Rupan sansei: Otakara henkyaku dai-sakusen!! (2003) (TV)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Jun Kawagoe

Writers:

Monkey Punch (creator)
Monkey Punch (screenplay)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime

Tagline:

Lupin the 3rd: Operation Return the Treasure

Plot:

Lupin is given a job to return 6 treasures to their original areas for an old friend of his, so Lupin can receive an even better treasure to gain.

Plot Keywords:

Treasure | Gaudí's Sagrada Familia | Samurai | Mafia

Cast

Makio Inoue	...	Goemon Ishikawa
Kiyoshi Kobayashi	...	Jigen Daisuke
Kanichi Kurita	...	Lupin the 3rd
Eiko Masuyama	...	Fujiko Mine
Gorô Naya	...	Inspector Zenigata
Kôichi Yamadera	...	Rats
Jôji Yanami	...	Mark Williams

Also Known As:

Lupin III: Operation Return the Treasure (International: English title)

Runtime:

Japan:90 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-PG

Company:

TMS Entertainment

Trivia:

The fifteenth Lupin the 3rd TV Movie.

Movie Connections:

References Ocean's Eleven (2001)

To see the special treasure Lupin must return 6 stolen treasures.

After pulling a heist at a Moscow Casino, Lupin and Jigen went to visit Mark Williams. An old thief that Lupin knew well. Only to find that Mark has past away recently. Lupin and Jigen then went to Mark's estate to find the Trick Diamond. Which wasn't there. That Diamond is a key to opening the secret treasure of Gaudí's famous "Park Gruell".

However they were met by Fujiko who showed them a prerecord message from Mark when he was still alive. Mark tells Lupin that if he could replace 6 of the items with the copies, Mark had stolen then he'll find the Trick Diamond. But Lupin has 7 days to accomplish this request.

So Lupin accepts the request and receives a digital camera from Fujiko so he could take a picture of each item in it's original place.

The adventure begins as Lupin travels throughout Europe to return the treasures to their rightful places. But there is a man named Rats who wants that Diamond for himself. So he hires some hit men to hunt down Lupin's gang and try to kill them. But it'll take more than that to stop Lupin from doing a favor for a deceasist friend.

Operation: Return the Treasure is a pretty good Lupin the 3rd TV special. The animation is very similar to "Episode 0: The First Contact". And the story is unique with action, humor, realistic scenery, and never a dull moment.

It's another yet to be in English Lupin title. You're able to see it only in fan subs at the moment.