The best Ichirō Nagai’s comedy movies

Ichirō Nagai

Ichirō Nagai

10/05/1931- 27/01/2014
We present our ranking of the best Ichirō Nagai’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Ichirō Nagai.
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Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro

Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
7.6/10
After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but a large amount of expertly crafted counterfeit bills, he decides to track down the forgers responsible—and steal any other treasures he may find in the Castle of Cagliostro, including the 'damsel in distress' he finds imprisoned there.

Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer

Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
7.4/10
As the perpetually lecherous Ataru and his friends prepare for a carnival at Tomobiki High School, they gradually realize the days are literally repeating themselves. Any effort to break the pattern dumps them back where they started.

Urusei Yatsura: Only You

Urusei Yatsura: Only You
6.7/10
Six-year-old Ataru steps on Elle's shadow during an impromptu game of shadow-tag; in Elle's culture, this is viewed as a marriage proposal. Eleven years later, Elle returns to Earth in order to marry Ataru — by which time not only had he forgotten the events of his childhood, but he was also going out with Lum. The rest of the plot focuses on Lum's attempts to prevent the marriage. The film was directed by Mamoru Oshii who was mad at the many requests that the producer made of him to alter the movie. Rumiko Takahashi considers this film her favorite and it is the most true to the original series.

Animal Treasure Island

Animal Treasure Island
7/10
A Japanese adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, featuring animals as the majority of the cast. By chance Jim comes upon a map of Treasure Island. He leaves the port accompanied by Glan, the rat and Bub, the baby on a strange looking boat of his own make to look for the island. Pirates soon find him and adventure ensues.

Urusei Yatsura: Remember My Love

Urusei Yatsura: Remember My Love
6.6/10
The third film finds Ataru transformed into a pink hippopotamus, which sends Lum chasing after the wicked magician responsible, with catastrophic results. With Lum gone, her friends decide that there is no reason to remain, and so Tomobiki slowly returns to normal. The highlight of the film is a high speed chase scene with an angry Lum flying after the mysterious Ruu through the city at night and into a hall of mirrors (and illusion ). Ataru's true feelings for Lum are probably more obvious in this film than any of the others.

Urusei Yatsura 4: Lum the Forever

Urusei Yatsura 4: Lum the Forever
6.4/10
The basic plot is centered on the great cherry tree Tarōzakura and what happens after it is cut down during the making of a movie, Lum loses her horns-and her powers! Thus begins the strangest and most lyrical of the Urusei Yatsura movies. The fourth film is the subject of much debate, as it is probably the hardest of all the Urusei Yatsura films to fully understand. Many consider it to be a multi-layered masterpiece, while others feel it is little more than a confused and rambling mess.

Urusei Yatsura 5: The Final Chapter

Urusei Yatsura 5: The Final Chapter
7/10
The fifth film is an animated adaptation of the final story of the manga and is also the official ending of the anime series, in which Lum and Ataru must repeat the game of tag played out in the first episode of the television series, or the Earth will be infested with mushrooms larger than buildings. Further, should Ataru lose, Lum will leave forever and everyone's memories will be changed so that they don't remember she, or her friends, were ever there. Finally, Lum refuses to allow Ataru to win unless he says to her those three words "I love you," that he has steadfastly refused to say over the entire series.

Lupin the Third: Episode 0: First Contact

Lupin the Third: Episode 0: First Contact
7.6/10
Lupin is after mafia boss Galvez's single most precious treasure: the Clam of Helmeth, a green cylinder made of unbreakable metal, guarded by gunslinger Jigen. Also in purist of the Clam are a fellow thief named Brad and his partner, Fujiko. Meanwhile, Inspector Zenigata, paired with an American detective, has been dispatched by the Japanese police to hunt down and arrest Fujiko. On the other side of the world, samurai Goemon is seeking a sword worthy of his skills: one that's mysteriously connected to the treasure in Galvez's vault. Each party soon will be thrust together in epic adventure that tells how the Lupin gang first met!

Urusei Yatsura: Inaba the Dreammaker

Urusei Yatsura: Inaba the Dreammaker
7.7/10
It is summertime, and Shinobu laments not having a boyfriend. She then happens upon a young man weak from hunger, and wearing a rabbit costume. She gives him a carrot, he expresses his gratitude by hitting on her... and she hits back. The young man leaves behind a key to another dimension where everybody's possible futures exist. Lum and Ataru join Shinobu to find the bunny boy, and happy futures for themselves.

Mobile Suit SD Gundam's Counterattack

Mobile Suit SD Gundam's Counterattack
The first theatrically release of the SD Gundam series. Contains two shorts, "The Storm-Calling School Festival" and "The Tale of the SD Warring States: The Chapter of the Violent Final Sky Castle".

Urusei Yatsura: Goat and Cheese

Urusei Yatsura: Goat and Cheese
7.6/10
Mendou recounts an old story that warns, “Don’t take pictures in front of the statue of Great-Grandfather’s Goat, or terrible things will happen!” When his father does just that, only Sakura and Onsen-mark the Teacher can ward off the horrifying consequences of an ancient family curse… or can they?

Mobile Suit SD Gundam

Mobile Suit SD Gundam
A collection of short parodies of the Mobile Suit Gundam saga. Episode 1 pokes fun at key events that occurred during the One Year War. In episode 2, Amuro, Kamille and Judau fight over who runs the better pension when Char comes in to crash their party. Episode 3 is the SD Olympics, an array of athletic events pitting man with mobile suit.

MAROKO

MAROKO
7.8/10
Theatrical anime movie created from the OVA 'Gosenzosama Banbanzai', written and directed by Mamoru Oshii.

One Pound Gospel

One Pound Gospel
6.9/10
Hatanaka Kosaku is a young boxer who has a major flaw, he can't stop eating. That weakness puts him into into heavier weight classes that put him against stronger boxers and even worse, he's prone to throw up when he gets a body blow, which drives potential opponents away. His coach is at his wit's end as he struggles to get this idiot to show some discipline in his training. The matter is complicated when a young nun feeds the "starving" boy after she finds him fainted on the streets during his enforced fast. She learns of her mistake and she tries to help him get ready for a fight, but his weakness for food and the odd relationship they share don't makes things easy.

Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk II

Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk II
Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk. II delivers with more tongue-in-cheek humor than the first series. In "The Rolling Colony Affair," a colony is hosting a cabaret show featuring the girls of Gundam. But the show turns disastrous when men and mobile suits go crazy over the girls, sending the colony rolling out of control. A parody of the videogame RPG genre, "Gundam Legend" has Amuro, Kamille and Judau sent on a perilous quest to rescue the princess of the Zeta Kingdom from Char Aznable and his vicious Zeon MS forces.

The Panda's Great Adventure

The Panda's Great Adventure
6.4/10
A young panda prince is found unworthy by his mother the Queen, and expelled from the forest. In his journey, he battles dangerous enemies and gets captures and forced to work in a circus.

Spooky Kitaro

Spooky Kitaro
Movie based on the 1985 TV anime.

What's Michael? 2

What's Michael? 2
What's Michael is a set of episodic stories about the lives of cats and their owners, there is no continuity from episode to episode. Michael goes into heat so his owners buy him a mate. Michael, Popo and their kittens attack a teddy bear that has invaded their house. Michale catches the fleas. The Freyman Reaction is explained.

Urusei Yatsura: Terror of Girly-Eyes Measles

Urusei Yatsura: Terror of Girly-Eyes Measles
7.5/10
Ten gives Ataru an alien disease, the contagious "Girl Measles," (which makes the victim's eyes turn big and twinkly, like the eyes of young girls in much of manga and anime), and when Ataru's girl-hunting spreads the virus all over Tomobiki Town, chaos ensues!

What's Michael?

What's Michael?
Michael is a cat - with a difference. He lives with a cartoonist and his wife and does his best to keep his cool amid the trials of everyday life in suburbia, like fussing human girls, the local tough cat Nyazilla - just like big grey lizard, a foe too fearsome to take risks with - and the females of his own species.

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