Two years after the birth of the manga a pilot film was realized. It was a brief film of only 15 minutes that had the purpose of assay the response to a possible future anime realization of Lupin III. The pilot opens with a challenge call from Lupin to Zenigata from a public phone.
Note: A remastered version was realised in 1978, re-photographed in cinemascope and re-dubbed…
Kobayashi Kiyoshi
Related works
Dr. Watson has a dream: a thinking, feeling robot. The planetary governor, on the other hand, wants nothing short of the power the ruins of the past civilization represents.
Source: ANN
It is UC 0123. To build Cosmo Babylonia, a space nation ruled by aristocrats, Crossbone Vanguard, the private army of the Ronah's, attacks Earth Federation colony Frontier IV. When his peaceful homeland is destroyed, high school student Seabook Arno pilots the latest model of Gundam, the Gundam F91, and joins the resistance.
* Based on a seinen manga by Monkey Punch, originally serialised in Weekly Manga Action.
Many people are falling prey to a suspicious new religion. Lupin III infiltrates this group, hoping to steal the treasure their leader keeps hidden. There he lays eyes on the beautiful, bewitching woman who has the leader enthralled.
Source: ANN
Note: This is how fashionable female…
Lupin and Jigen have just pulled off another million-dollar heist - only to find out that all one million dollars of it are counterfeit money from Cagliostro! Cagliostro has supplied the world with counterfeit money of all nationalities for decades, only surviving because of the global economy's strong dependence on the faux dough.
Shortly after crossing Cagliostro's borders…
The never-ending adventures of Lupin Sansei continues, as once again he travels the world pulling off any heist he can think of, while being assisted by the cool gunslinger Jigen Daisuke, the stoic swordsman Ishikawa Goemon, and from time-to-time by the beautiful femme fatale Mine Fujiko, when she isn't backstabbing him in order to get money and treasures for herself. But as…
Lupin III chronicles the adventures of Arsène Lupin Sansei, the world's greatest thief, and his partners in crime: master marksman Jigen Daisuke, beautiful and scheming Mine Fujiko and stoic samurai Ishikawa Goemon XIII. Lupin and his gang travel around the globe in search of the world's greatest treasures and riches and always keeping one step ahead of the tireless Inspector…
The famous Lupin and his motley crew join forces with the young Laetitia to steal Bresson's diary, a treasure that even the famous Arsène Lupin, his grandfather, had never managed to steal.
Source: Annecy
* Based on Tanaka Yoshiki's series of science fiction novels by the same name.
It is late into the 36th century in the ancient Christian calendar; mankind, having developed the technology to travel faster than light speed and colonize many planets, has taken a hold of space, to the point of abandoning Earth almost entirely. Two superpowers comprising almost all the human…
Arsène Lupin Sansei is the grandson of the master thief Arsène Lupin. With his cohorts Jigen Daisuke and Ishikawa Goemon XIII and his love interest Mine Fujiko, he pulls off the greatest heists of all time while always escaping the grasp of Inspector Zenigata Kouichi.
Source: ANN
Note: Before the first series started, there was Lupin III Pilot film which was about 12 minutes…