Finally, in theaters this weekend! Kitaro: The Birth of Kitaro, A GeGeGe Mystery" The Movie Final Trailer Arrives! The "secret and forbidden tale" is finally revealed...

The final trailer for the animated feature film "The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of Gegege" scheduled for release on Friday, November 17, 2023, has been released.

The movie "The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of Gegege" is a theatrical film commemorating the 100th anniversary of Shigeru Mizuki's birth, which tells for the first time the story of "the birth of Kitaro" and his former father, Oyaji.
The director is Go Koga, who also directed "Gegege no Kitaro the Movie: Japan Explodes! The script is written by Hiroyuki Yoshino, known for his work on the TV animation "Macross F," and the character design is by Toruko Yatabe, a young up-and-coming director who worked as an assistant director on the "Shin Evangelion Theater Version.
⇒The bloody door will be opened - "The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe", a theater version, and many horrifying yokai will appear in the scene cuts! [November 17, 2012] (In theaters)

⇒Click here for the screening schedule of the animation movie.

Kitaro's Birth of GeGeGe Mystery' Final Trailer Released!

In this video, Masanori Nozawa's father says, "At last, the time has come..." and the film starts off with a meaningful comment, showing scenes of countless monsters attacking, Mizuki and Kitaro's father's wavering emotions as they solve the mystery, and Kitaro's father saying, "The world where my child will be born. I want to see with my own eyes the world where my child will be born.

Kitaro: The Birth of Kitaro, A Gegege Mystery" will finally be released in theaters this weekend, on November 17 (Friday). This film has a different taste of real horror for adults from the conventional Gegege no Kitaro, so why don't you enjoy it on the big screen in the theater?

Film Information

<Story
Kitaro and Oyaji Medama set foot in the abandoned former village of Wailukuura.
Oyaji and Kitaro are recalling the events that took place in this village 70 years ago.
About his encounter with that man and the fate they both faced...
1956 - the village of Weeping Cura was ruled by the Tatsuga family, who controlled the political and business worlds in Japan behind the scenes.
Mizuki, who works for a blood bank, takes on ambition and a secret mission to mourn the death of the head of the family, Tokisada, while Kitaro's father enters the village to look for his wife.
In the Tatsuga clan, an ugly battle had begun over Tokisada's successor.
Then, a member of the clan is brutally murdered at the village shrine.
It was the real beginning of a terrible chain of bizarre events.
The encounter and fate of Kitaro's fathers, and what they saw in the midst of overwhelming despair...

<Cast
Miyuki Sawashiro
Umeika Shoji
Masaya Matsukaze
Masako Nozawa
Toshihiko Seki
Hidenobu Kiuchi
Atsumi Tanezaki
Yumiko Kobayashi
Tetsu Shiratori
Nobuo Tobita
Kazuya Nakai
Yoko SAWAMI
Kazuhiro Yamaji
Yuko Minaguchi
Rie Kugimiya
Akira Ishida
Toshio Furukawa

＜Staff
Original Story : Shigeru Mizuki
Director : Go Koga
Screenplay : Hiroyuki Yoshino
Character design：Toruko Yatabe
Art Director：Mai Ichioka
Color Designer: Sayoko Yokoyama
Director of Photography: Tomoyuki Ishiyama
Production Designer: Kou Sawamori, Keifumi Horikoshi
Production: Toei Animation
Distributor: Toei

(C) "Kitaro Gegege no Mystery" Film Partners