The film opens in Japan on Friday
The official website for the animated film Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo (Kitarō Birth: The Mystery of Gegege) released the film’s “final” trailer on Wednesday.
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Image via Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo’s website
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The film opens in Japan on Friday.
The main cast includes Toshihiko Seki as Kitarō’s father, who later becomes Medama Oyaji, and Hidenobu Kikuchi as Mizuki, a salaryman who comes to a cursed village under secret orders. Other cast members include:
Atsumi Tanezaki as Sayo, Otome and Katsunori’s daughter Yumiko Kobayashi as Tokiya, Kanoko and Kenji’s son Tetsu Shiratori as Tokisada Ryūga, the head of the Ryūga family who secretly manipulates politics Nobuo Tobita as Tokima, the brother Tokisada’s eldest son Yoko Soumi as Otome, Tokisada’s third daughter Yuko Minaguchi as Hinoe, Tokisada’s second daughter Masaya Matsukaze as Yamada, a journalist pursuing Kitarō’s past Umeka Shouji as Neko Musume (returning from the television anime) Akira Ishida as Kenji Nagata, husband of Kanoko Rie Kugimiya as Kanoko Nagata, third daughter of Tokisada Kazuhiro Yamaji as Katsunori, husband of Otome Kazuya Nakai as Kōzō, second son two by Tokisada
Gou Koga (Gegege no Kitarō: Nippon Bakuretsu!!, One Piece Episode of Sabo) is directing the series at Toei Animation and Hiroyuki Yoshino (Macross Frontier, World Trigger, 2018’s 13-episode GeGeGe no Kitarō) is writing the script. Touko Yatabe (director of GeGeGe no Kitarō 2018’s third ending, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time, assistant director) is designing the characters.
The film is part of four “major projects” commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Shigeru Mizuki’s birth. Mizuki passed away in 2015, at the age of 93. Another project is the new Akuma Kun anime that premiered on Netflix on November 9.
The latest GeGeGe no Kitarō anime — the sixth television anime incarnation — premiered in April 2018 and replaced Dragon Ball Super in the same timeslot. The series ended its broadcast in March 2020 after 97 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired.
The 2018 anime stars Miyuki Sawashiro as Kitarō and Masako Nozawa as Medama Oyaji. Both will take on roles in the film, although Nozawa is credited as “Kitarō’s Father” instead of Medama Oyaji.
Mizuki’s manga, begun in 1959 under the name Hakaba Kitarō, has spawned seven television series (including one television series). anime Hakaba Kitarō), several animated films and two live-action films. The story revolves around an inhuman boy who straddles the boundary between the human world and the supernatural world.
Source: Kitarō Tanjō: website, Comic Natalie