Craig

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IAMTW-Nominated Author

Author of the Battletech Novels, Icons of War and Elements of
Treason: Duty

Co-author of Four Outcast Ops novels -- African Firestorm, Red Ice,
Watchlist, and Shadow Government.

Like many good stories, it asks a question: "can there be heroes in the modern world?" And the answer by the end is made heartwarmingly clear: hell yes.

"Lupin and Zenigata are great because the character dynamic of a roguish thief who’s a dick but not such a dick he’s actually evil and the force of law who looks bumbling and incompetent but only because he’s chasing after the greatest criminal in history and mops the floor with anyone in a ten yard radius otherwise, and when all these world shaking schemes by criminal masterminds end up as little detours in the endless chase between the two, it’s just bellissimo."

I see that.

You watch, we'll get a translation at some point and it'll turn out the film is called Lupin III the First, just to be even more "huh?"-worthy. Kind of like how Ultraman in the 2004 theatrical movie was called "Ultraman the Next". (There was sort of an explanation for that in the movie, but... only sort of. :)

Anyway, looks interesting. The trailer doesn't look like the film is as uncanny as the CG Tintin movie from a few years ago, which was sort of disappointingly Not There Yet animation-wise. Mind you, I'm pretty sure Castle of Cagliostro is literally the only Lupin III thing I've ever seen, and that was at least 20 years ago, so I only vaguely know who everyone is (beyond the fact that the makers of the trailer thoughtfully included all their names :), but still.

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Pretty sure this is the case. My Japanese could be charitably called "rudimentary", but the character that's three horizontal lines is almost certainly the "Third" (or part thereof) of his name.

dbrandon

google translate says the youtube video title is Movie "Lupin III THE FIRST" notice so...

Aren't the original episodes at least a little bit anachronistic tech-wise anyway? I didn't see anything in the trailer that really jumped out at me, although a better look at the big plane that was shooting at the biplane would help. Looks a bit like a cross between a B-36 and the Spruce Goose.

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Well...

Their car looks to be a Fiat Nuova 500, which weren't made before 1957. I don't know the make or model of the cop cars, but just eyeballing their general styling, they look like they're probably from the early-to-mid '60s.

(Also, in her title card, Fujiko seems to have an Uzi, which likewise can't be much older than about 1956.)

This part is just speculation, but given that the title character debuted in 1967 and the film is called The First, I'm going to guess it's probably set then, or at least that the producers were going for an aesthetic suggestive of that period.

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That made me go back to the car chase scene from Castle of Cagliostro, to get a better look at Lupin's car. It's the same on the outside, anyhow.

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>This part is just speculation, but given that the title character
>debuted in 1967 and the film is called The First, I'm going to
>guess it's probably set then, or at least that the producers were
>going for an aesthetic suggestive of that period.
>

Perhaps they're making a prequel, and the full title was going to be something like, Lupin III: The First Adventure, until one of the studio execs thought that was a bit too unwieldy.

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(nod) I remember that. The "most powerful Belv... in the world" shtick in OWaW is a nod to Lupin's car in that scene. That's the only Lupin thing I've seen, but I imagine it's probably a signature thing, like characters' cars in that kind of fiction often are (e.g., Rally's Cobra in Gunsmith Cats, Jim Rockford's Firebird, and on and on).

Anyway, what I was mostly noting about its presence in the trailer is that that means they probably haven't set it in, say, the 1930s—unless they're just going for an atemporal the-style-is-the-important-thing setting, like the Crimson Lizard and New Century Zatōichi movies in the UF universe. :)

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Me, I am ENTIRELY un-knowledgable about Lupin beyond Google...but, that is an EPIC car, I will agree.

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Careful study of the trailer shows they kept the same car design, down to the doors.

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Any yes, for the record, I never got through the car chase scene myself.

"Cagliostro"

https://vimeo.com/39790868

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