Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (movie)

Scenes from Castle of Cagliostro and a few scenes from Lupin III: The Secret of Mamo were used to make the laser disc based arcade game Cliff Hanger, released in 1983.

The live-action French movie with Romain Duris is also based on the original LeBlanc story, but appears to borrow many of the same modern stylistic elements of the Miyazaki film.

The animation in the film was said to have "inspired" many scenes from Disney's "The Great Mouse Detective".

Lupin's car is a Fiat 500, Clarisse drove a Citroen 2CV, and Zenigata's police car is a Nissan Bluebird. The truck Zenigata's men were using was a 1943 Canadian GM Military Pattern. In the car chase scene, the car driven by the MIBs (Men In Black) is a 1940 Humber Super Snipe.

The last 20 minutes of "The Wonderful World of Puss N Boots" was considered to be a prototype for this film.

The Count was based off of Giuseppe Balsamo who used the alias of Count Alessandro di Cagliostro. He lived from June 02, 1743 – August 26, 1795 and was known to be an occultist as well as a counterfeiter.

The German VHS release by VCL was cut by around 16 minutes. The DVD release from Anime Virtual however is uncut.

The remastered Manga Entertainment Region 1 DVD release in 2006 features an edited opening titles sequence that uses stills from the animation. This was apparently done at the request of TMS to remove the Japanese-language titles and credits.

The plot was derived from episode 11 of the Green Jacket series.

The only theatrical Lupin III movie to take place in the 1960s.

The first Lupin III anime to be released in the USA.

The first Lupin anime to be released on VHS in the US.

Due to misidentification, Richard Epcar is credited with providing the voice of Goemon for the Animaze/Manga dub in the credits of the older home video releases. The voice of Goemon was actually provided by Michael Gregory, who was finally credited for the role on Discotek's Blu-ray release.

According to Hayao Miyazaki, Cagliostro's geography and architecture are heavily based on 1960s Italian cities situated in the mountains and on the river Tiber.

During recording, Hayao Miyazaki told Yasuo Yamada to be more subdued, like Clint Eastwood. Yamada retorted, "Leave Lupin to me! I'll decide how he is." Miyazaki was incensed by Yamada's arrogant attitude. The film's character designer, Yasuo Otsuka, advised Miyazaki, "Yasuo is being cheeky, so let's take it down." By the time he had finished watching the preview, Yamada apologized and bowed ruefully to Miyazaki.

This is the only Hayao Miyazaki film to have not been scored by Joe Hisaishi.