Apprentice magician kidnaps people to turn them into human-shaped building...

bash_bob

I have a memory of watching a movie on TV when I was a kid. I wasn't familiar with anime at the time, but looking back I believe it was anime. I would have watched it sometime between 1982 and 1986 on broadcast TV in Cleveland, OH. The plot focused on a man who was an apprentice magician or sorcerer. His master made him kidnap people, who would then be transformed into roughly human-shaped building blocks that the sorcerer then used to expand...

Originally asked by Jon Capps on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Sounds like Unico in the Island of Magic The summary on Wikipedia only mentions the block people being used as slaves, but they certainly look like they could be used as the walls in a castle. Otherwise, you still have the evil wizard and the young apprentice working to protect his sister while turning people into blocks.

Full answer by sweetdee: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/8608 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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