Live-action creature feature Kitaro has become producer-distributor Shochiku's highest-grossing first week release ever. Released on April 28 on 339 screens, Kitaro earned $8.5m (Y1.02bn), achieving ...
Conceived as part of celebrations to commemorate the centenary of the birth of GeGeGe no Kitaro creator Shigeru Mizuki, The Birth of Kitaro: Mystery of GeGeGe presents the previously untold origins of ...
The film ' Kitaro Birth: The Mystery of Gegege,' which was released in November 2023 as a commemorative work for the 100th anniversary of Shigeru Mizuki's birth and has attracted much attention, and ...
SAKAIMINATO, Tottori Prefecture—A road lined with 177 bronze statues of Shigeru Mizuki’s manga characters has drawn millions of visitors since it was set up to revitalize this city 30 years ago. The ...
It’s difficult to describe the music of Kitaro, one of the leading architects of New Age music. But you know it when you hear it: the Zen-like wail of a Japanese flute, the pitter-patter of percussion ...
Most devotees of New Age music need no introduction to Kitaro, the Japanese synthesizer player whose albums of mesmerically atmospheric instrumental music have sold more than 10 million copies ...
Yo-kai Watch 4: We’re Looking Up at the Same Sky will feature a cameo from GeGeGe no Kitaro‘s Kitaro, the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu reveals. Kitaro seems to appear in a guest role—not as someone ...