Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
6.8
This film stays very faithful to the original down to the smallest details, save for the kangaroo-rat that suddenly appears twenty minutes into the movie and subsequently follows Aladdin around, serving no purpose in the story but fulfilling the role of token animal mascot. The story takes some illogical and confusing jumps at the point where Aladdin begins to court the princess, and the extravagant animation that had characterised Toei films of the 60s, when Toei had the best animators around, had become a thing of the past long before this point; but this is still an above-average film, in large part because of the screenplay that stays so faithful to the original. The character designs are slightly more western-looking than one is accustomed to seeing in anime.
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Cast
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Kazuo Kitamura
Aladdin (voice)
Known for
Black Rain
Vengeance Is Mine
Keiko Suzuka
Princess Badral (voice)
Also in
The Tragedy in the Devil-Mask Village
Honor Thy Father
Kikuo Kaneuchi
The Wizard (voice)
Known for
Pitfall
Eros + Massacre
Reiko Nanao
Aladdin's Mother (voice)
Known for
Black Rain
Yoshisada Sakaguchi
Genie of the Ring (voice)
Known for
Record of Lodoss War
A Letter to Momo
Kazuo Kitamura
The Sultan / Genie of the Lamp (voice)
Kimihiro Reizei
Wazir's Son (voice)
Known for
Princess Mononoke
Madadayo
Takeshi Katō
Grand Wazir (voice)
Known for
High and Low
The Bad Sleep Well
Itaru Ose
Also in
Attack, Jun
The Phoenix
Yoshikatsu Kasai Director · Akira Miyazaki Screenplay
First release March 13, 1982 · Produced in Japan · Original title アラジンと魔法のランプ
Production
Toei Animation
Production
Japan
Produced in
Languages
Original title
アラジンと魔法のランプ
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · March 13, 1982
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Germany
December 24, 1983 · TV
Hungary
April 24, 1983 · Theatrical
Italy
December 23, 1984 · TV · Rete 4
Saudi Arabia
October 1, 1985 · TV · الفلم تم عرضه بين 1985 و 1986
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