Spooky Kitaro Collection

TOTAL BINGE TIME: 7h 33m

The Definitive Watch Order & Chronological Timeline

Spooky Kitaro

Released: 1985 // Runtime: 24m // Rating: 6.7

Movie based on the 1985 TV anime with an original plot.

1985

Spooky Kitaro: The Great Yokai War

Released: 1986 // Runtime: 40m // Rating: 7.2

The second movie based on the 1985 TV anime.

1986

Spooky Kitaro: The Strongest Ghost Army! Landing in Japan!!

Released: 1986 // Runtime: 49m // Rating: 6.0

A monster appeared out of nowhere, transformed into a human, and began selling strange cloth. Becoming suspicious, the cat girl follows him and witnesses a horrifying scene deep in the mountains. Using a technique she had never seen before, she turned her colored paper into a piece of cloth...

1986

Spooky Kitaro: Crash!! The Great Rising of Demons from Another Dimension

Released: 1986 // Runtime: 48m // Rating: 6.0

Kitaro's worries about a typhoon that came during the unseasonable winter turn out to be true. A typhoon known as a mysterious weather event that occurs once every 1000 years has landed in Tokyo. At that time, a monster emperor appears on TV and decides to support Japan...

1986

Spooky Kitaro: The Great Sea Beast

Released: 1996 // Runtime: 50m // Rating: 5.7

Kitaro is a yōkai boy born in a cemetery and, aside from his mostly decayed father, the last living member of the Ghost Tribe (幽霊族 yūrei zoku?). He is missing his left eye, but his hair usually covers the empty socket. He fights for peace between humans and yōkai, which generally involves protecting the former from the wiles of the latter.

1996

Spooky Kitaro: Ghost Nighter

Released: 1997 // Runtime: 30m // Rating: 6.5

A film adaptation of the 'Spooky Kitaro' story of the same name: a baseball-themed story where Kitaro and his yokai friends play against a human baseball team. The plot revolves around the human team cheating their way to victory by using cursed bats to win games, and Kitaro steps in to restore fairness.

1997

Spooky Kitaro: Yokai Express! The Phantom Train

Released: 1997 // Runtime: 25m // Rating: 7.0

Kitarou, a ghost, spends his afterlife helping humans in need of his skills. He thwarts the plans of evil spirits who live to torment humanity. In this episode The Western demons hijacked the Phantom Train. Kitaro and his friends must stop this crime.

1997

Spooky Kitaro: Japan Explodes!!

Released: 2008 // Runtime: 83m // Rating: 4.7

Movie based on the 2007 TV anime with an original plot.

2008

The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe

Released: 2023 // Runtime: 104m // Rating: 7.4

1955. Kitaro's father, Medama Oyaji, comes to Yagura Village in search of his missing wife. The village was ruled by the Ryuga clan, which controls Japan's political and business circles behind the scenes. Mizuki, who works at a blood bank, visits the village with a secret mission to mourn the death of the head of his family, and meets Kitaro's father. While an ugly fight unfolds over the succession of the head of the family, a member of the family is brutally murdered at the village shrine. It was the beginning of a terrifying chain of events.

2023