>>111853309I think Lupin has more in common with James Bond than anything; it comes the same period that gave us Golgo 13 and Space Adventure Cobra. It tends to be more than just a detective thriller.
>>111863054The Woman Called Fujiko Mine was the first Lupin television series in nearly thirty years; people like to complain about its mature themes, words like "exploitation" gets thrown around a lot especially with regards to its sequel films but it's still a nice, short entry-point to counterbalance Hayao Miyazaki's take on it from 1979. Without it we wouldn't have Parts IV and V, nor this CG film.