The Castle of Cagliostro
(1979)
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The Castle of Cagliostro
(1979)
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Yasuo Yamada | ... |
Arsene Lupin III
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Eiko Masuyama | ... |
Fujiko Mine
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Kiyoshi Kobayashi | ... |
Daisuke Jigen
(voice)
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Makio Inoue | ... |
Goemon Ishikawa XIII
(voice)
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Gorô Naya | ... |
Inspector Zenigata
(voice)
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Sumi Shimamoto | ... |
Lady Clarisse de Cagliostro
(voice)
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Tarô Ishida | ... |
Count Cagliostro
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Kôhei Miyauchi | ... |
Gardener
(voice)
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Ichirô Nagai | ... |
Jodo
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| David Hayter | ... |
Arsene Lupin III (Manga Video English Dub)
(as Sean Barker)
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Dorothy Elias-Fahn | ... |
Fujiko Mine (Manga Video English Dub)
(as Dorothy Melendrez)
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Ivan Buckley | ... | |
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Bridget Hoffman | ... |
Clarisse d'Cagliostro
(voice) (as Ruby Marlowe)
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Kirk Thornton | ... |
Count Cagliostro (Manga Video English Dub)
(as Sparky Thornton)
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Milton James | ... |
Jodo (Manga Video)
(voice) (as Richard Barnes)
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Reknowned international thief Lupin III (known as "Wolf" in the English dub) comes to the small European duchy of Cagliostro to investigate some excellently-forged money and stumbles across a national conspiracy going back some hundreds of years. Lupin and his friends must rescue the beautiful Clarice from the hands of the evil Count Cagliostro and solve the mystery of a hidden treasure dating back to the 15th century. Written by Christopher E. Meadows <cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu>
I don't like Japanese anime most of the time. In fact, the only anime I genuinely love comes from Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. Now, I knew this movie was a Miyazaki film, but the fact that I'd never even SEEN or READ Lupin the series made me veeery hesitant to check this movie out. I'd seen it at the Library movie section but wasn't willing to fork over the one dollar to rent it.
I finally saw it yesterday, thanks to my sister, and MAN! was it awesome! I didn't expect it to play out like a regular Miyazaki film, but it did in every aspect I can think of: the animation style, the facial expressions, the plot, storyline and script, and the overall feel of the movie screamed Miyazaki. By the end, I even learned to love Lupin and the whole cast of characters who were all strangers to me at the beginning of the movie.
Aside from the corny 70's music, this movie was fun every step of the way. It was funny, romantic, dramatic, action-packed: everything! So I guess that sums it up well. I'm sorry I didn't watch it before, so now i'm telling you--GET THIS MOVIE! I'm sure you will find at least something in it that will entertain you.