History Anime / TheCastleofCagliostro

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The Count is quite a match for Lupin during their climatic sword fight inside the ClockTower.

* LighterAndSofter: The movie is generally more light-hearted than the franchise had been by that time. It even got a fair amount of criticism at first because of the changes in characterization.

''Castle of Cagliostro'' is famous for being Miyazaki's first film (as well as one of his only two non-Ghibli films, the other being ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', both of which predated the studio's founding), but a couple of its scenes achieved their own fame. The car chase at the beginning of the film was allegedly praised by Creator/StevenSpielberg as one of the greatest car chases ever set to film, and he's alleged to have called ''Cagliostro'' one of the greatest adventure movies of all time.[[note]] According to various sources (apparently none of whom had anything to do [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q915AS3CL.jpg with Manga video's DVD packaging]]), Spielberg never actually ''saw'' the film.[[/note]] The other famous scene is the climactic battle-and-chase in Cagliostro's clock tower; at least [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries two groups]] of [[WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective American animators]] ''have'' paid direct {{homage}} to it.

* BigFancyCastle: The titular castle.
* BikerBabe: ActionGirl Fujiko drives away in her motorcycle with the Gothic Bill plates in her bags.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Minor, but still there: in the Japanese audio Lupin is able to recognize that the bills stolen from the casino in the prologue are Goat Bills and also has some knowledge of the country of Cagliostro (including the "urban legend" thieves have that it's a place from which no criminal has come back from) while in the English and Spanish audio Lupin doesn't seem to know anything about either, removing a pretty hefty piece of {{Foreshadowing}}.

* ArtisticLicenceGeography: In at least one dub, Cagliostro is described as the world's smallest country, but many scenery shots make it clear that Cagliostro (even without counting the two massive lakes) is at least twice the size of the world's actual smallest country, UsefulNote/VaticanCity (the whole of which could snugly fit into Cagliostro Castle and its adjacent town).

* 20MinutesIntoThePast: A newspaper clipping Lupin is seen reading after his escape from the castle sets the year at 1968. Curiously, the original manga was already one year into serialization in Real Life.

* CoolCar: Lupin and Jigen drive a Fiat 500 "Bambino" that's been majorly souped-up. And Clarisse tried making her escape in a Citroën 2CV. Both models were originally considered low-end in their times, but have become beloved classics since. Creator/HayaoMiyazaki himself owns a 2CV.

* CoolCar: Lupin and Jigen drive a Fiat 500 "Bambino" that's been majorly souped-up. And Clarisse tried making her escape in a Citroën 2CV. Both models were originally considered low-end in their times, but have beloved classics since.

* CoolCar: Lupin and Jigen drive a Fiat 500 "Bambino" that's been majorly souped-up. And Clarisse tried making her escape in a Citroën 2CV.

* RealityEnsues:
** Even the Cagliostro palace guard's strength in numbers is no match for a well-trained army of Japanese police officers, who twice form a phalanx to defend against the palace guard and both times prove numerical superiority won't help you when you're up against a Japanese police force.
** Lupin has Zenigata TakeTheWheel of the autogyro during the rescue attempt, but Zenigata, who tries to warn Lupin that he doesn't really know how to fly it, is unable to maneuver well enough to pick everyone up properly afterwards, and the rescue fails.

* ExactWords: The film's DarkestHour ends when Fujiko telephones Inspector Zenigata about a critical fact – Lupin is planning to be at the Count's wedding… and although the cop is off the counterfeiting case, his standing orders to arrest the thief anywhere in the world ''are still in force''.

1979's ''The Castle of Cagliostro'', the first full-length feature film directed and largely written by ''[[Anime/LupinIIIGreenJacket Green Jacket]]''-era co-director Creator/HayaoMiyazaki (pre-[[Creator/StudioGhibli Ghibli]]), is a stand-alone entry in the [[LongRunner long-running]] ''Franchise/LupinIII'' franchise.

*** The film contains a number of "shout-outs" to Miyazaki's own previous work in [[Anime/LupinIIIGreenJacket the first TV series]] with Creator/IsaoTakahata. The plot structure of the movie borrows heavily from its tenth episode – which also involved counterfeiting and a clock tower – and there are a number of callbacks to other episodes as well; anyone who had seen the first series would have had ample reason for nostalgia.

* FamousLastWords: "Let me go! Let GO!" [[spoiler:Said by the Count of Cagliostro before he gets crushed by the big clock]].

* BlatantLies: [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Invoked by Zenigata]], in the Streamline dub, when he exposes the Count's counterfeiting ring on live television. First by leading Fujiko down into the cellar, where he [[LargeHam puts on a show]] of "accidentally" finding his printing presses.

** The Autogyro.

* ChekhovsSkill: A fairly subtle one – Lupin's long-jumping skills from the very beginning of the film.

* ClimbingClimax: Inside and outside the ClockTower.

* MythologyGag: See the Trope page for examples.

''Castle of Cagliostro'' is famous for being Miyazaki's first film, but a couple of its scenes achieved their own fame. The car chase at the beginning of the film was allegedly praised by Creator/StevenSpielberg as one of the greatest car chases ever set to film, and he's alleged to have called ''Cagliostro'' one of the greatest adventure movies of all time.[[note]] According to various sources (apparently none of whom had anything to do [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q915AS3CL.jpg with Manga video's DVD packaging]]), Spielberg never actually ''saw'' the film.[[/note]] The other famous scene is the climactic battle-and-chase in Cagliostro's clock tower; at least [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries two groups]] of [[WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective American animators]] ''have'' paid direct {{homage}} to it.

* RealityEnsues: Even the Cagliostro palace guard's strength in numbers is no match for a well-trained army of Japanese police officers, who twice form a phalanx to defend against the palace guard and both times prove numerical superiority won't help you when you're up against a Japanese police force.

* TheDragon: Jodo is not only the Count's second-in-command but also seems commands his squad of [[EliteMooks]]

* ChurchgoingVillain: One of the Count's henchmen is moved to cross himself when he sees the Bishop arriving.

* TheDragon: Jodo.

* DarkestHour: In the final third of the film, Lupin is wounded, bedridden, and hiding; Zenigata is taken off the counterfeiting case with the Interpol council refusing to accept his evidence; Clarisse is drugged and is about to be put into a forced marriage by the villainous Count who is sure he's won it all.