Lupin III: The Fuma Conspiracy [UK] (Sub.VHS)

Release date: 1995-01-23
Suggested retail price: $12.99
Age rating: PG

SKU: WEST-027
EAN: 5021904002704 5021904002704

Description:
Cartoonist Monkey Punch created the characters of the LUPIN III saga in the sixties, inspired by the massive popularity of the James Bond filmed and the original charmer Arsene Lupin - the great jewel thief who operated on Côte d'Azur in early thirties.
By the time Yasuo Otsuka directed Monkey Punch's team in this charming caper movie in 1987, other influences - notably that of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas - are as strong as that of the original inspiration, and the film is a thoroughly enjoyable pastiche of Japanese and Western cultural references whose overriding sense of fun has an almost quaint innocence underlying its sophistication.
Stoic samurai Goemon Ishikawa is marrying Suminawa Murasaki, but when the bride is kidnapped by the rival Fuma clan, criminal mob trying to get their hands on an ancient family treasure, the whole gang gets involved. Masayuki Oseki's dynamic animation keeps things moving along at a cracking pace, and the sequence that shows the ravishing Fujiko in scarlet leathers on a red motorbike proves beyond doubt that Pirss Asagiri of BUBBLEGUM CRISIS isn't the only biker queen in anime!

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