During the screening of Lupin the IIIrd: Jigen Daisuke no Bohyou held in Tokyo, it was announced that the Lupin III franchise will receive a new movie titled Lupin the IIIrd: Chikemuri no Ishikawa Goemon. The movie is scheduled to premiere in Japanese theaters on February 4, 2017. A teaser was also revealed on its official website.
Staff members from the previous movie will reprise their roles. Director Takeshi Koike will helm the movie at TMS Entertainment. Yuuya Takahashi (Lupin III (2015)) is in charge of the series composition, and James Shimoji (Redline) will compose the music. Cast members for Arsene Lupin III (Kanichi Kurita), Goemon Ishikawa XIII (Daisuke Namikawa), Fujiko Mine (Miyuki Sawashiro), and Kouichi Zenigata (Kouchi Yamadera) will also reprise their roles in the upcoming movie.
Drawn by Monkey Punch, the Lupin III franchise has received various anime adaptations since the manga was first published in 1967, including the most recent movie Lupin the IIIrd: Jigen Daisuke no Bohyou released in 2014. The movie itself is a sequel to the 13-episode long TV anime Lupin the Third: Mine Fujiko to Iu Onna, which premiered in Spring 2012. Discotek Media licensed the movie for North America towards the end of 2014, and released the movie in Blu-ray and DVD format in April of this year under its English title Lupin the Third: Jigen's Gravestone.
Teaser
Official site: http://goemon-ishikawa.com/
Source: Otakomu
Lupin the IIIrd: Chikemuri no Ishikawa Goemon on MAL
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