Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Gegege no Kitaro (DVD EAL 887)

I decided to watch this film because the cover was entirely inexplicable to me. There are 11 characters on the front cover. One might not be able to distinguish two such characters as being characters, but they are. You could not be able to distinguish them as characters because on is an eyeball and one is a roll of cotton. There is also an old woman with a tuft of hair growing down her face, a frightened child and a train with a head that is on fire on the front. The hero of the movie, Kitaro of the Ge Ge Ge Forest, is a ghost who is kind of an ambassador of the Yokai to the humans who shoots needles from his hair. The move is packed with weirdo Yokai monsters with police/birds that are reminiscent of The Never Ending Story. Plus at the end all the characters do the Thriller Dance.

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