Toei began streaming a new trailer for Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo Shinsei-ban (True Birth Version), the shortened version of the anime film Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo (The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe), on Wednesday.
The trailer highlights Kitaro's close relationship with his father.
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The new version features approximately 327 re-shot cuts, as well as some re-dubbed dialogue. The new version is rated R15+.
The film's initial screening had a PG12 rating.
The new version of the film will hit theaters in Japan on October 4.
Image via Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo Movie Website
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The original version of the film opened in Japan in November 2023 and sold 111,500 tickets for 160,106,620 yen (approximately US$1.07 million) in its first three days. The film has earned a cumulative total of 2,472,410,610 yen (approximately US$16.79 million) as of January 28.
Gō Koga (Gegege no Kitarō: Nippon Bakuretsu!!, One Piece Episode of Sabo) directed the series at Toei Animation, and Hiroyuki Yoshino (Macross Frontier, World Trigger, 2018's 13-episode GeGeGe no Kitarō) wrote the script. Tōko Yatabe (2018's GeGeGe no Kitarō third ending director, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time, assistant director) designed the characters.
The film is part of four “major projects” commemorating the 100th anniversary—the anniversary of Shigeru Mizuki’s birth. Mizuki died in 2015 at the age of 93. Another project is the Akuma Kun anime, which will premiere on Netflix in November 2023.
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 airing in March 2020 after 97 episodes.
The 2018 anime stars Miyuki Sawashiro as Kitarō and Masako Nozawa as Medama Oyaji. Both reprise their roles from the film, although Nozawa is credited as “Kitarō's Father” instead of Medama Oyaji.
Mizuki's manga, which began in 1959 under the name Hakaba Kitarō, has spawned seven television series (including a television anime series), several animated films, and two live-action films. The story revolves around a non-human boy who straddles the boundary between the human world and the supernatural world.
Source: Toei's YouTube channel
