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Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (1969)

Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts poster
Original title
東海道お化け道中
Directed by
Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Genre
fantasy, horror
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 18m
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 16 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A group of people travel along a road in Japan and encounter strange events caused by yokai spirits. The film shows traditional Japanese monsters haunting and playing tricks on the travelers.

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What happens

Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (Japanese: 東海道お化け道中, Hepburn: Tōkaidō Obake Dōchū; lit. The Haunted Journey Along Tokaido) is a 1969 Japanese fantasy horror film directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda and Yoshiyuki Kuroda. It is the third in a trilogy of films produced in the late 1960s, all of which focus around traditional Japanese monsters known as yōkai. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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