Cackling Kitarou (1968)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Youko Ohkushi
Sunakake baabaa (voice)
Masako Nozawa
Kitarou
Chikao Ohtsuka
Nezumi-otoko / Rat-man
Isamu Tanonaka
Eye-Ball Daddy / Medama-no-oyaji
Shigeru Mizuki
Writer
Yoshio Kuroda
Director
Tadami Shimokawa
Art Direction
Susumu Takaku
Script
Masaki Tsuji
Screenplay
Shun'ichi Yukimuro
Script
Makoto Yamazaki
Art Direction
Sadamitsu Matsumoto
Production Supervisor
Motonari Wakai
Script
Hideo Chiba
Art Direction
Kazuo Kumakura
Theme Song Performance
Taku Izumi
Original Music Composer
Tsuguyuki Kubo
Animation Director
Ichiro Nagai
Konaki Jijii/Kagami Jijii/Yamabiko (voice) / Konaki Jijii/Kagami Jijii/Yamabiko (voice) / Kagami Jijii (voice)
Akiko Tsuboi
Mrs. Yamada (voice)
Kenji Utsumi
La Seine (voice)
Kousaku Sugiura
Yasha (voice)
Sachiko Chijimatsu
Tomiko (voice)
Sanji Hase
Mammoth (voice)
Kiyoshi Komiyama
Shuishi Yamada (voice)
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 3, 1968
Original Nameゲゲゲの鬼太郎
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes65
Running Time25m
Genres
Wiki.
GeGeGe no Kitarō (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎), originally known as Hakaba Kitarō (墓場鬼太郎, "Kitarō of the Graveyard"), is a Japanese manga series created in 1960 by Shigeru Mizuki. It is best known for its popularization of the folklore creatures known as yōkai, a class of spirit-monster which all of the main characters belong to. This story was an early 20th-century Japanese folk tale performed on kamishibai. It has been adapted for the screen several times, as anime, live action, and video games. The word GeGeGe (ゲゲゲ) in the title is similar to Japanese sound symbolism for a cackling noise but refers to Mizuki's childhood nickname, a mispronounciation of his given name.
Selections of the manga and the theatrical live-action films have been published in English, simply titled Kitaro. The 2018 anime series is streamed with English subtitles as GeGeGe no Kitaro. The publisher of the North American English manga is Drawn & Quarterly.