If there’s one thing we need at the end of the horrible and interminable year that is 2020, it’s a rip-snorting, globetrotting adventure. Obviously we can’t really do that at the moment, so it’s up to ...

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 ...

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 ...

During an early scene in “Lupin III: The First,” the titular master thief declares thieving isn’t something you do half-heartedly. That Lupin relishes being who he is and doing what he does is part of ...

Lupine III is the grandson of the famous phantom thief Arséne Lupin. He is an elusive master thief who always steals his target prey. His brain is a genius, and his gun skills are top-notch, but his ...

Lupin III: The First was first published in December 2019 when it was released theatrically in Japan. The film is now available on digital download and will be released on Blu-ray + DVD on January 12, ...

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 ...

Yuji Ohno is a Japanese jazz musician. Ohno is known for his musical scoring of Japanese anime television series, particularly Lupin III, and most famously the 1977 series Lupin III Part II and the ...

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 ...