

Lupin III: Island of Assassins
ルパン三世『ワルサーP38』
Zenigata arrives at the birthday party of an important politician to investigate a fake Lupin calling card. Lupin shows up as well. Suddenly, masked assassins break in and begin to shoot everything that moves. Zenigata goes after Lupin amidst all the gunfire and corners him in the courtyard of the house. Suddenly, a hand holding a Walther P-38 pops out of a window and shoots Zenigata in the chest. Lupin recognizes the Walther as his own and decides to investigate. The assassins that attacked the party are from a hidden island called the Island of Assassins. The island is kept secret by the help of top government officials from around the world who use the assassins on the island for their own personal gains. There are lots of hidden secrets on the island, however, and Lupin, Goemon, Jigen, and Fujiko find themselves involved in a plot that tears the residents of the island in half. The movie also delves into Lupin's past in his pre-Jigen days. (Source: ANN)
Zenigata arrives at the birthday party of an important politician to investigate a fake Lupin calling card. Lupin shows up as well. Suddenly, masked assassins break in and begin to shoot everything that moves. Zenigata goes after Lupin amidst all the gunfire and corners him in the courtyard of the house. Suddenly, a hand holding a Walther P-38 pops out of a window and shoots Zenigata in the chest. Lupin recognizes the Walther as his own and decides to investigate. The assassins that attacked the party are from a hidden island called the Island of Assassins. The island is kept secret by the help of top government officials from around the world who use the assassins on the island for their own personal gains. There are lots of hidden secrets on the island, however, and Lupin, Goemon, Jigen, and Fujiko find themselves involved in a plot that tears the residents of the island in half. The movie also delves into Lupin's past in his pre-Jigen days. (Source: ANN)
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Psycho_Sanji
October 5, 2009
Walther P-38 (Island of Assassins) is a damn good Lupin III adventure. A man commits a heinous crime using a Walther P-38 pistol much like the one Lupin has, along with a spooky group of assassins with spider tattoos. This leads Lupin and the gang to the foggy island of assassins. This is the most serious Lupin special, and also the most violent. It's an intriguing change of pace for Lupin, where he has a serious score to settle from his past. The less known about the plot going in the better, there are some nice twists. Lupin naturally takes a liking to a female assassin on theisland, she turns out to be one of the better guest leading ladies. The scenes between Lupin and her are pretty touching. The Lupin gang is here as well, with Jigen there to help his partner, Fujiko with a couple nice scenes, and of course Goemon with some great fighting. For the most part they're separate from Lupin in this one, as he is doing his own personal thing, but they do get some decent screen time. This has a comparatively more serious art style, and is pretty dark looking. The soundtrack by Yuji Ohno is also pretty intense. There's still some good comedy in this though, being Lupin, and Inspector Zenigata provides quite a few of those laughs. A really good thriller, I recommend giving this one a watch, Lupin fan or not.
LegionIscariot
December 21, 2023
Lupin travels to an island of assassins in order to get his silver Walther P38 which was stolen from him a long time ago. And while he’s there he’s gonna steal some gold too. But seeing how this is a Lupin story its Nazi gold. Lupin’s hand is branded with the Seal of Metatron 🕷️, a poison tattoo which will kill him if he’s away from the island for too long. All the assassins carry this poisoned tattoo. Its up to Lupin and some unlikely allies to find a way to escape the island and break the seal. The story focuses primarily on Lupin, and a female assassinwho dreams of freedom. The other characters are there too; Jigen, Goemon, Fujiko. Although Zenigata has a dramatic scene in the movie, for the most part he’s somewhere else and isnt involved much in the main story. Although it has that Lupin comedic tone. This is one of those more serious Lupin stories with consequences and death.
Ciaran_Zagami
April 7, 2022
A little better than the previous entry in this box set "Farewell Nostradamus" Be fore warned that this particular movie is A LOT more violent than usual. I gave up counting how many people die after fifteen on screen deaths complete with blood in the first few minutes alone. Not that I dislike violence (I mean just look at my watch list.) More that its a pretty big departure from the usual Lupin tone. Also Goemon still doesn't get to stab anyone, a dude puking out all his blood and collapsing in a massive pool of his own gore is okay but a sword? That's toomuch. It's not even like our heroes don't kill. Lupin straight up shoots a guy in the forehead and Jigen gets to shoot some people too. On a much lighter note this time the DVD version ISN'T ripped from a burnt/scratched film so that's a huge plus but it's still in a pretty poor aspect ratio with lots of compression. Other than that the animation is rock solid, though I think some of the new characters were drawn off model a few times and it looks really distracting. Most of the jokes land and the movie is overall very enjoyable despite the unusually dark tone. The plot is weirdly similar to the last James Bond film "No Time to Die" There's an island that has a lab on it that used to be run by some secret military unit and the main character gets injected with a bio-weapon that forces him to stay on said island. I guess someone is a Lupin fan? There's actually a pretty huge plot hole because that bioweapon is a MAJOR plot element and at the end Lupin just leaves the island with no cure or anything. I wanna say its a plot hole but Lupin also claims to be able to make his own cure? Somehow? I guess? I have no idea. Maybe its a translation issue? Other than that I actually enjoyed this one a fair bit, its still not the best Lupin movie ever (Castle of Cagliostro still holds that honour) but it's definitely good enough if you can find a cheap copy somewhere.
deathunderadoor
February 16, 2026
The manner of the more angular and jagged anatomy at times, with very dynamic poses forming tons of craggy silhouettes, made out of oblong quadrilaterals jutting out of each other, reminded me a ton of Street Fighter Alpha: Generations. The fights here are pretty brisk and snappily choreographed, they're probably where the direction was at its slickest. The scenes of Lupin smoothly dodging all of Ellen's attacks and even prodding at her with a broom reminded me a ton of the Cowboy Bebop movie, with the famous Spike janitor scene. There's another of Fujiko being pinned down and having a knife dragged across her chesta lot like Faye by Vincent. But those thin but blocky, bifurcated silhouettes had me totally convinced there had to be some key animator in common between this and Alpha, and after going quite some ways down the list, I finally found my answer in Hiroyuki Imaishi of GAINAX fame. Of course it was him! No wonder I like the style so much. It's kind of most like FLCL out of his works I've seen. This was a pretty cinematic, substantive, melancholic, and stylish 'anime movie,' especially for a TV special, but it's not exactly what I personally look for from a Lupin movie. But it is mayhaps the most Bond-esque one I've seen yet, it feels very much like a "serious production." Its tighter, sharper, very late 90s artstyle, along with the muted cool tones, and its moody and serious presentation, excluding a few too dinky, goofy sound effects on some Zenigata gags, made an experience slightly slightly more akin to like a very Bond-esque episode of Cowboy Bebop or Trigun or something. Albeit with the plot of a non-canon movie for some long running shōnen, like a MHA movie or a Naruto. Or an episode of Conan. It didn't have Lupin's particular brand of swag in its presentation, and there was very little screwball shit and insane plays. This one's like a sweet vanilla milkshake, when Lupin is at my favorite when it's an astonishing, authentic calzone. The Funimation dub was extremely distracting. And I've seen Funi Lupin before. But here, you just can't help but constantly recognize everyone's voices, like okay, why is Lupin Krillin. Sabat's Jigen here is between Zoro and Piccolo, except for this one time he yells and the Vegeta comically jumps out of him. Justin Cook's shrill, grating yells on that wily, white FREAK hit you like a truck, oh that's Yusuke. That's the voice of my GOAT coming out of a disgusting goon. That's gore of my comfort character. I adore how Zenigata is drawn in this one, his faces are so adorable and vivid. Fujiko looked great, yet unfortunately was blonde like Cagliostro. You barely get much of Jigen or Goemon in this one, but Goemon does get some especially funny moments. The plots pretty great, in my opinion. It's a good setting and villain organization. The blood takes some cool shapes, like to see it.
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