The film will be a continuation spinoff of the 2012 "Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine" television anime series.
Lupin and Jigen have their sights set on a treasure worth stealing called the Little Comet which is located in the country of East Doroa. 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 two countries being enemies, Lupin and Jigen still plan to steal the treasure. During the heist, Jigen almost got killed by a skilled sniper named Yael Okuzaki. His specialty is preparing tombstones for his targets before executing his kills. Its said that no one has survived after Yael makes a grave for that target.
(Source: ANN)
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BlobbertMcN
'Lupin the IIIrd: Jigen Daisuke no Bohyou', or 'Jigen Daisuke's Tombstone' - a spinoff of one of my personal favourite anime 'Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Mine Fujiko'. While I certainly didn't see it meeting the same level of quality as the the original, this spin off was certainly still an enjoyable watch. But let me break it down: ~STORY~ The story of Jigen Daisuke's Tombstone is definitely weaker than its original counterpart, even compared to individual episodes - which is certainly a shame. Rather than a focus on Lupin III, as you may have guessed the story is focused more on his hat-tilting, gun-toting friendJigen. Or does it? Jigen is indeed the one in the title, but he seems less interesting than other iterations of himself, and commands less focus (More about that in Characters). Rather the plot revolves around an assassination, the assassin involved and why it happened. But is that even the point?
If you couldn't tell, the story, while easy to understand, lacks focus. It sets up a story of politics and assassinations, changes to one of 'who is of greater skill', gets sidetracked by something almost completely unrelated (Pretty much an excuse to get Mine Fujiko naked again - which isn't a spoiler), then wraps it all up with brief mention to previous points. While it does hit the regular Lupin III plot point of Lupin being the smartest guy in a room, I can't help but feel as if it's setting up for sequels by intentionally leaving things unexplained. I guess I just expected more.
~CHARACTERS~
The regular Lupin III cast returns... except my two favourite characters are missing! But oh well, the detective and samurai can be put on hold I suppose. As for the cast that does show up, I have to say I'm a little disappointed. While indeed Lupin, Fujiko and Jigen are all more or less themselves, I can't help but think that Fujiko and Jigen are less capable than they were in the original 'Mine Fujiko' series. To say more is spoilers, but I can't help but think that their skill is arbitrarily reduced to generate conflict. Despite this, there's nothing particularly wrong with any of the main characters personalities - if you liked them before, you'll like them now. The 'villain' however is not too exciting, the writers thinking eccentricity is a replacement for actual character. But if you're into calculated killer type of villain, then I'm sure you'll enjoy him just fine.
~ART~
While the art and the character designs is still very nice to look at (almost identical to the 'Mine Fujiko' series), I have to say that it looks much cleaner than its original counterpart, lacking the same style. Depending on your personal opinion that's either better or worse, but personally I missed the thick chalky shadows of the original. Certainly anything but bad, but it doesn't look quite as impressive as the original.
~SOUND~
Pretty standard for a modern Lupin creation - which means it's quite good. It lacks the breadth of the original 'Mine Fujiko' series, but then again 57 minutes compared to a 13 episode series means you can't have as diverse a soundtrack. Also a little less jazzy, which I missed, but that's just my personal tastes.
~ENJOYMENT~
As I said in the opening, while lacking the same quality as the original, Lupin IIIrd: Jigen Daisuke's Tombstone is still entertaining, as pretty much all Lupin is. It's a short watch, and worth it just to have a bit more quality Lupin.
Overall, if this is the first spinoff of many, this first one certainly hasn't reduced my opinion of those to come. I'm excited to see where this is heading, but I hope the story improves.
Toodles~
AnimeObasan
In a movie called "Daisuke Jigen's Tombstone," one might suppose that it would be about, oh, I don't know...Daisuke Jigen. Probably his inevitable death (which will, of course, be fake because he's been kicking since the 60s and do you really think some random movie villain is going to end him?). If you are hoping for a Jigen origin story, you'll find more backstory in many Red Jacket series episodes. Instead of focusing on the titular character (as The Woman Called Fujiko Mine did), this is once again a Lupin adventure. That's, of course, not a bad thing. The Lupin franchise has been going strongwith no end in sight. However, the movie had a strange feel to it. It was very 1970s, but you won't understand why it has such an outdated feel until a certain end scene at which point the Jigen movie now feels like a prequel and the mood makes sense. In other words: go into this short movie (less than an hour) not expecting much, but still leaving satisfied. Ish.
STORY: As I said, not much focus on Jigen. I mean, I guess it was titled "Tombstone" and not "Jigen Origin Story," but I expected more from the trailers. I skipped through it before watching it, and found a scene with a woman on stage. I assumed we'd have a detailed backstory about that. Nope. No emotional connection there. And the movie is odd; broken down into two parts. Every single Lupin movie/special has at least one laugh out loud moment, one moment to make you really feel glad you watched it. This movie is so blah it's ridiculous. It's an action movie with very little good action and too many over used (and unsuccessful) story props. HOWEVER! The last 10 minutes will pay off. We get a few good cameos, and one that has me going back to watch the certain movie he or she was in.
CHARACTER: As a woman, the only thing I dislike about Monkey Punch's anime and ESPECIALLY the manga, is how much he seems to hate women. They are there to be, either abused, killed off, or romanced. Every single female character in a special is killed off once we've warmed up to the idea of her, or Lupin goes gaga for her, or she's the betraying vixen. Fujiko covers those last two pretty well. This time around, Lupin isn't having any of her B.S. But still, she gets groped, of course, and is nude, of course. The movie takes the rapebait Fujiko trope (and I'm ashamed to admit that's what she is at this point) up a step when Fujiko is set as entertainment for a bunch of pervy old men (picture the club from Speed Grapher) and is almost raped by a giant robot. Really. Horror movie fare, and not something I expected to see in Lupin (despite a good number of his villains being after Fujiko as the norm). All right, enough about Fujiko.
Zenigata and Goemon?? Absent from the movie. Entirely absent. And before you whine: 3 second cameos do not count. They count as fanservice, but do not number towards the character count.
In the movie, Lupin acts as though he practically owns Jigen -- he's clearly the star of the show, there's no doubt about that. This is a Lupin movie, not a Jigen movie. Even during the end show down, it's all about Lupin looking cool.
Oh, and we find out Jigen likes couture. Whoo. So glad we got that backstory out of the way. Not like there's a whole period of his life he spent in America, or his youth, or anything else from his life before Lupin we could have possibly covered in an hour about Jigen, right? Right?
ANIMATION: Good, I guess. Steps it up a bit from the Fujiko series while still maintaining the style. The only thing worth mentioning is Lupin's new look. Whether a blue or green jacket, that's debatable as the movie gets a subtle filter that could have shaded the jacket from green to blue (and for the time line laid out, green would make sense). For a few minutes in the movie, Lupin gets a delightful disguise (you know the one -- with the eyepatch). Also, Jigen hasn't looked this good since the Pink Jacket series. As there were only a few characters, they definitely stepped up their allure.
SOUND: Where's my jazz?? No Yuji Ohno on this one! Other than that, normal voice acting from the Lupin gang. Nothing worth mentioning.
OVERALL: Meh. Watch it because it's as good as watching one long, unimportant episode of Lupin. Watch it because you like mediocore action. Watch it again for the end scenes ^__^
shubert101
So this film has the same mature and adult tone as the fujiko mine series which I thought overall was good. I really enjoy the Lupin the 3rd series but this was pretty disappointing overall. Right from the beginning we already know that Jigen is not going to actually die which kills some of the mystery or any kind of “suspense” the viewer is supposed to be in. Also what was the point of having Fujiko Mine in this? 90% of her inclusion in this film is just her locked in a glass enclosure naked getting attacked by a robot. Her presence in this wasnothing more than fan service and she could have easily been left out. This ova is pretty much focused on Lupin and Jigen trying to stop a killer with an eye patch that was shooting at them as they were trying to finish a heist at the start of the film. I know this only had a 50 minute runtime but this just felt so rushed with no real tension or any kind of suspense. Just skip this film, you already know that Jigen isn’t actually going to die and the action scenes are pretty mediocre.
Visually the film looks pretty good with vibrant and colorful animation. My biggest problem is the audio in this film and I don't mean the music. I prefer to watch my anime dubbed but the dub in this film was pretty atrious to be honest. Tony Oliver, Richard Epcar, Michelle Ruff, Lex Lang , none of these original voice actors are present in this film to reprise their roles. Richard Epcar is in the film but only to voice Zenigata’s 2 lines in the epilogue of this film. What a waste! If you have the original voice actor, why not let him voice Jigen?! The new voice actors they picked to voice the main characters, deliver their lines with no emotion or charisma to the point where I thought about switching the audio to Japanese halfway through the film.
Haneken2086
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 seriesdid 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.
SamaraGabryela
The premise is so bad and they know it, so much so that they don't even pretend to create a back story or force something from the past. It's just a random backdrop they created to define Jigen as the best gunslinger in the world, amazing that the best way they found to do that was to get a dubious guy to duel him. The big thing about this movie is that if they just wanted to show Jigen's amazing skills to the audience, why didn't they show his backstory???? We are tired of seeing Jigen being amazing in the anime, so much so thatin this story he doesn't even come close to how good he is in the series in fact! It's ridiculous. They even forced a fake kill AAAAAAAAA.
It's so bad, so sad, they even lowered the level and showed a clearly pornographic scene of Fujiko in this disgrace, the character only exists to be naked in all the scenes she appears it's so sad, just in a story that was to finally give the spotlight that Jigen deserved... And the movie ends and I couldn't care less about everything that happened on the screen, the feeling is of lost time.
Total garbage.
Inuyoujo
I was emotionally compiled to watch this because Jigen is one of my favorite characters ever! There was a lot more emotional response from myself and the characters than I expected to happen. It was really dark and serious, but everyone stayed in character. Lupin was silly and cunning! Jigen was serious with a cold exterior and warm interior. Zenigata and Goemon weren't in it and there's no character development woman, but a woman does play a key role in the story. Fujiko is her usual self. What I really like about this is that the bad guys were strategic and characteristic, and not powerhungry because they already had the power until the gang came along.
I can suggest this to people familiar with Lupin, but I don't know if I can suggest this to new anime fans because it's very contextual around the characters involved, and not all the characters are included.
Volvagia
Lupin III: Jigen's Gravestone (Grave) is the first movie in the Fujiko series. It continues themes of a more adult native and the distinctive art style the series was known for something I rather appreciate. Lupin and Jigen are after a jewel called the little comet but are hounded by the police no matter where they run. Amid their escape, Jigen gets shot by an assassin targeting him named Yael who gambles on the number of shots he will use on a mark with a dice. Yael is so confident in his ability he prepares a gravestone for each one of his targets. Fujikogets captured while pulling a caper and it is up to Lupin to come to the rescue all while trying to keep Jigen alive. It a pretty alright story I enjoyed reasonably well.
That said for its title Gravestone is more a Lupin focused film then it about Jigen which is weird because I thought these films were supposed to be highlighting specific characters in lupins gang.
Art and sound are pretty fitting for the film. The city in East Doroa where this takes place is very picturesque.
Gravestone is okay. I enjoyed it less than the Goemon one, but I was satisfied after watching it. I recommend giving this a watch but only if you have watched the Fujiko series. Not that there are any crucial story details you be missing by not watching that series but that I don't think it is worth a standalone watch.
fortuneye
[THIS WAS WRITTEN RIGHT AFTER WATCHING IT AND ON MY SOCIAL MEDIA ACC. KEEPING THIS HERE FOR AN ARCHIVE] Number one of the koike film trilogy complete. This one was not even an hour long, it was more of a special than anything. It was GREAT!!!!! SUPER COOL!!!!!! Was not expecting lupin to have a blue jacket for this given that twcfm had green jacket lupin. On tha topic of lupin himself tho I have to say, Keith Silverstein does a really great job as him!! A very left field feeling casting since Silverstein does more mysterious and evil characters usually, and while lupin is onthe evil side in koike projects, he’s no hisoka. Very surprised the casting team didn’t go for the sonny strait funi cast though since they also did twcfm. Sadly tho I did not vibe w Dan woren as jigen, his voice just doesn’t work w him. Woren himself is very hit or miss w me honestly, so I came in w a bias; he did ok and fit the mood but he doesnt scream “jigen” to me. Everyone else was good.
ASIDE FROM THE VA DEPT the animation was amazing, the music was great, and the story was really really compelling. Just good fun! This one felt like a practice run for the next film so I’m excited to hop on that one next 😋😋😋 OH DIDNT MENTION THIS BUT OBVIOUSLY THE CHARACTER DESIGNS R BANGIN AS USUAL koike is a master at mimicking the old monkey punch art style crazy well for animation and then adding his own flare to it. It’s all great I can’t get enough of how nice the gang look in his art style
OH AND MAMO GETS A CAMEO IN THE FINAL SCENE 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 HI MAMO
Jigens gravestone gets A on the lupin rating chart
Caeruleus_CCXVI
5.5/10 - Not as good as "The women named Fujiko series", but its more Lupin iii So I watched this immediately after finishing L3:TWNFM series, expecting a bit more of the same quality, art and story telling. And tho its technically part of that continuity its a considerable step down in all fields. Very disappointing to say the least, but at the end of the day its on par with most Lupin iii movies of the past, so if you enjoy those you will most likely enjoy this. As much as I have general respect for Lupin the 3rd in a general sense, im not thebiggest fan of the over arching series to be completely honest so this just wasnt for me. However L3:TWNFM series is just a complete work of art and I highly recommend that, I just think they are two completely diffrent products and kinda hard to compare.
One of the things that was also a bit weird to adjust to is the English dub voice cast is just diffrent from this movie from that series, jarring to say the least. The art was a step down, similar I guess... but not a spectacle. And the series not having the best writing or story boarding always kept you guessing what was going to happen mostly because it was so weird, and it was more of a origin story more then anything. Where this Movie was extremely predictable as you know the main cast CANT die if it wants to remain at all remotely connected to the main series, which took any type of suspense out of the finally.
This was just good enough where ill probably watch the other 2 movies in this mini series... but atleast I will know what I am getting into this time around.
LegionIscariot
Lupin III: Jigen's Gravestone Jigen has met his match. Well more than a match. Jigen is a target for assassination. But Lupin is curious why he is not also on the hit list. You get to see Fujiko naked in this. Its not really out of the ordinary since you get to see Fujiko’s breasts a lot throughout the series. But here she’s extra naked. Her only purpose in this special seems to be fan service. Zenigata and Goemon are absent from this special. For the most part this special is kinda pointless. Not bad. I just dont know why it exists. There is a plot about stealing avaluable shard of a comet.
There is a plot about assassination.
A plot about trying to unify two warring countries East Doroan and West Doroan.
But these plots are more of a backdrop.
GatesOfOblivion
I went into this knowing nothing about the Lupin series. And I must say, I really appreciate it's grit and mature approach. I know myself well enough to say, the original lighthearted take wouldn't have appealed to me. Period. This is basically perfect as a stand-alone viewing with the only downside being the portrayal of the female supporting character. I do not know her, but I do believe she deserves a better, more dignified treatment. Individual ratings for each aspect: Story - 5 (Serviceable and straight forward.) Art - 10 (Beautifully animated and stylish. Fragrant.) Sound - 10 (The soundtrack felt appropriate and a welcome departure from average animes.Especially annoying shounens.)
Character - 6 (I do not posses the context to determine this better, because I am not a follower of this series.)
Enjoyment - 7 (Solid entertainment.)
Overall - 7
Edit: Turns out the character I spoke of. Whose name is Fujiko Mine. Turns out she has always been a representation of lust in Lupin the 3rd. Really hogs on the whole undercover spy gig, and has managed to more or less kill my interest in this series.
