Lupin the Third: The Legend of Twilight Gemini (1996) on Netflix
NR19961h 32mActionAdventureAnimation
Master thief Arsène Lupin III is handed half a diamond by his dying mentor, Dolune. The other half is in Morocco, and joined together the pieces reveal a hidden treasure.
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Plot summary
Dolune, an aging thief who once showed Lupin the tricks of his trade, is close to death when he gives his former pupil half of a big diamond called Twilight. The second half of the stone is in Morocco, he says, and the two halves together point the way to a treasure. Lupin travels there with Daisuke Jigen, Goemon Ishikawa and Fujiko Mine. The country is caught up in a fight between the government and the Gelt rebels, and both sides want him. Inspector Koichi Zenigata has followed him to Morocco, and the whip-carrying Sadachiyo and a band of assassins are hunting him too. Lara leads the Geltic Tribe, whose people have lived away from their homeland for a hundred years.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lupin the Third: The Legend of Twilight Gemini (1996)
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- The script was first planned as Lupin travelling to Morocco to find "another Lupin III" under Arsène Lupin's will, with Lala revealed as Arsène Lupin's granddaughter. After the final draft, rights problems and NTV's view that Lupin I is not Arsène Lupin forced that setting to be dropped.
- Director Gisaburō Sugii's return to Lupin III came 27 years after his last involvement, as a key animator on the 1969 Lupin III pilot film.
- The name of the assassin Sadachiyo was taken from an Asakusa hot-spring inn where the staff stayed together for a brainstorming retreat.
- Earlier specials ended with static images over a song, but this one inserted story footage into the ending and became the first Lupin TV special with an epilogue scene after the ending, a device later specials also used.
- Yūji Ōno, who had scored the earlier TV specials, stepped down for this one as he had for the film DEAD OR ALIVE; Takayuki Negishi replaced him, the "Lupin III Theme '89" gave way to a '96 TV version, and it is still the only special Ōno did not score.
- It was the last Lupin III work to be introduced by commentator Haruo Mizuno on Friday Road Show, since he left the programme in March 1997.
