Cleopatra (1970 film)

Cleopatra
Japanese VHS cover for Osamu Tezuka's "Cleopatra".
Kana	クレオパトラ
Rōmaji	Kureopatora
Directed by	Eiichi Yamamoto Osamu Tezuka
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 date(s)	September 15, 1970
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. When the film was released in the United States, American distributors changed the title to Cleopatra: Queen of Sex and released it with a self-applied X rating in an attempt to repeat the success of Fritz the Cat. However, Cleopatra had not been submitted to the MPAA, and may not have received an X rating if it had been. One critic described it as "kid stuff with naked breasts."^[1]

See also

• Osamu Tezuka
• List of Osamu Tezuka anime
• Animerama

References

1. ^ Michael Barrier (1972/73). "The Filming of Fritz the Cat". Funnyworld, Nos. 14 and 15. http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Funnyworld/FritzPartOne/FritzOne.htm. Retrieved 2007-01-15. 

External links

• Cleopatra at TezukaOsamu@World
• Cleopatra at TezukaOsamu@World (Japanese)
• Cleopatra (1970 film) at the Internet Movie Database
• Cleopatra (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia