Tôkaidô obake dôchû

I found this to be the weakest in the trilogy because I found this to be pretty plain. The story isn't that impressive with criminals trying to track down a little girl who has some kind of documents that want while she is trying to find her missing father. It gets pretty repetitive with them catching up with her and her getting away from them. I didn't find the plot all that interesting and is predictable on who the girl real father is. As for the yokai, they barely appear in the movie at all, and their actions happen pretty quickly to leave an impact. Also, a lot of the actions aren't suspenseful or intense.

The movie also isn't bizarre or interesting compared to the previous movies because the yokai barely appears, and most of the weird stuff isn't that memorable.

Along with Ghosts is the weakest in the trilogy that I didn't enjoy at all, and the first two movies are more enjoyable than this one.

It's about protecting a young girl and a precious document. The yokai do their thing. The samurai ronin do their thing. It does not end well for some samurai.

They meet an old man who warns them not to use violence on this path where there are many aspirations aka Yokai. The samurai obviously ignore this and attack the old man for just 'getting in the way'.

This old man is a pivotal component for the rest of the storyline. It's a romantic story and a story with treachery and early special-effects. This is not the most amazing film but it is well-made for the time and the romance of the story makes it interesting. It's part of Arrow Video's Great Yokai Collection.

Worth a watch! 7/10.

The closing instalment of the YOKAI MONSTERS trilogy is a very different beast, much more understated and subtle than the previous movies and more horror than fantasy. The monsters themselves are little seen here apart from in a couple of scare scenes but the rest is an engaging little story of criminal behaviour, treachery, and heroism. Appealing child actors, lots of action and movement and attention to detail make this a fair watch.

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.

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.