Yokai Monsters : Along with Ghosts: Finishing up the Yokai Monsters trilogy we have Along with Ghosts. This is not quite the ghost filled spectacle that 100 Monsters and Spook Warfare were but instead was more of a period film with supernatural elements and the occasional ghost.

The story in this film begins with two rival bosses who attack each other and an old man gets inbetween them. Because of his death a curse is released. More importantly, the man had a granddaughter and with his dying breath gives her a pair of dice and instructions to find her father. She goes on being aided in her quest by one of the men of the now dead boss (played by Daiei and Gamera regular Kojiro Hongo.) Most of the film plays out from there like a typical samurai film until the end when all the ghosts show up.

This would be the last of the Yokai Monsters series. Daiei, due to poor management I've heard, went into a decline and would end up filing for bankruptcy in 1971, a mere two years after this film. Still, they were able to turn out quite a decent

Labels: Horror, Japanese