Film

Dark Myth Gaki Chapter/Heaven Chapter

1990 · 1h 40m · Animation

An animated adaptation of Daijiro Morohoshi's masterpiece, which shocked the 70's Japanese sci-fi manga world with its rich ancient history pedantry and the charm of its elaborately constructed worldview. The production of the main animation is Asiado of "Chibi Maruko-chan". The director is Tomomi Mochizuki of "Dirty Pair FLASH2". A young boy, Takeshi, is guided by a mysterious old man, Takeuchi, from Nagano to ancient Izumo. Takeshi gets lost in a dark world while visiting famous places related to ancient mythology. So Brahman, the will of the universe, began to tell Takeshi a startling fact.

Nozomi Sasaki

Mizuho Suzuki

Show Hayami

Takahiko Tamura

Hiromi Tsuru

Yuzuru Fujimoto

Masako Matsubara

Tatsuyuki Ishimori

• Takashi AnnoScreenplay · Director
• Yoshiaki YanagidaScreenplay
• Hideo KawauchiScreenplay

Release date

January 13, 1990

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Animation