Yokai Monsters is a series of
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ese children's movies created in the 1960s.
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Yokai Monsters is a series of
Japanis an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese children's movies created in the 1960s.
There were originally three movies made:
- Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare
Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare was the first in a series of Japanese children's movies created in the 1960s.There were originally three movies made:* Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare 1968* Yokai Monsters: One Hundred Monsters 1968...
1968
- Yokai Monsters: One Hundred Monsters 1968
- Yokai Monsters: Along With Ghosts 1969
The films were produced by Daiei Motion Picture Company, and bear a resemblance to that studio's other series,
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and
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, and to other Japanese pop culture favorites like
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and
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.
In 2005
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directed the first new entry in the series, The Great Yokai War, which was more or less a remake of Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare.
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