This lavish, technically polished animated caper featuring the beloved gentleman thief of Japanese manga delivers high-octane entertainment but plays safe with the canon. As mainstream entertainment ...

Chances are, if you are a casual anime fan, you still probably know Lupin III. The character initially appeared in the late 1960s in a series of comic books by Kazuhiko Katō, who created Lupin under ...

Eye-popping action steals the show in “Lupin III: The First,” the first computer-animated feature entry in the classic franchise about the French gentleman thief and master of disguise. Casting the ...

Takashi Yamazaki patterned "Lupin III: The First" on Miyazaki, but also riffed on Indiana Jones to show his appreciation of '80s Hollywood. When Japanese VFX-wizard-turned-director Takashi Yamazaki ...

Lupin the Third, one of this generation's iconic and well-known manga and anime character, has buzzed in again on the online world. On Nov. 22, the title sequence of Lupin III: The First has finally ...

Lupin's first computer-generated adventures loses some of his franchise's romantic aura, but it would take more than that to steal his mojo. First conceived by the manga artist Monkey Punch (aka Katō ...

For writer/director Takashi Yamazaki, Lupin III: The First was an extraordinary opportunity, allowing him to craft his own adventures for a classic manga character. Based on a series created by Monkey ...

It's a big week for Lupin III fans. Earlier in the week, GKIDS tweeted out the first teaser for the upcoming English dub of Lupin III: The First, and now, another teaser has arrived. Check it out ...

Of all the iterations of the Japanese character Lupin III — the manga and the live-action films, the multiple TV runs, the animated specials, and the video games — the one that’s spread the furthest ...

Credit: Photo: Toho Co., Ltd. One of the many events radically altered by the COVID-19 pandemic is the annual Annecy International Animated Film Festival, a showcase for animated movies, television, ...