The gentleman thief Lupin, third-born of a dinasty, after robbing a casino discovers that all the banknotes are fakes. And so, with his trusted partner Jigen, decides to investigate on the fakers. This way they'll discover that in the middle of this illegal trade there is the little country of Cagliostro.
The spirit of the original Lupin is deeply french: the Castle of Cagliostro, in fact, is based on two novels of Maurice Leblanc: "La Comtesse De Cagliostro" and "La Demoiselle aux yeux verts"
Started for get revenge for a shame, they'll soon be “distracted” by something much more interesting: the heir apparent, the young and cute Clarisse, has been kidnapped by the Count Cagliostro.
Rushing to the aid of the beautiful princess, Lupin get himself involved in a sly and sinister plot that will lead him to meet again an old enemy, remembering that the gentleman thief has been already in that castle 10 years before... and now it's time to come to terms.
The director of this anime movie is Hayao Miyazaki. When the “child-poet” of japanese animation (precisely Miyazaki) has to adapt a manga for the cinema, it's usual for he to shuffle the cards: that's also the instance of "The Castle of Cagliostro".
This animated film has nothing to do with the original comic signed Monkey Punch. At the opposite, we find in it all Miyazaki's obessions: his love for planes, his ecologism, his heroines with angelic faces and above all his sexism and his 'lolitism'. Miyazaki creates a very personal movie, much nearer to Maurice Leblanc novels than to the original manga.
Soft, sensible and poetic, it gives back to Lupin a past, a heart, and an intelligence that makes him human.
Manifestly Miyazaki makes a tribute to french cinema with this movie. We find, in fact, many similes with "The King and Mr. Bird" of Paul Grimault: Starting with the chara of the "Count" men, the castle himself it's clearly inspired to the one of Takicardie both architecturally and for the quality of it's traps, ending with the amazing fight scenes of the roofs.
It surely couldn't be different.
The spirit of the original Lupin is deeply french: the Castle of Cagliostro, in fact, is based on two novels of Maurice Leblanc: "La Comtesse De Cagliostro" and "La Demoiselle aux yeux verts", are part of the adventures of Arsène Lupin that were published in episodes starting with 1905 in France, and that had an enormous success also in Japan.
In 1979, Miyazaki revives in zen-style the elements of that culture as it was an archetype: the lonely hero dangerously in love with crime, castles in ruin, princesses in wedding dress, final fights on giant clocks... but re-read with ironic eyes that, accomplice, wink to the past.
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Here's the review of "Lupin III The Castle of Cagliostro" According the Staff of Nanoda: If you're foolish enough to not agree or you REALLY want to state your opinions, go ahead and express yourself and debate with the other inmates of Nanoda! ^_^
4.34.644.23.2344.1
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