![]() ![]() The haunting guitar riffs opens to a shot of someone standing over a gravestone. ![]() Reviewed by lost-in-limbo 8 / 10 Loving these new incarnations of Lupin the 3rd. They did better in the next entry and better still in the third, which put the focus back on Fujiko, but this one, while entertaining and with some good sequences, is about as much a sequel to A Woman Called Fujiko Mine as if you made a sequel to Citizen Kane that was characters in the film doing a "weekend at Bernie's" with Charles Foster Kane's corpse. (Not only that, the rape-ish scene that is her main appearance makes absolutely no sense in the wider context of the video.)įujiko's role here seems like a slap in the face of the series, as though the men who took over from the woman-created Fujiko series wanted to slap Fujiko back into her role as sexy-generic-woman. It's entertaining nonsense about Lupin and Jigen facing an impossibly skilled assassin, but it's also somewhat of a betrayal of the Fujiko series, in that the strong, smart, capable woman has now been reduced to a naked damsel in distress. This hour-long video was billed as a continuation of this incarnation of the Lupin III franchise. It was also a work of art that kept viewers off balance and built something extraordinary. The TV series A Woman Called Fujiko Mine was a darker, sexier take on Lupin III. Reviewed by cherold 7 / 10 Good for what it is, bad for a follow up to a brilliant series It is said that Okuzaki prepares graves for his targets before executing his kills - and he has prepared a grave for Jigen. Despite the civil war brewing between East and West Doroa, Lupin and Jigen still go ahead, but during the heist Jigen almost gets killed by a renowned sniper named Yael Okuzaki. ![]() The country has fortified its border after a singer named Queen Malta got assassinated in the neighboring country of West Doroa upon visit. Lupin and Jigen sneak into the country of East Doroa to steal its valuable treasure the Little Comet. ![]()
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