Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro (1979)

Country of Origin: Japan
Year of Production: 1979
Running Times: 100 mins (USA)/ 110 mins
Format: colour/35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: stereo

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Studio Telecom/Tokyo Movie Shinsha Co Ltd
Executive Producer: Yutaka Fujioka
English Language Version Executive Producer: Laurence Guinness
Producer: Tetsuo Katayama
English Language Version Producers: Haruyo Kanesaku, Yutaka Maseba
US Version Producer: Carl Macek
English Language Version Production Coordinators: Kei Onishi, Kenji Nakamura, Osamu Maseba

SCRIPT
Script: Hayao Miyazaki, Harauya Yamazaki (real name: Tadashi Yamazaki), Yasuo Otsuka
Comics: Monkey Punch
English Language Version Translation: Neil Nadelman, ZRO Limit Productions
English Language Version ADR Script: Mary C. Mason

DIRECTION
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
English Language Version Directors: Jenny Haniver, Joe Romersa
Assistant Directors: Mochitsugu Yoshizawa, Shigetsuga Yoshida

ANIMATION
Animation Director: Yasuo Ôtsuka
Animators: Atsuko Tanaka, Hideo Kawauchi, Hideyo Sano, Jôji Manabe, Junko Shimozaki, Kazuhide Tomonaga, Masako Shinohara, Masami Ozaki, Mikako Ôsato, Nobumasa Arakawa, Nobuo Tomizawa, Shôji Maruyama, Tsukasa Tannai, Yasunao Aoki, Yoko Sakurai
Character Designers: Hayao Miyazaki, Yasuo Otsuka
Background Art: Hiromasa Ogura

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Hirokata Takahashi

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Mitsutoshi Tsurubuchi
English Language Version Online Editor: CP Booth
English Language Version Online Editing Facility: VDI Multimedia West

MUSIC
Music/Song: Yuji Ono (Honoo no takaramono)
Song Performed By: Bobby (Honoo no takaramono)
Music Production: Columbia Music Entertainment

SOUND
English Language Version Dubbing: Animaze
English Language Version Additional Sound Effects: Les Claypool III, Lisa Hannon
English Language Version Digital Tracking: 'Big Phil' Brewster, Joe Romersa
English Language Version Final Mix: Les Claypool III
English Language Version Recording Facility: Magnitude 8 Post

DESIGN
Art Director: Shichirô Kobayashi

OTHER CREW
English Language Version Subtitles: Captions Inc
English Language Version Subtitle Timing: Neil Nadelman, ZRO Limit Productions

CAST
Yasuo Yamada (Arsene Lupin III)
Eiko Masuyama (Fujiko Mine)
Kiyoshi Kobayashi (Daisuke Jigen)
Makio Inoue (Goemon Ishikawa XIII)
Gorô Naya (Inspector Zenigata)
Sumi Shimamoto (Lady Clarisse de Cagliostro)
Tarô Ishida (Count Cagliostro)
Kôhei Miyauchi (Gardener)
Ichirô Nagai (Jodo)
Kinzô Azusa (The Archbishop)
Shôzô Hirabayashi (Interpol Secretary General)
Junkichi Kamada (Soviet delegate)
Akio Nojima (Japanese delegate)
Osamu Saka (British delegate)
Mikio Terashima (West German delegate)
Tadamichi Tsuneizumi (Gustav)
Yôko Yamaoka (waitress)

ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION VOICES
Bob Bergen (Arsene Lupin III)
Michael McConnohie (Cagliostro)

ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION VOICES (MANGA VIDEO DUB)
Sean Barker (real name: David Hayter) (Arsene Lupin III)
Dorothy Melendrez (Fujiko Mine)
Ivan Buckley (Daisuke Jigen)
Ruby Marlowe (Clarisse d'Cagliostro)
Sparky Thornton (real name: Kirk Thornton) (Count Cagliostro)
Richard Barnes (real name: Milton James) (Jodo)
Bambi Darro (bar waitress/woman playing cards)
Richard Epcar (Goemon Ishikawa XIII)
Richard Plantagenet (servant)
James Lyon (real name: Jamieson Price) (Zenigata's second in-command)
Joe Romersa (Inspector Koichi Zenigata)
G. Gordon Baer (real name: Peter Spellos) (Interpol council member)
Gil Starberry (real name: Barry Stigler) (Christopher)
Wayne Anthony, Sensil Astoroth, Fred Bloggs (real name: William Bassett), Lauren Benjamin, John daniels (real name: Beau Billingslea), Susan Chavez, George C. Cole, Christopher Cunnington, Andrew Ebert, Gloria Gines, Dougary Grant, Kevin Guy, David Jeffries, Abe Lasser, Marlon Mann, Jeff Nimoy, Jack Hammer (real name: Daran Norris), Elliot Reynolds, Adam Sholder, Carol Stanzione, Alfred Thor, B.D. Vesbite, Keith Roger Washington, David Waterhouse, Ken Zhee (additional voices)

GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION VOICES
Donald Arthur (Hardyman/Arsene Lupin)
Horst Sachtleben (Dan Dee)
Madeleine Stolze (Prinzessin Yasmin/Lady Clarisse de Cagli)

PLOT SUMMARY

International super-thief Lupin III turns up in the small European duchy of Cagliostro on the trail of some forged banknotes. But he gets more than he bargained for when he stumbles onto a centuries old conspiracy. Lupin and his companions find themselves trying to rescue Clarice from the clutches of the evil Count Cagliostro while also searching for an ancient treasure.

AVAILABILITY

Australia
Theatrical Distributors: Madman Entertainment Pty Ltd

Netherlands
DVD Distributor: Manga DVD

USA
Theatrical Distributors: Streamline Pictures (1991); Manga Entertainment (2000)
DVD Distributors: Rykodisc (4051)

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Australia
Rating: PG

Canada
Rating: PG

France
Rating: U

Spain
Rating: 13

UK
Rating: PG

USA
Rating: PG-13

West Germany
Rating: 6

AWARDS

1979
Mainichi Film Concours, Japan
Ofuji Noburo Award (Hayao Miyazaki) - winner

1981
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, USA
Saturn Award: Best International Film - nominated

TIMELINE

1979
December
15: Japan - theatrical release

1991
April
3: USA - theatrical release

2000
April
25: USA - DVD release Rykodisc (4051)

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Arsene Lupin and the Castle of Cagliostro
The Castle of Cagliostro
Le château de Cagliostro - French title
Hardyman räumt auf - West German title
Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro

LINKS

SEQUEL TO
Rupan sansei (1971)
Rupan sansei Part II (1977)
Rupan sansei: Mamo karano chousen (1978)

SEQUELS
Rupan sansei: Babiron no Ogon densetsu (1985)
Rupan sansei: Fûma ichizoku no inbô (1987)
Rupan sansei: Arukatorazu konnekushion (2001)
Rupan sansei: Ikiteita majutsushi (2002)

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Cliff Hanger (1984)

KEYWORDS

animation, anime, book into film, castles, conspiracies, counterfeiters, criminals, police, sequels, thieves, treasure, weddings

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008