Kodoani.com – The official website of the anime series The Secret of the False God: (The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe) has announced that the film will be re-screened in theaters in Japan starting on October 4. This new version will be titled The 1st chapter: The mysterious mystery (Real birth version). The special thing about this version is that it has about 327 scenes re-edited, with some new voiceovers. This version will be rated R15+while the original version of the film was rated PG12.
The main film opened in Japan in November 2023 and achieved considerable success, selling 111,500 tickets and return 160,106,620 of them (approximately US$1.07 million) in its first three days. As of January 28, the film has grossed a total of 2,472,410,610 yen (about 16.79 million US dollars).
Gō Koga (Gegege no Kitarō: Nippon Bakuretsu!!, One Piece Episode of Sabo) directed the film at Toei Animationand Hiroyuki Yoshino (Macross Frontier, World Trigger, 2018 13-episode GeGeGe no Kitarō) wrote the script. Toko Yatabe (third ending unit director of 2018's GeGeGe no Kitarō, assistant director of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time) is responsible for character design.
The film is part of four “major projects” commemorating 100th Anniversary of Shigeru Mizuki's Birth. Mizuki, the author of the series, died in 2015 at the age of 93. Another project in this commemorative series is the anime Akuma Kunpremiering on Netflix in November 2023.
Anime GeGeGe no Kitarō The latest — the sixth anime — premiered in April 2018 and replaces Dragon Ball Super in the same time slot, ending in March 2020 after 97 episodes. This anime version starred Miyuki Sawashiro as Kitaro and Masako Nozawa as Medama Oyaji. Both actors reprise their roles in the film, although Nozawa is credited as “Kitarō's Father” instead of Medama Oyaji.
Comic series GeGeGe no Kitarō Mizuki's started in 1959 under the name Hakaba Kitarō and has spawned seven television series, several animated films, and two live-action films. The story revolves around a non-human boy who straddles the line between the human world and the supernatural world.