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A brand new animated Lupin III feature film will be screening for a limited time in Japan this June. The film will run for 51 minutes in total and is a direct sequel to the 2012 spin-off show, The Woman Called Fujiko Mine.
Takeshi Koike (character designer for The Woman Called Fujiko Mine and director of Redline) will be directing the film. Many of the animators behind Redline will be joining him as well as James Shimoji, who will be composing the films soundtrack.
Jigen will be once again voiced by the legendary Kiyoshi Kobayashi. Kobayashi, who recently celebrated his 81st birthday, has been voicing the character for over forty years.
The film will air in cinemas between the 21st to the 27th of June.
Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine centered on the character Fujiko Mine, and depicted her and the rest of the Lupin III cast during their younger days. Koike said of the new film, “I wanted to try to depict how Lupin and Jigen became partners.”
Yu Kiyozono (Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, Lupin the 3rd: Green vs Red) is producing the film. Kiyozono said of the project, “Since The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, I have been thinking that I want to continue to create even more spinoffs with a new, cool Lupin III.”
The film will have a limited special screening at Tokyo’s Shinjuku Wald 9 theatre in early summer.