daiko : Keiko Koyanagi
* Ronin's Wife: Ikuko Mohri

* Interviewee: Taketoshi Naito

## Staff

* Planning: Yamato Yahiro

Main story
* Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
* Assistant Director: Showa Ota
* Screenplay: Tetsuro Yoshida
* Photo: Yasukazu Takemura
* Music: Chumei Watanabe
* Art: Yoshinobu Nishioka , Shigeru Kato
* Recording: Masao Ohsumi
* Sound effect: Nobu Kurashima
* Edit: Kanji Suganuma
* Fighting: Eiichi Kusumoto
* Still: Teruo Oyamada

Special effects
* Special skill director: Yoshiyuki Kuroda
* Photo: Fujiro Morita
* Specter type: Masao Yagi , Extract Production
* Animation: P production

## Overview

Along with " Youkai Great War " and " Tokaido Haunted Road ", it is called "The Daikai Kyoto Youkai Trilogy " ( see Yokai series ).

" Gegege no Kitaro (1st film)" ( Toei Video , Fuji TV ), which began airing on TV from January of this year (1968 ), is causing a social phenomenon called "Yokai boom" among children. It was Among them, this work, which was released as a performance during the spring break together with " Gamera vs. Space Monsters Bairus " ( Director Noriaki Yuasa ) produced by Daiei Tokyo Film Studio, was very responsive to the children of the audience. Also, there is a lot of attention inside the company, and Daiei has decided to incorporate this new "Yo-Kaimono" into the winter vacation box office at the end of the same year , and to make it into a series for the next work " Yo-Kai Great War " (1968). The production of "two special effects movies" by film studios in Kyoto and Tokyo was a luxury entertainment style that Eiji Tsuburaya was unable to realize even Toho , who was in charge of special effects . It was born in the form of " Burgon " and " Great Demon "  .

The "Hyakumonogatari" featured in this work was popularized by Shozo Hayashiya , the first Rakugo storyteller in the Edo period (defined by the theater pamphlet when this work was released). It is a meeting. In the play, the first Hayashiya Shozo is played by the eighth Hayashiya Shozo (later known as Hayashike Hiroku). The story put it to the main shaft ghost story is a hard era drama of tailoring, new of Tajimaya Gil (played by're above entertainer, who was active at the time rookie Shinichi humorous line drawing animation) is playing with ghosts of the umbrella There is also a synthetic scene  with, and the drama is being slowed down.

## Premise

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.

## DVD

* On August 22, 1997, LD-BOX "Yokai Seal Box" , which was a set with " Youkai Great War " and " Tokaido Haunted Road ", was released by Amuse  .[1]Kimiyoshi Yasuda[2]Kimiyoshi YasudaKimiyoshi Yasuda
* Released on July 26, 2000 The DVD was released by Daiei Sales Tokuma Japan Communications  . Digital New Master  .
* It was recorded and released in the bi-weekly Daiei special effects movie DVD collection No. 17 (April 14, 2015) released by Deagostini Japan in 2015.

## Gallery

### Posters

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### Production

To Be Added

**Reboot series**
**The Yokai War** · *The Great Yokai War: Guardians*