Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

A fantastic world unlike anything you have ever seen!

Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Produced by Daiei Film

196880 min6.6 / 10

A visually inventive supernatural revenge tale where yokai monsters punish greed and corruption, blending folk horror with moral instruction and fantastical spectacle.

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.

Questions people ask

  • Is Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters scary? Somewhat. More frightening than 67% of films.

  • Is Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters sad? Not especially. Less sad than 67% of films.

  • Is Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters violent? Somewhat. More violent than 59% of films.

  • Does Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

59/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Familiar shape, done well.

Rarity95

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise40

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love50

How much audiences actually like it

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Same Mood as Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

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Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

Like Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters, But Lighter

Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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