Just as Lupin constantly evades capture, this one somehow slipped under our radar when first announced, but apparently a live-action TV show based on Lupin III ’s Inspector Zenigata is set to begin next month. Yesterday at a press event for the series a few …Read more »
Thin, sleek and incredibly sharp: there’s just something cool about the katana. The history of the Japanese sword stretches back hundreds of years, and it’s no surprise modern Japanese books, movies and comics are full of characters who wield the katana. But who’s got the …Read more »
The antihero: far cooler than your average goody two shoes, this is the archetypal badass who takes no prisoners, cares about no one, and doesn’t have time to chat. Think Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , Mad Max or basically …Read more »
Lupin has a new feature film on the way, with Lupin the Third: Goemon Ishikawa's Spray of Blood set to open in Japan on February 4, 2017. Redline director Takeshi Koike helms the latest movie at TMS Entertainment, and a new 30-second preview was posted …Read more »
Discotek Media hopped on Facebook to announce plans to bring Lupin III Part IV to home video. The latest Italian adventure for Lupin and the gang is currently planned for a 2017 release, and will feature both Japanese language with English subtitles and English dub …Read more »
The opening. A classic anime trope, and a way for a series to show its stuff in a one minute, thirty-second montage of greatness. With hundreds of openings created every year, picking the top 10 of all time is a formidable challenge indeed, but readers …Read more »
(Almost) too sexy for TV. That’s this week’s theme over at ranking site Goo, where they’ve asked their readers to vote on a list of anime heroines who just skirt the limits of what’s acceptable on broadcast television. Who made the cut by wearing the …Read more »
Studio Ghibli producer Yoshiaki Nishimura (actually, ex-producer, as he made sure to point out in his apology) kicked up a ruckus last month when he declared that women are “realistic” as compared to “idealistic” men, making the former unsuitable for directing Ghibli films. Never mind …Read more »
Rumors have been swirling on this one for the last few weeks, but with an official announcement, it can no longer be denied: Gintama is coming to flesh-and-blood cinema in 2017. Shun Oguri, who appeared as Lupin in the live-action Lupin III film , as …Read more »
This current decade has been quite the phenomenal one for a character who made his anime debut roughly 45 years ago courtesy of an author whose pen name is ”Monkey Punch.” In the past six years alone Lupin the Third, anime’s greatest thief, has found …Read more »
This famous Lupin pasta didn't make the cut. Kids these days... Ever been watching anime when some delicious-looking item popped up on screen? Ever wished you could somehow enter the anime world and chomp down? You’re not alone. Anime pollsters Charapedia have asked their readers: …Read more »
For about a week this July, there will be nary a human male in sight on the stage at New York’s Lincoln Center. That’s where the Takarazuka Revue, Japan’s all-female musical theater troupe, are making their U.S. debut, performing Chicago (in Japanese) between July 20 …Read more »
Koji Morimoto. If you don’t know the name, well, you probably should. One of Japan’s premier animators, Morimoto is the director of shorts like The Animatrix ’s “Beyond,” Memories ’ “Magnetic Rose” and Noiseman Sound Insect , and key animator on dozens of brilliantly-animated films …Read more »
There's more Lupin the Third anime on the way on top of the currently-running TV anime. Nihon TV plans to air a new special called Lupin the Third: Italian Game on January 8, 2016. The two-hour special will be the first since November 2013's Princess …Read more »
The new Lupin the Third anime series is about to make its Japanese premiere on October 1, so Cinema Today shared the opening movie that features the latest take on Yuji Ohno's iconic theme song. Yep, that pretty much ticks all the boxes for a …Read more »
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