Yokai Monsters is 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)
- 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, Gamera and Daimajin, and to other Japanese pop culture favorites like Godzilla and Ultraman.
In 2005 Takashi Miike directed the first new entry in the series, The Great Yokai War.
Famous quotes containing the word monsters:
“We’ve forgotten what it’s like not to be able to reach the light switch. We’ve forgotten a lot of the monsters that seemed to live in our room at night. Nevertheless, those memories are still there, somewhere inside us, and can sometimes be brought to the surface by events, sights, sounds, or smells. Children, though, can never have grown-up feelings until they’ve been allowed to do the growing.”
—Fred Rogers (20th century)