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Kitaro (live-action movie)

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Alternative title:
Gegege no Kitarō (Japanese)
Kitaro dei Cimiteri: Il Film (Italian)
ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 (Japanese)
鬼太郎 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: supernatural
Plot Summary: n modern-day Japan, the worlds of the human and the yokai often collide, and usually not in the most pleasant of manners. Half-human and half-yokai, one-eyed Kitaro (Wentz Eiji) lives in Gegege Forest with his bickering friends Nezumi Otoko (Oizumi Yo) and Neko Musume (Tanaka Rena) and his eyeball father, and he dedicates his time to maintaining peace between humans and yokai. When a magical ball of power ends up in the wrong hands, Kitaro must recover it or both worlds could fall into grave danger.
Running time: 103 minutes
Vintage: 2007-04-28
Premiere date:
2007-04-28 (Japan)
2008-01-19 (Italy - Future Film Festival)
Opening Theme:
"Gegege no Kitaro" by Teppei Koike
Ending Theme:
"Awaking Emotion 8/5" by Eiji Wentz
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Kitaro (Blu-ray) 2008-11-18 (from $8.50)
DVD (Region 1)
    Kitaro (DVD) 2008-10-28 (from $100.00)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Katsuhide Motoki
Screenplay:
Katsuhide Motoki
Original creator: Shigeru Mizuki
Art Director: Hisao Inagaki
Executive producer: Nozomu Enoki (Shochiku)
Producer:
Yoshitaka Ishizuka (Shochiku)

Action Coordination: Yuta Morokaji
Beauty Director: Isao Tsuge
Casting: Kei Kawamura (川村 恵)
CG: Cédric Hérole (pH Studio)
Chief Executive Producer:
Teruki Matsumoto (Shochiku)
Cinematography: Yasushi Sasakibara (JSC)
Costume Design: Kodue Hibino
Editing: Isao Kawase
Film Partner:
Yusuke Dan (Yahoo! Japan)
Film Partners Representative:
Yūji Shimamoto (Dentsu)
Lighting: Kenji Ushiba
Music producer: Shin Yasui
Planning:
Kenji Shimizu (Fuji Television)
Sound Recording: Yutaka Tsurumaki
Special Makeup: Etsuko Egawa
Theme Song Arrangement:
Yasuaki Maejima (OP)
Theme Song Composition:
Taku Izumi (OP)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Shigeru Mizuki (OP)
Theme Song Performance:
Teppei Koike
VFX Supervisor: Yasushi Hasegawa
Eiji Wentz as Kitarō
Isamu Tanonaka as Medama Oyaji (voice)

Gō Rijū as Haruhiko Miura
Kanpei Hazama as Konaki Jijii
Koyuki as Tenko
Mao Inoue as Mika Miura
Rena Tanaka as Neko Musume
Ruka Uchida as Kenta Miura
Shidō Nakamura as ŌTengu Judge
Shigeru Muroi as Sunakake Babaa
Shingo Yanagisawa as Ittan Momen (voice)
Toshiyuki Nishida as Wa-Nyūdō
Yō Ōizumi as Nezumi Otoko
YOU as Rokurokubi

Akihiro Ōishi as Construction worker
Dave Spector as Kasabake (voice)
Emi Nakagawa as Housewife
Fuyuki Moto as Teacher
Gō Yamazaki as Yōkai Band
Hikaru Ijūin as Nurikabe (voice)
Hiroki Koyama as Ryō
Hiroshi Kanbe as Momonjii
Kasumi Suzuki as Ai Tanaka
Kazuhiro Iijima as Yōkai Band
Kazuhisa Ishii as Betobeto-san (voice)
Kazuyuki Matsuzawa as Masato Tanaka
Kei Tani as Monowasure
Ken Yasuda as Tengu Police (voice)
Kitarō as Nuppeppō (voice)
Kogan Ashiya as Landlord
Kōki Maeda as Isamu
Mami Uematsu as Nurse
Manabu Ino as Detective Maeda
Masato Maeda as Yōkai Band
Mikako Fujita as Drinking Zombie
Miwa Kawagoe as Mrs. Miura
Mizuki Fuji as Housewife
Naomasa Musaka as Antique Store Owner
Naoto Takenaka as Soba Shop Owner
Shigeki Katō as Miage Nyūdō (body)
Shinichi Karube as Tsurubebi
Shinobu Tsuruta as Businessman
Shinosuke Tatekawa as Bakezōri (voice)
Shinsuke Kasai as Otoko-Obasan
Silsa Kang as Silent Zombie
Sōta Takagi as Yōkai Band
Takashi Fujii as Binbōgami
Takashi Taniguchi as Detective Inoue
Takashi Yukawa as Construction worker
Tatsuo Higashida as Tengu Police (body)
Tsutomu Tamura as Young Detective
Yasunari Takeshima as Tengu Prosecutor
Yōjin Hino as Foreman
Yoko Shibata as Rokuro-Kubi (body)
Yoshiaki Kitajima as Construction worker
Yoshio Doi as Policeman
Yoshizumi Ishihara as Miage Nyūdō (voice)
Yuriko Hirooka as Sachiko Tanaka

Gō Shinomiya (voice)
Hideki Makino (voice)
Miho Hino (voice)
Tsuguo Mogami (voice)
Japanese companies
Cooperation:
Tokyo TV Center
Distributor: Shochiku
Planning: Shochiku
English staff
English companies
(none)
Distributor:
Manga Entertainment (United Kingdom and Ireland)
Licensed by: Navarre Corporation
English cast
(none)
Italian staff
Italian companies
(none)
Broadcaster: Man-Ga
Italian cast
(none)
Polish staff
Polish companies
(none)
Polish cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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