Monday Drama Land Gegege no Kitaro (1985)
Genre : Fantasy, Horror
Runtime : 1H 11M
Director : Yoshiaki Kobayashi
Synopsis
Released in 1985. A live action adaption of the original manga series, created in 1960 by Shigeru Mizuki.
A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great war of yōkai (a class of mythological creatures), where he meets a group of friendly yōkai who become his companions through his journey. Now he must fight to protect his friends and free the world of the yōkai from oppression. The yōkai originate in Japanese folklore and range from the cute and silly to the disturbing.
Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt yōkai. To save the world from being destroyed, Kei Watanabe challenges a war against the yōkai.
A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in back. But he makes the fatal mistake of hosting a 100 Ghost Stories ceremony without the closing cleansing ritual, opening the door for the Yokai Monsters to punish the wicked.
When a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him.
When military experiments go haywire and trigger an atomic bomb, the consequences are of epic proportions. A monster arrives in the midst of the nuclear fallout, and Japan's defenses are helpless against it. Mankind's only savior is an irradiated water goblin from Japanese folklore called the "Death Kappa." The two rival monsters must go head-to-head in the ultimate battle between good and evil!
In feudal Japan, gangsters chase a young girl who might testify against their boss. When the gangsters murder the girl's grandfather on sacred ground, the door is opened for the Yokai Monsters to step in.
The story focuses on Kitarou's birth and stars Kitarou's father (later Medama Oyaji) and Mizuki (Kitarou's foster parent).
Released in 1985. A live action adaption of the original manga series, created in 1960 by Shigeru Mizuki.
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