Parents Guide for
Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro (1979) More at IMDbPro »

There is no nudity in the film. Subtle joking references are made about Lupin's on-again, off-again romance with Fujiko Mine, and there is a flashback scene showing Lupin grinning leeringly as a woman sits in his lap at a casino. At the end, Clarisse gestures that she wants to share a passionate kiss with Lupin. Lupin demurrs, instead kissing her chastely and platonically on the forehead.

Lupin does accuse the Count of being a pedophile (in both the Japanese original and English translation) during the wedding sequence, though the character seems to have no sexual designs on Clarisse (who is depicted as being in her middle teens), instead just wanting control of the treasure.

There is quite a considreable amount of gunplay and swashbuckling fighting action, but relatively little blood. Only two scenes of note are in the film. In one scene, as Lupin is about to escape with Clarisse, he is shot down and gravely wounded when the Count's men open fire with a machine gun. A trickle of blood runs from underneath Lupin's unconscious body. Later, the Count himself is crushed to death by a out-of-control tower clock. The scene is shown from afar, and all that can be seen is the clock's hands joining together, with a wet snapping sound as the Count is crushed.

There are some uses of the words "Chikusho" (roughly "damn it") and "Kuso" (literally "shit"). The Manga Entertainment dub of the film replaces many milder expletives with much rougher alternatives.

Daisuke Jigen is almost always seen with a cigarette in his mouth, and many of the other characters smoke to excess as well (Lupin's car's ashtray is shown to be full of cigarette butts). Lupin, during a sequence where he is trying to gorge himself to get his strength back after nearly dying, is seen to drink down an entire bottle of wine.

A large part of the middle section of the film is taken up with Lupin and Zenigata trapped in an oubliette, where the remains of many who had tried to discover the secret of the Counts of Cagliostro had breathed their last are scattered. One part of this sequence has Lupin and Zenigata drerssing up skeletons in their clothing to scare pursuers. This could be frightening to young children.

Another potentially frightening scene is one in which the Count's minions attack Lupin and Co. The appearance of the minions may be scary to younger viewers.