Tôkaidô obake dôchû

This is a movie about his an old caretaker of a shrine that gets killed during a gang ambush. His granddaughter that is 7 years old is the witness and may possess something the gang wants. So a hunt for the little girl starts while she travels to another town to try to find her father....

I found this to be an eerie combination of moody hauntings and dark forests, some quite okay fighting scenes, and a quite cute small girl. I found this movie closer to scary than the first two movies, even though you did not see the monsters so much. Camera work and story I found clearly upgraded from the two first movies. Acting was also quite good.

If you wants to see lots of monsters/spirits I would say the 2 first movies are more for you.

Who would I recommend it to? People that like supernatural things combined with some fighting. Though if you do not like 7 years old girls that is sweeter than sugar then it is possible you will hate it. The monsters are for me more scary and better than in the two first, but for our time expecting it to be true horror is maybe expecting too much. But I am happy I saw this movie as I found it much better than expected.

Like said, it's an ok movie. It's decent and more of story rather then fights. It have a mixture of adventure and humor in it which i didn't mind at all. For being a supernatural/paranormal movie with japanese ghosts and demons it was not that much of it but it had its moments. But the story was ok, it had its twist and it build the characters.

I did enjoy the characters, how they acted and how it ended. The fights was ok, it's not a lot of them but i dont mind that at all when looking at the environments and building feeling of the country of Japan during the samuari ages.

If you want something with a lot of atmosphere, not too much fighting and some ghosts/demons this the movie for you. It's no the best one out there, but it's ok - enjoyable.

Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (1969) is a Japanese Samurai Horror picture that I recently watched on Shudder. The storyline follows an old man who protects ancient lands filled with spirits. When a group of hoodlums kill the old man the spirits return to reality for revenge.

This movie is codirected by Yoshiyuki Kuroda (Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell) and Kimiyoshi Yasuda (Zatoichi and the One Armed Swordsman) and stars Kôjirô Hongô (Satan's Swords), Bokuzen Hidari (Seven Samurai), Saburô Date (Bullet Train) and Ryûtarô Gomi (Harakiri).

This movie is outstanding and easily the best of the trilogy. The attire, settings, props and depiction of the era were all perfect. The haunting scenes are very well done with good use of smoke machines and eerie background music. The masks and makeup used are very well done. The fight scene are excellent and entertaining - both the monsters vs humans and the samurai sword fights. The faceless children were a nice touch and I loved the twist at the end.

Overall, this is an underrated addition to the horror genre and a trilogy absolutely worth your time. I would score this picture an 8.5/10 and strongly recommend it.

If I had to rank this odd little Yokai Monsters trilogy, I'd say the second instalment, Spook Warfare, was the best, followed by this one, followed by the still decent 100 Monsters.

This third one makes me wonder if it's even a trilogy, because the monsters here are definitely different than the ones from the first two, but oh well. While they're cool, they're also not in it a lot- maybe even less than the first one.

Thankfully, the rest of the movie - all the non-supernatural stuff - is pretty decent. Nothing great, but a moderately interesting storyline that feels like a historical/samurai drama with a few brief ghost appearances as icing.

It's pretty serviceable, mostly enjoyable stuff, but it's definitely not great. That being said, and to avoid being too negative, it is more than worth watching if you enjoyed the first two in any capacity.

Unlike Daiei Film's previous two 'yôkai' films (Yôkai hyaku monogatari (1968) and Yôkai daisensô (1968)), the monsters/ghosts/apparitions are not the central characters in this tale. Instead, we get a reasonably interesting samurai/gangster story about a crime boss trying to recover an incriminating document that was found by a little girl who is trying to find the father who abandoned her when she was born. The boss' henchmen kill an old man at prayer (the girl's grandfather), a desecration that arouses anger in the spirit world. The cursed gang-members are tormented by the yôkai as well as pursued by a rival gangster whose boss was murdered at the shrine. The entire supernatural subtext seems to be an afterthought and certainly is not necessary to the actual story. Lacking the permeating hallucinatory imagery of the first two 'yôkai' films, "Along with Ghosts" (Tôkaidô obake dôchû), while watchable, is not nearly as original or entertaining.