Kitaro and the Millennium Curse

Kitaro and the Millennium Curse

• Movie: Gegege no Kitaro: Kitaro and the Millennium Curse
• Romaji: Gegege no Kitaro: Sennen noroi uta
• Japanese: ゲゲゲの鬼太郎　千年呪い歌
• Director: Katsuhide Motoki
• Released: July 12, 2008
• Runtime: 115 min.
• Distributor: Shochiku Co.,Ltd.
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Synopsis

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 when they meet Kaede Hiramoto, a high school girl who finds herself involved in this mystery. With the help from the librarian of Yokai Library, they find out that the curse was caused by an evil Yokai that was released from 1,000 years of sealing. To save Kaede, they are to gather the 5 ancient musical instruments and perform the ritual to seal the evil Yokai again, which has to be done within 48 hours!

In search for the ancient instruments, Kitaro and his buddies depart for three different points that the ancient map indicates Kitaro & Kaede head to “sky”, the sacred mountain in Hakone, Cat-girl and Ratman head to “land”, Mt. Takao, and Sand Witch and Old Cry Baby head to the “ocean” off the coast of Miura peninsula.

Will Kitaro be able to stop the curse, protect Kaede and the human beings from the evil Yokai, and also, overcome his destiny?

Cast 

• Eiji Wentz  - Gegege no Kitarô
• Kii Kitano  - Kaede Hiramoto
• Rena Tanaka  - Neko Musume
• Yô Ôizumi  - Nezumi Otoko
• Isamu Tanonaka - Medama Oyaji (voice)
• Kanpei Hazama - Konaki Jijii
• Shinobu Terajima - Nure Onna - Nami
• Jisobu So - Yasha 
• Shirô Sano - Jakotsu Babaa
• Takashi Sasano  - Ido Sennin
• Masato Hagiwara - Umihito
• Shigeru Muroi - Sunakake Babaa
• Ken Ogata - Nurarihyon

Review

If to compare between this movie and Gegege no Kitaro, I like this movie much much more and I think this movie are more better than the previous one. The plot and the story line are more interesting with a some of fighting scene of Kitaro with his primary weapon of flying wooden sandal and needle hair and also a flashback of Kitaro's origin. Each cast also had made a tremendousness way of acting and a lot of mistake in the first movie had been improved in this movie. Somehow, even though it's more interesting than the first movie but it can be more better.