Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie (1993)

Original title

幽☆遊☆白書

Directed by

Noriyuki Abe

Genre

animation, action, adventure, comedy

Country

Japan

Runtime

30 min

Rated

PG

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 75 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A short animated film where the spirit detective Yusuke and his friends face a demon who steals a sacred seal. They must fight to get the seal back before it causes chaos.

fast-pacedaction-packedsupernaturallightheartednostalgicstraightforwardbattle-focusedadventurous

What happens

Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie (Japanese: 幽☆遊☆白書, Hepburn: Yū Yū Hakusho), also known as The Golden Seal, is a 1993 Japanese anime film based on the YuYu Hakusho manga series created by Yoshihiro Togashi. The 30-minute film was directed by Noriyuki Abe and produced by Studio Pierrot. It was released theatrically in Japan on July 10, 1993 at the seasonal Toei Anime Fair. The movie was dubbed into English by Anime Works and Animaze and released on VHS on June 9, 1998 and on a single DVD with Ninku: The Movie on January 30, 2001. Funimation Entertainment later released the film to DVD, along with the Eizou Hakusho OVAs, on December 13, 2011 as Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie & Eizou Hakusho, featuring a new English dub with their original voice cast from the anime television series. A Filipino dub titled Ghost Fighter: The Next Mission released by Regal Entertainment in the Philippines. Like the television series, it features the songs "Smile Bomb" and "Sayonara Bye Bye" by Matsuko Mawatari (Sarah White and Stephanie Nadolny in Funimation's English version) for its opening and closing credits respectively. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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