Yokai Monsters Collection - BLU-RAY

Three-disc set includes Yokai Monsters 100 Monsters (1968)One part horror film and one part InchTeletubbiesInch video, this off-the-wall Japanese shocker follows a greedy merchant who opens a brothel on the site of a religious shrine. A storyteller's painted screens come to life, releasing a bizarre array of beings from Japanese folklore-from rubber-necked ghost Rokuro-kubbi to Karakasa the one-legged umbrella beast-who teach the wicked businessman a lesson. Jun Fujimaki, Miwa Takada and Mikiko Tsubouchi star. 90 min. In Japanese with English subtitles. C/Rtg NR Yokai Monsters Spook Warfare (The Great Yokai War) (1968)A vampiric Babylonian demon, accidentally freed from his 4,000-year imprisonment, makes his way to feudal Japan, where he kills and takes the form of a local magistrate. It's up to Kappa the duck-billed water imp and his supernatural compadres to defeat the evil interloper, in this creature-filled follow-up to Inch100 Monsters.Inch Takashi Kanda, Akane Kawasaki, and the comedy duo of Hanji and Kenji Wakai star. 90 min. In Japanese with English subtitles. C/Rtg NR Yokai Monsters Along With Ghosts (1969)The third and final entry in the InchYokai MonstersInch series offers a more traditionally spooky tone than it's predecessors. When criminals kill a little girl's grandfather on sacred ground as they search for incriminating documents the child has, they unwittingly unleash a slew of vengeance-seeking spirits. Masami Burukido, Kojiro Hongo star. 90 min. In Japanese with English subtitles. C/Rtg NR The Great Yokai War (2005)Shock auteur Takashi Miike (InchAuditionInch) shocks once again-this time by turning his talents to a family fantasy adventure. A remake of the 1968 Japanese cult hit known in the U.S. as InchYokai Monsters Spook Warfare,Inch this spectacular film finds a troubled young boy recruited to lead an ancient spirit army against a beguil