If you loved BEM: BECOME HUMAN, try The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theyboth carry the atmospheric, cozy, dread, foreign gem, late night mood tags, and they sit in Animation / Fantasy / Horror territory. If that's the register that drew you to BEM: BECOME HUMAN, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe is
A fog-laced shrine in Yagura Village at dusk, incense curling over a child’s abandoned sandal. A father searches for a missing wife while a blood-bank worker arrives to mourn a dead patriarch. At the shrine, the first corpse appears—then the real hunt begins. A ’70s kaiju-horror caper filtered through Studio Ghibli’s mischievous lens.

