The fight between humans and Yōkai can be traced back a thousand years.
Surround her!
You've brought misfortune to our village!
Kill the monster!
Then the fish will return to the sea!
Let's go!
What are you doing? Stop it!
There's the monster!
Stop it!
Kagome, Kagome...
The bird in the cage...
When will he fly away?
In the evening of the dawn.
The crane and the turtle have slipped.
Who is that behind you?
If you can hear the "Song of Kagome" on a rainy night...
your soul will be taken and you die.
Why does that "Kagome" steal people's souls?
Does she hate them?
She doesn't need a reason for that!
But isn't all this scary? That Kagome...
Not at all!
Eri, your stories aren't just scary enough.
You know, there's also that other story...
Hey, you there!
The festival's gonna start soon, so we'll start practicing now.
Yes. Yes.
Oh, Kaede:
I wanted to tell you...
Your music still hasn't developed its right character.
What?
It's not enough just to play what's written on the sheet of music.
You need to put more of your personality into the music.
Okay, the break's over. Let's get going!
Yes.
Let's go.
Kagome, Kagome.
The bird in the cage...
Is there someone?
When will he fly away?
Who?
In the night before dawn.
I've come to take your soul.
Give me your soul.
Your soul.
Young lady.
Are you okay?
Good.
I'm not a dubious person.
I was here on patrol...
when I heard something like a scream.
Yes.
Even by the Yōkai-Post...
many letters are sent.
Look: So many.
Oh, there's even one from another country.
Ah, I'm late.
I'm the director of the research institute for mysterious phenomena...
BiBiBi no Nezumi-Otoko.
Good evening.
And that is my assistant.
Hey!
Yes?
Introduce yourself.
Yes.
I'm GeGeGe no Kitarō.
GeGeGe no Kitarō - The Thousand-Year-Curse Song
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Ge Ge GeGeGe no Ge...
In the morning he's sound asleep.
How nice, how nice...
Ghosts don't need to go to school.
They have no tests.
Ge Ge GeGeGe no Ge...
Let us sing: GeGeGe no Ge.
Hm? Where is he?
Oh. Wait, wait.
Oh, Kitarō. Here, here.
Since your birth I'm having trouble with you.
Come, this way, this way.
Hey, walk properly!
Hey, here, here.
Ouch.
Heave-ho! Heave-ho!
Heave-ho!
Mark time.
And one, two, three, four.
(White: "Kagome-Onna": The soul of a person who has been cursed by Kagome-Onna will be taken away from her and his body will be devoured. It is absolutely impossible to escape from that curse.)
Oh? Kaede.
Do you have a problem?
No.
Oh, the train has arrived.
Are you waiting for someone?
No.
I see.
Let's go.
Well, see you.
See you.
120 square meters. 30 years credit?
What should I do?
Oh!
Ah, welcome home.
Does it have a wooden deck? This house...
Ah... thanks about yesterday evening.
A...a....a.... no... well...
"Although there was no need to help me..."
that's what you're thinking now, right?
Oh, wait!
You had lost your student ID.
Thank you very much.
scales.
What?
Be at ease.
No matter what your problem may be...
After paying a small fee, I'll solve it instantly.
Up and down...
My teeth are becoming too dry.
Up and down...
I'm very sensitive there.
Wow...
Hey! Stop singing that terrible song!
Can't you fly faster?
Ouch! Hey, can you still remember what you had promised to me?
Yeah, yeah, you greedy guy.
Three bars of chocolate, yes? I'll give them to you later.
Hold on tight!
Good bye.
I feel ill.
Eh? So you just...
want to abandon that girl?
There's nothing we can do, right?
That's what she said herself, so don't ask any further.
This attitude doesn't suit you at all.
That's no true.
Phew.
Why do you always have to talk in that tone?
But that's how it is, father.
No matter how much we struggle for those humans...
they don't appreciate our deeds...
and don't they forget...
me and everything else anyways?
What's up? Are you in the terrible twos?
Not at all!
Oh my, oh my... have I failed...
in educating you?
Maybe you want to discuss that matter with your mother?
What are you talking about?
How do you mean that, father?
You know...
with the help of King Enma...
we can meet the soul of my wife Iwako.
Oh? We can meet Kitarō's mother?
Then she can appreciate Kitarō's deeds and...
we can meet her at least once again.
Cool!
You're happy now, right, Kitarō?
N... not really.
I don't know anything about my mother...
and I've never met her before.
Hah, hah, you're blushing!
Nonsense!
My agency is on the first floor.
Nezumi-Otoko...
We have a customer, guys.
Oh.
Oh, don't be shy. Come on in.
Even though it's a little bit dirty.
Neko, make some tea or so.
Oh? You're the girl from yesterday...
Hey!
What?
They've been cultivated on my father's farm!
A shell. And another shell.
A shell. Ha, ha, ha.
Shell...?
Hm... scales, caused by the "Song of Kagome"?
I can't remember such a Yōkai.
There's nothing we can do, I guess.
Hey, Kitarō!
How are you talking in front of our client?
Are you still on our side?
You're the last one to ask me THAT!
Right.
Hey, Kitarō, Nezumi-Otoko is right.
Even your father says so.
Sorry, lady.
Sorry.
No, I...
You know, this is really an inadequate behavior for one of our research members!
Sorry, we will continue researching diligently.
OK, guys, let's move to our next case.
I would like...
to ask someone, who's older than anyone else here...
something.
Oh? Where are...
Sunakake and Konaki?
Hm? Vacation.
Vacation?
Yeah, I bet they're on Miura Hantō.
Miura? They are on Miura?
Ah... what a nice bath...
Like in paradise.
Don't you want to come in?
After you're finished.
Ha, ha, ha. You can also join me.
No, no.
Okay, put this down here.
Hm?
Is this a raisin?
Ah! What are you doing? Ah! Ah!
Oh, this is a very old Kakko.
This thing seems to have quite a long history.
You're a real expert, huh?
Because you have an eye for beauty I want to ask you something.
Could you rate this for me?
I'd like to know what it's worth.
I've obtained it from an insatiable pawnbroker.
Is there somewhere a guy who's even more insatiable than you?!
Are you crazy? There are a lot of them!
You're underestimating the humans!
The fireworks last night were great. Boom!
Oh! Welcome back.
Welcome back.
A souvenir.
Oh, how thoughtful.
A human? Here?
Whatever. Sit down.
Didn't you want to come back tomorrow?
Yes, yes, right.
Ah! Nezumi!
You! What are you doing here?
Nothing special.
Hey, don't act like that!
Oh. Why?
In here, yes?
Heavy!
Ah... ah... this here...
Ha... oh...
You've destroyed a shrine which had been guarded one thousand years...
You thief!
Don't use that bad word.
Better say "treasure hunting".
Hm? Wait!
Right now I remember an old story...
A thousand years ago, there was an evil spirit...
on Miura Hantō, who has devoured the souls of humans.
The souls?
Isn't that similar to the rumor about Kagome?
Because of her evil doings...
she was banished by the humans.
And then?
Well, that's all I know...
Hey! Maybe we should do some further research?
In the Yōkai-Library.
Hy!
What?
Yes yes... y... y... y... yess...
Hello, would you please step aside, yes?
Ah!
Which one should I take?
It's been a long time....
Is he going to throw it? Is he really gonna do it?
Yes!
Thanks.
Let's go.
Oh, welcome.
Oh? That's GeGeGe no Kitarō.
Neko-Musume.
You're late, Kitarō.
Are you listening...
You couldn't find us, right?
Oh, Kaede, sit down, too. There.
Well...
I don't understand this.
Sorry that it took me so long.
Ah, Yōbi, could you find it?
Yes, Neko. Here.
Oh?
Oh! These are the notes about the evil spirit.
What do we have here? Hmmm...
"The evil spirit marks his victims...
with scales."
And...
"After two twilights at midnight...
with the cry of a stray eagle owl...
she comes...
to take his soul".
"After two twilights"
"at midnight", right?
But this seems strange.
The "Song of Kagome"...
came into existence at the end of the Edo period or at the beginning of the Meiji period.
This doesn't match with the period of this evil spirit.
Mister!
What is it, Yōbi Buguruma?
This might be the common doctrine, but...
the song, which the "Song of Kagome" is based on...
should exist much longer.
Here are some documents about it.
That's what I have expected from the librarian of the Yōkai-library!
Oh! What's this?
Oh, I see...
The evil spirit had been banished by the "ceremony of the five court musicians".
Five court musicians?
Hm?
To banish an evil spirit with music and dancing...
is a ceremony of the Yamabushi sect.
There are five instruments necessary:
Shōko,
Hōshō,
Gakubiwa,
Hichiriki and...
the said Kakko, that had been stolen by Nezumi-Otoko.
So, if we do that five-court-musicians-thing once again...
Yes, then we can banish the evil spirit once again...
and release the curse.
You...
look at this map.
Yes.
Look.
What, what?
Oh! This is...
"The sleeping face in the mist"
"The bamboo leading bed"
"The navel in the sea"
Yes.
Hey, about these two twilights, we've talked about before...
that does mean two mornings, right?
Yes.
And "at midnight" does mean...
Oh?! Isn't that tomorrow at midnight?
Neko-Musume.
Tomorrow?
Soon, we'll be able to fulfill your heart's desire.
Nurarihyon.
We need to show those foolish creatures who act like mighty rulers...
their limits.
Ugh... ah... oh...
I'll do some further research...
regarding the lost Hichiriki.
I'll assist you with absolute responsibility.
Yes.
Yes, please.
Well...
Kitarō, you go to Kamiyama.
Yes... yes.
I'll go to Takaosan, just leave that to me.
Sunakake and Konaki...
will go to Miura.
They were there on vacation, so they know the area.
Roger! I'll tell them.
Tree spirits!
Yeeeeeees.
Just leave it to Haruka!
Hibiki. Always ready!
Yay! An excursion!
Yes, three tree spirits...
They'll help us with communication.
Oh? Wait.
Me too!
Here, Kitarō. Take Hibiki.
Yes.
Yes, let's go.
Bye, Kitarō.
Ah, Neko...
And so our vacation goes on.
The sea breeze is feeling good.
So good, that I feel young once again.
Is it in this direction?
Yes, no doubt.
My "leading sand" shows us, that we need to go this way.
"The navel in the sea"?
I see nothing...
I'll fetch you up later.
Be careful.
Sweet dreams.
See you later.
Bye!
Hey!
Oh... Nezumi-Otoko?
I'll accompany you.
Not necessary. You don't need to come with me.
And don't get too close. You stink.
Don't say such a thing.
You know, I've also got some responsibility to bear.
Responsibility?
You can feel something like that?
You?
Sure!
Come, let's go.
Let's go.
Uh... that's feeling good.
You've worked really hard.
Oh, how thoughtful.
I've boiled up camomile and flowers from the wellsprings of Kusatsu.
You can relax and repose your eye.
Uh... like in paradise...
I wanted to ask you that earlier:
So, how is it, really?
What do you mean?
Oh, come on.
I'm talking about Kitarō.
Wha... what do you mean?
Don't act like that!
You have a crush on him!
A... ah, that's nonsense...
"That's nonsense", you're pretty nervous.
Don't you know? If you just wait and...
don't tell him that you like him...
I don't care...
But maybe someone else will steal him from under your nose.
What do you want from me?
Oh, there's no need to turn into a monster cat!
Bamboo.
Bamboo, bamboo, bamboo.
Oh?
What are you doing there?
I? I'm a little bit thirsty.
Hurry!
Here's also dried squid.
Squid?
You like squid, huh?
Is this a Tanuki?
Maybe I can sell this to the antiquary, too?
Ouch!
That hurt!
What was that?
Get off me, Neko-Musume!
You stink!
Ouch! Have you become fatter lately?
Shut up.
Ah... ouch...
Where are we?
What is this?
Oh?
Hey! Nezumi-Otoko!
W... w... who are those guys? I'll leave them to you.
What, you want to run away alone?
Ah, they're coming from there, too.
No.
Go!
Do something!
Do something. You're from the same family.
Heave-ho!
He, he...
In which direction should we paddle?
Which?
Not this way and not that way.
The leading sand.... the leading sand doesn't tell me anymore.
Don't throw it away!
Ah! The paddle!
The paddle! The paddle!
Here.
Thanks.
We go after you've drunken this.
We don't have time.
And I can really trust you?
What?
"You mustn't trust strangers",
that's what my grandmother always said.
You don't trust me?
Why were you there when I was cursed by Kagome?
I was just on patrol.
But doesn't this contradict?
Aren't Yōkai just the friends of evil spirits?
No!
There are many different Yōkai.
I have nothing...
You're just saying this for the sake of that "research institute for mysterious phenomena".
What are you planning that you have to betray me?
Why am I doing all this here...
Forget about it!
Ouch!
Are you OK?
And there are still so many things I wanted to do...
I wanted to become much better on the trumpet...
but...
I'm going to die soon.
No, that's not sure yet.
You shouldn't give up yet.
Liar.
Wake up!
Lady Sunakake. It's me Haruka!
I said, wake up!
A goat?
Heeeeeeeey...
Heeeeeey...
Heeey...
A well?
He... he... he... he, here...
Oh?
Hey, look down here!
Here, here...
Oh...
Oh, Ido Sennin?
Sunakake-Baba.
Oh, I want to ask you something.
Neko!
Hey.
What's up.
You're a bamboo cutting Tanuki, right?
Erm? What?
This thing should be rather valuable, right?
I have no idea whether it's valuable or not...
Tengu Takao entrusted it to me.
The Hōshō!
So, this is the Hōshō!
Oh, Neko.
Good...
You're going to lend it to us, right?
Don't say such nonsense!
What?
I can't lend it to you so easily.
But you said, if I dance for you, you will lend it to us.
Don't start whining just because you danced a little.
Don't underestimate her!
If you really want to borrow it...
Dance, dance!
I did that already!
Neko!
Dance, danc...
What are you doing here?
You aren't working at all...
just drinking and partying.
You good-for-nothing!
Erm... who are you?
The better half of this good-for-nothing!
Ah! You monster cat!
Stop that pathetic dancing and go home!
Pathetic?
I'm really sorry.
My stupid husband...
didn't know about the circumstances.
Come on, apologize already!
Hey!
Okay, okay!
Erm... here...
Ah!
Thank you. I'll take good care of it.
Ah, and this here.
A bamboo grass dumpling, you can eat it when you're back home.
Thank you very much.
Be careful on your way home, OK?
Yes.
And you go home, too!
Don't I mean anything to you?
Since you're marked with the scales, you're going to die a miserable death.
And because you're going to die anyways...
you should...
and because I'm going to die anyways...
I should...
Do you want to get rid of your sorrows?
I want to get rid of my sorrows.
Yes.
Then it's better to die here...
Look out!
Are you OK?
Someone has lured you here.
Let's go.
This is the Shōko.
Oh...
Because it's you, I'll lend it with pleasure.
Oh, you're going to lend it to me?
But Sunakake...
Yes?
What do you want to do with it?
In order to banish an evil spirit...
we need to perform the ritual of the five court musicians once again.
Sunakake...
Yes?
The ritual of the five court musicians, are you talking about...
Nure-Onna?
Is Nure-Onna the name of that evil spirit?
Nure-Onna is not an evil spirit.
Satori...
Taking advantage of the people's sorrows...
"You coward"?
What do you want?
I'm here because I wanted to meet you.
My poor friend of justice.
I can see you.
I can see you!
Nobody appreciates your doings.
You're fighting everyday for those unthankful humans.
Here! Kitarō, here. Here, here, I'm here.
She causes you a lot of trouble, right?
This sacrifice...
Feces, feces, my feces!
That stinks!
Phew!
Feces, feces, my feces!
How disgusting!
Down there!
Hey!
Don't fool around! Kitarō is waiting for us.
Kitarō? Do you really think so?
What should I do? Should I say it...
or shouldn't I say it?
Maybe it's already over with him.
Uh? What do you mean by that?! Hey!
Maybe something terrible has happened to him, who knows...
Something terrible?
"Something terrible", what do you mean by that?
Hey, wait a second!
Maybe...
Maybe he already kicked the bucket.
Feces, feces, my feces!
My feces!
Mein Kot!
What's wrong with you?
Let's go!
My feces!
Bye, bye.
Ouuuuuuch....
Yes.
Dammit!
Oh?
Kitarō.
I'm out of feces!
Why?
Why did you do that?
Hm? What?
Why did you help me?
"Why?"
Yes, why?
Before I realized it, my body started moving on its own.
Yes.
But... I was so mean...
Kitarō?
Yes.
I didn't have to think at all...
right from the start.
Thanks, Kaede.
Huh?
I'm so stupid.
I don't need a reason to help someone.
Kitarō!
I'm OK. But don't come too close.
I stink a little bit.
Who are you?
You're our guest from that far away country, right?
Quiet, huh?
I can read you!
Who are you...?
Let's go!
Yes.
Hey!
Shall we try it?
You stupid idiot, what's wrong with you?!
Sorry, sorry. You're Bokuboku-Biwa, right?
Oh? And you're GeGeGe no Kitarō, huh?
Yes.
I'm going to test you, though.
Test? What?
Whether I can trust you.
Try to play on me.
What? Play on you?
If you can play on me properly...
I'll go with you wherever you want.
Come on.
I guess I have no choice.
I've never played on a biwa before.
Wait a second!
What?
No you, Kitarō.
That girl.
I?!
Hey, why not me?
That doesn't matter. Come on.
If you don't want to, that's okay...
but I won't move one step from here, then!
Erm, Kitarō?
I'll try it.
But can you play on a Biwa?
My grandmother has taught me to play it.
Yeah! We have a deal!
Hey, gal, take me.
Hurry, hurry, take me!
Oh, your hands a pretty cold.
But that shows me that you have a warm heart.
Can you see that crooked tree?
Sit down there.
Sit down, you can't play on me while you're standing.
And treat me good, okay?
Be careful that you don't play wrong on me!
Oh, good.
OK, I'll start.
Try to play on me.
Oh, that feels good!
You've passed! Wonderful!
What?
Oh, that was very nice.
Ah... that was really good...
This feeling of being touched by long, white fingers...
I haven't felt it the last 500 years.
My span of life has prolonged for another thousand years!
Thanks, gal.
A call! A call!
Hello, it's me. Kitarō? Are you OK?
Neko-Musume. I'm OK.
There's another call!
An urgent call from lady Sunakake.
Urgent?
Neko-Musume, wait a moment.
Hello? It's me, Kitarō...
Oh, Kitarō.
We... we.. we... have a huge problem!
A problem?
Apparently the data from the library were wrong.
Someone must have tampered with them.
Ido Sennin has told me the truth.
"The truth about the evil spirit"
Which goes like this:
Nurikabe!
Sit down, young lady.
Well, Sunakake.
Nure-Onna was a mermaid.
She was a really beautiful Yōkai.
And she loved pranks.
She destroyed the fisher's nets in order to let the fish escape...
That's how she spent her time.
Wait! Don't swim away! Come here!
Well, she didn't want to harm the humans that way...
It was more like a game to her.
Stop!
I'm Umihito.
What's your name?
But the encounter with the young fisherman Umihito...
had changed Nure-Onna.
She became...
inflamed with passion.
So, you want to become a human?
And you won't regret it?
I've already decided.
Nure-Onna changed her name to "Nami"...
and decided to spend her life as the wife of Umihito.
Humans and Yōkai.
Be a good child.
A bound which surpassed those boundaries...
Be careful.
She thought that her happiness would last forever.
But...
those foolish humans didn't let that happen.
We didn't catch any fish today again.
It's all that monster's fault.
Monster?
Because that monster came to our village...
the god of the sea has become angry.
What shall we do, leader? If this goes on...
If we cross the mountains...
Whom do we find?
Whom?
"Kidōshū"...
Is this the mountain monk who can banish that monster?
He should be able to do that.
There's the monster.
What are you doing?
Umihito!
Even though she begged for her life...
the villagers cornered Nure-Onna.
That monster!
Help!
Help me, Umihito! Ahhh!
Ugh!
Help!
Umihito.
Umihito!
Scream as much as you like, it's useless!
Umihito has abandoned you!
We have no place for monsters!
I'm banishing the evil spirit.
Katsu!
Go to hell!
Nure-Onnas skin...
got an inflammation which looked like scales.
Nothing of her former appearance remained.
But Nure-Onna didn't do anything wrong.
It was...
the human's fault, right?
The Biwa was sealed in a shrine in Isodzuka...
The Biwa was hidden in Kamiyama...
The leader of the Kidōshū took the Hichiriki with him.
Which means, in our case...
that the resurrected Nure-Onna tries to take revenge on the humans?
Kaede!
Humans and Yōkai.
It's not about the question which side is at fault.
It's only important to protect the innocent lives.
Ah, master.
Have you found out where the Hichiriki is?
Unfortunately....
Ahh...
What's the problem?
The recordings regarding the Kidōshū...
are torn off for some reason.
They've been torn off right here.
Ah!
Look!
Ah!
We only know the family crest of the Kidōshū.
That's what you've said, Kitarō, right?
What?
You said, that you don't need a reason to help the humans...
but...
we humans...
did such terrible things to Nure-Onna, even though she begged for help...
Nurarihyon.
You still remember...
the promise you've made me, right?
Be unconcerned.
When you have collected all souls...
I will give you your beautiful appearance back.
We want the soul of the Kidōshū's offspring.
Look, there's just...
one single soul missing:
Kaede Hiramoto.
Don't let her escape.
Let this become...
your personal revenge.
This time, put your own anger into it...
Nurarihyon.
That we brought that Nure-Onna on our side...
There's no one better than mermaids...
when it comes to dealing with souls.
Very useful.
As... a tool...
Yaksa? You good-for-nothing...
What an unfriendly guy.
Even though you're our guest of honor from a distant country...
you should display a better behavior!
Oh, is this the treasure chamber?
Let's see what treasures...
Nurarihyon has put here.
Wah! No! No!
Ah, this must be the guardian of the treasure chamber.
Oh, you're doing a really good job here.
Somehow I've lost my way...
Is there a convenience store somewhere close?
Don't mind, I'll search on my own.
I've totally lost my way...
You really have your eyes on a strange place.
I didn't expect your grandmother...
to be a descendant of the Kidōshū.
I can understand you somehow, but...