Cleopatra (1970 film)

Cleopatra (Japanese: クレオパトラ, Hepburn: Kureopatora) is a 1970 Japanese anime fantasy film directed by Osamu Tezuka and Eiichi Yamamoto. The film is the second part of Mushi Production's adult-oriented Animerama trilogy, following A Thousand and One Nights (1969) and preceding Belladonna of Sadness (1973).

Cleopatra
Japanese film poster
Japanese name
Kanjiクレオパトラ
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnKureopatora
Directed by
Screenplay byShigemi Satoyoshi
Story byOsamu Tezuka
Produced byYasuhiko Yoneyama
Starring
CinematographyKatsuji Misawa
Edited byMasashi Furukawa
Music byIsao Tomita
Production
company
Mushi Production
Distributed byNippon Herald Films
Release dates
  • September 15, 1970 (1970-09-15) (Japan)
  • April 24, 1972 (1972-04-24) (New York)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

The film was a critical and commercial failure. A manga adaptation of the film, also from Tezuka and Hisashi Sakaguchi, was released later that same year in October exclusively in COM, and was reprinted in late 2018.

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