Lupin the Third: Jigen’s Gravestone 2014 123movies

Watch: LUPIN THE IIIRD 次元大介の墓標 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – Lupin and Jigen sneak into the country of East Doroa to steal its valuable treasure the Little Comet. The country has fortified its border after a singer named Queen Malta got assassinated in the neighboring country of West Doroa upon visit. Despite the civil war brewing between East and West Doroa, Lupin and Jigen still go ahead, but during the heist Jigen almost gets killed by a renowned sniper named Yael Okuzaki. It is said that Okuzaki prepares graves for his targets before executing his kills – and he has prepared a grave for Jigen..
Plot: Lupin & Jigen have their sights set on a treasure called the Little Comet, which is located in the heavily fortified country of East Doroa. During the heist, Jigen is almost killed by a sniper named Yael Okuzaki. His specialty is preparing tombstones for his targets before executing them. It’s said that no one can survive after Yael makes their tombstone.
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Good for what it is, bad for a follow up to a brilliant series
The TV series A Woman Called Fujiko Mine was a darker, sexier take on Lupin III. It was also a work of art that kept viewers off balance and built something extraordinary.

This hour-long video was billed as a continuation of this incarnation of the Lupin III franchise. It’s entertaining nonsense about Lupin and Jigen facing an impossibly skilled assassin, but it’s also somewhat of a betrayal of the Fujiko series, in that the strong, smart, capable woman has now been reduced to a naked damsel in distress. (Not only that, the rape-ish scene that is her main appearance makes absolutely no sense in the wider context of the video.)

Fujiko’s role here seems like a slap in the face of the series, as though the men who took over from the woman-created Fujiko series wanted to slap Fujiko back into her role as sexy-generic-woman.

They did better in the next entry and better still in the third, which put the focus back on Fujiko, but this one, while entertaining and with some good sequences, is about as much a sequel to A Woman Called Fujiko Mine as if you made a sequel to Citizen Kane that was characters in the film doing a “weekend at Bernie’s” with Charles Foster Kane’s corpse.

The better part of the Lupin III revival
In the early 2010s, Lupin III underwent a revival of sorts with two features: A WOMAN NAMED FUJIKO MINE (a TV series) and THE GRAVESTONE OF DAISUKE JIGEN (a spin-off film). Both took Lupin back to his manga comic roots: the setting was the 1960s-70s, the story was darker and more serious, Lupin and his mates were more self-serving and treacherous. This film-noir hardboiled version was a great hit and successful revival of Lupin III (if rather controversial – some Lupin fans preferred his softer, more popular version of a noble trickster).

I would call GRAVESTONE the better part of the revival. The Fujiko series did things differently and delightfully, but it presented a convoluted backstory that turned out to be a falsehood, all for a character that never really had a history to begin with (Lupin deserves as much history as James Bond – it’s the adventures he faces rather than his past that matter for him). This story happens to be more straightforward, with Lupin facing off against a gunman who has marked his mate Jigen for death.

The artwork and music are wonderfully atmospheric, capturing the suave, sensual and stylish essence of the 1960s-70s era. The story too is well- written and substantial, and pays tribute to the original days of espionage, when espionage was about using one’s wits and skill to outsmart an enemy, and not about saving the world with a pocketful of gadgets. There are no fancy schemes at work, simply a hit-man’s job and a clash of skill and wits.

The only problems with the film is, for me, seen from a Lupin fan’s perspective: in a long line of Lupin works, this comes off as a somewhat predictable adventure (the appearance of an enemy from a Lupin film enhances the perception of deja vu). Also the removal of two major characters (Goemon, Zenigata) is a little off-putting, but to be fair they had no place in the story. But as I said, these are a fan’s perception: for the most part this story manages to be original enough to draw in viewers, and as with long-running franchises the stories tend to be the same after a while (OO7, which inspired Lupin, is a great example of this).

On the whole, it makes for a fairly good Lupin tale. Not necessarily one of the best, but definitely an above average story that makes for a great watch.

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Original Language ja
Runtime 51 min
Budget 0
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Status Released
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Genre Animation, Action, Crime
Director Takeshi Koike
Writer Monkey Punch, Yuya Takahashi
Actors Richard Epcar, Akio Hirose, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Country Japan
Awards 2 nominations
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