Details and Website for Kitaro (working title), based on a Horror manga

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1. Andrew Cunningham 11/04/2006 @ 10:29am

   Mizuki Shigeru, who did the original Gegege no Kitaro manga, was part of the Kwai team of four major horror writers behind the development of The Great Youkai War, and did all the monster designs. The kid even visits the museum dedicated to his work at one point during the film, and he appears in the film as the head in the box near the end.
   Horror-action is a little misleading; it was done in the sixties, and is a lot more playful and kid-oriented than that suggests.
   This was originally announced with Tsutsumi (Trick) Yukihiko attached as director, but this no longer appears to be true.
   Sad.

2. Wolf 11/04/2006 @ 10:53am

   Thanks for the info, Andrew Cunningham.  According to the Shochiku site, its listed under genre as “Action” and “Fantasy” so perhaps the film may take on a different tone from the manga.  This is just speculation so I could be wrong.  We’ll see when a trailer comes along....The part about Centro Digitial doing the SFX has got me interested, especially when dealing with monsters.

3. Don Brown 11/04/2006 @ 4:28pm

   Good looking out on the official site. I wrote about this one back in May, June and July.

4. Pygar 11/05/2006 @ 1:43am

   I’m a huge fan of the original manga and anime of Gegege no Kitaro. I’m surprised that the titles didn’t start getting translated and sold Stateside after The Great Yokai War.

5. Morty 11/05/2006 @ 2:12am

   The movie will be produced by Chihiro Kameyama, who brought us hits like “The Uchoten Hotel”, “Limit of Love”, “Bayside Shakedown” and more. Beside Shochiku, Fuji TV and Dentsu are also on board.

   Does anyone know anything about the budget of “Kitaro”? That would be interesting.

6. Caterpillar 11/05/2006 @ 5:47am

   Maybe because GREAT YOKAI WAR didn’t set the box office or DVD sales ranking on fire. At least there’s a DVD box of the anime series in Japan. We should be grateful for that.

7. James Maruyama 11/05/2006 @ 3:47pm

   I’m also a huge fan of the Fuji TV/Toei Animation 80s series and love the fact that another live action movie is being adapted from the series (there was a terrible low budget live action OVA movie released in 1987 (Yokai Kiden Ge Ge Ge No Kitaro - Mateki Eroizam [Ghostly Legend Ge Ge Ge No Kitaro - Demon Flute Eroizam]). I didn’t realize there were three other anime series based on the manga series beside the 80s series (1968, 1971, and 1996). I’m not too thrilled that Wenz Eiji (who also portrayed “Cobra Otoko” in the Kamen Rider remake last year)is set to star as Kitaro. If you have money to burn, the entire 108 episode series can be purchased in a box set for around 61589 yen (or roughly 599 US dollars).

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