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 ...

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 ...

The wooden sandal song, “Karan Koron no Uta” (The Clap-Clopp song), always sends an eerie but delightful shiver down my spine. I look around and I think I feel a presence. Or two. I don’t see anything ...

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 ...

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Young women disappear one after another in drizzling rain. They all hear the “cursed song” of the Cage Song before they vanish into thin air. Kitaro and his friends investigate these mysterious cases ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has been seven years since Kitaro last performed here. In 2017, the Japanese musician-composer staged a gig at the former Grand Theatre at Marina Bay Sands. This time, he is back at the same venue, ...

“His first Iranian concert in Tehran organized during October 2014 was warmly received by concertgoers, and there have been more requests from other cities to host the event,” Ali Cheraghali, the ...