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Japanese Film Festival Screens Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro, 3 Detective Conan Films in India
posted on by Adriana Hazra
The Indian Facebook page for the Japanese Film Festival (JFF) announced on Saturday that it will screen the 4K remaster of Hayao Miyazaki's 1979 Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro anime film during the JFF India 2023. The festival will also screen:
- Detective Conan: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital
- Detective Conan the movie: The Last Wizard of the Century (Case Closed: The Last Magician of the Century)
- Detective Conan Episode "One" (Detective Conan - Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small)
The Japan Foundation will host the festival in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Bengaluru, and Kolkata.
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro was the first feature film Miyazaki directed, and it features the master thief Lupin the Third, created by the manga artist Monkey Punch. In the film, Lupin and Jigen search for a counterfeiter who swindled them, and end up in the secluded country of Cagliostro. The story also involves a wicked count and an innocent princess (the latter voiced in Japanese by Sumi Shimamoto, who would play Miyazaki's heroine Nausicaä five years later).
The film received a remastered edition that screened in theaters in Japan in May 2014. That remastered edition served as the base for new MX4D screenings in Japan in January 2017.
Source: JFF's Indian Facebook page
