Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro Film's MX4D Screenings Earn 21 Million Yen in 3 Days

Posted: January 26, 2017, 01:00 | 411 views in: Anime News

Hayao Miyazaki's 1st feature film screening at 17 theaters

MX4D screenings of Hayao Miyazaki's 1979 Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro anime film began on Friday, January 20. The film sold 9816 tickets in its first three days at 17 theaters and earned 21,595,200 yen (about US$190,000). Tickets were sold out at TOHO Cinemas Shinjuku for the weekend.

With the 4DX or MX4D systems, certain theaters have motion seats that move in sync with certain action sequences onscreen. Similarly, effects such as scents, wind, and mist will operate in accordance with the action onscreen.

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. The remastered version is serving as the base or the film's MX4D screenings.

Discotek Media released the film with three separate English dub tracks on a 35th Anniversary Edition DVD in January 2015, and on Blu-ray Disc in June 2015.

Streamline Pictures originally released the film on VHS and Laserdisc in the U.S. in the 1990s. Manga Entertainment then re-dubbed the film and released it on DVD in 2000 and again in 2006.

Source: Animation Business (Tadashi Sudo)

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