Master thief Lupin takes on a 3DCG heist in "Lupin III: The First." (© Monkey Punch / Lupin the 3rd Film Partners) During an early scene in “Lupin III: The First,” the titular master thief declares ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oscar-winning Miyazaki (“Spirited Away”) humanized the stylish Lupin in “Cagliostro” by making him a gallant hero as well, ...

It’s been over 50 years since the character of Arsène Lupin III was first brought to life in animated form in Masaaki Osumi’s Lupin the Third: Pilot Film. Despite the iconic gentleman thief’s penchant ...

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GKIDS has acquired the North American distribution rights to the film “Lupin the 3rd: The First,” a Japanese anime film based on the long-running character and franchise from the Monkey Punch manga ...

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 ...

The world of anime is filled with dashing rogues, including ones far cooler and smarter than Star Wars' Han Solo.

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 ...

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 ...