First conceived by the manga artist Monkey Punch (aka Katō Kazuhiko) in 1967, the impish and uncatchable gentleman thief Lupin the Third has since been the subject of six animated television series, 13 features, and nearly three dozen OVAs and specials, to say nothing of the various albums, video games, and fully produced musicals — plural! — that have been made about the character along the way. And while that 53-year-stretch has seen our slippery hero change styles a handful of times (the difference between how he’s drawn in the Adult Swim-approved “Lupin the Third Part II” and 2012’s “The Woman Called Fujiko Mine” is akin to the difference between Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig), Lupin hasn’t really aged a day.
Follow any character around the same idyllic and playful post-war environments for half a century and they’ll start to feel timeless, but even Lupin’s rare excursions into more...
Follow any character around the same idyllic and playful post-war environments for half a century and they’ll start to feel timeless, but even Lupin’s rare excursions into more...
- 10/20/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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