The film premiered in Japan on November 17
The official website for the anime film Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo (Kitarō Birth: The Mystery of Gegege) began streaming the film’s opening sequence on Tuesday.
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Image via Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo’s website
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The film opened in Japan on November 17 last year and sold 111,500 tickets and earned 160,106,620 yen (about 1.07 million USD) in the first three days of release. The film ranked 3rd in its fourth week of release. The film sold 166,300 tickets and earned 248,932,300 yen (about $1.70 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film sold 810,000 tickets and grossed a total of 1,150,040,030 yen (about 7.89 million USD).
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