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Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters is a japonais film of genre Horror directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda with Jun Hamamura
Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (1968)
妖怪百物語, Yôkai hyaku monogatari
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Add to a movie listYokai Monsters: One Hundred Monsters (Japanese: 妖怪百物語 Hepburn Yōkai Hyaku Monogatari, lit. "One Hundred Yōkai Tales") is a Japanese horror/fantasy film directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda. It is the first in a trilogy of films produced in the late 1960s, which focus around Japanese monsters known collectively as Yōkai.
The series consists of three films, all released between the years 1968-1969:
Yokai Monsters: One Hundred Monsters (20 March 1968)
Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare (December 1968)
Yokai Monsters: Along With Ghosts (March 1969)
The films, produced by Daiei Motion Picture Company, all make extensive use of practical special effects known as tokusatsu. Rather than using stop motion, the films largely made use of actors in costumes and puppetry. In some scenes, there are even examples of traditional animation.
Notably darker in tone than its more famous sequel, Yokai Monsters: One Hundred Monsters focuses much more on a traditional story about Samurai than it does on its titular monsters. While the monsters do appear throughout the film, they are relegated to antagonistic spook roles, more akin to their appearances in traditional Kaidan.
Synopsis
Mr Tajimaya, homme d'affaires peu regardant, veut détruire une partie d'un village (qui est d'ailleurs un lieu sacré) pour à la place y construire un bordel, malgré le mécontentement des villageois. Il a hérité de cette terre en faisant jadis affaire avec Jinbei, ex-propriétaire du lieu, lui prêtant de l'argent afin d'acheter des médicaments pour sa femme malade. Jinbei, ne pouvant payer, avait mis en effet son terrain en gage. Profitant du passage d'un magistrat religieux (et corrompu) sans qui le lieu de pèlerinage n'aurait pu être détruit, Tajimaya organise une petite fête atypique: il invite un conteur pour qu'il raconte les "100 Histoires". La tradition veut qu'à chaque histoire, une bougie soit éteinte. Et qu'à la fin de la dernière histoire, tous les convives participent à un rituel pour conjurer le mauvais sort, sans quoi des fantômes et démons apparaîtraient.Actors
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