Cleopatra (1970 film)

Cleopatra
Japanese VHS cover for Osamu Tezuka's "Cleopatra".
Directed by	Osamu Tezuka Eiichi Yamamoto
Produced by	Osamu Tezuka Yasuhiko Yoneyama
Written by	Shigemi Satoyoshi
Starring	Chinatsu Nakayama
Music by	Isao Tomita
Cinematography	Tsuyoshi Honda
Distributed by	Nippon Herald Movies
Release dates	September 15, 1970 (1970-09-15)
Running time	112 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Cleopatra (クレオパトラ, Kureopatora) is a 1970 Japanese anime film directed by Osamu Tezuka and Eiichi Yamamoto. The film was a commercial failure. In 1972, Mushi Productions, who made the film, accepted a deal with Xanadu Productions, a small company, to release an English-dubbed version in the United States to try to save themselves from bankruptcy. When it was released in the United States, Xanadu changed the title to Cleopatra: Queen of Sex and released it with a self-applied X-rating on April 24, 1972. It was advertised as the first X-rated pornographic animated movie in the United States. However, Fritz the Cat came out with its X-rating from the MPAA before it on April 18, 1972. The English version and the original version were not received well by critics and audiences due to it failing as a pornographic movie and many other reasons. Cleopatra was not submitted to the MPAA, and may not have received an X-rating if it had been. The English dub and subtitled version is said to be lost, however, a subtitled version can be found on YouTube. DVDs of the film do exist.

Cast

• Chinatsu Nakayama as Cleopatra
• Hajime Hana as Julius Caesar
• Osami Nabe as Marcus Antonius
• Jitsuko Yoshimura as Libya
• Tsubame Yanagiya as Rupa
• Nobuo Tsukamoto as Ionius
• Kazuko Imai as Calpania
• Susumu Abe as Cabagonis
• Yoshirō Katō as Chief Tarabahha
• Nachi Nozawa as Octavian

See also

• Osamu Tezuka
• List of Osamu Tezuka anime
• Animerama

External links

• Cleopatra at IMDb
• Cleopatra (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia