Nobody talks about this one. A 1986 Kitarou film that operates on pure folklore logic instead of narrative sense, where yokai bureaucracy and ghost-world absurdity collide head-on with genuine dread. You're watching something that trusts you to accept a demon filing complaint forms and a interdimensional invasion in the same breath, then actually makes both feel like they belong in the same world. The creature design carries the weight here, not exposition. This is what anime looked like when studios could just commit to weird.

Gegege no Kitarou: Gekitotsu!! Ijigen Youkai no Daihanran is a 1986 theatrical film spun off from the 1985 Gegege no Kitarou television anime. Rather than adapting existing material, it tells an original story of its own. Its title points to a clash with a great uprising of yokai from another dimension, and the film mixes adventure, comedy, fantasy, horror and the supernatural.