#the mystery of mamo

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

INTRICATE RITUALS

#FELLAS‚ #zenigata #lupin iii #the mystery of mamo #loopzoop #my edits #or rather my photos of my tv bc i don't have a way to screencap the discotek blu-ray subs

[plankos]

mamo redraw

#art #fanart #lupin iii #lupin the third #the mystery of mamo #mystery of mamo #fujiko mine #mine fujiko #redraw

[sauntervaguelydown]

Sorry I have to talk about Mamo again.

Fujiko compels me in this movie more than in any other part of the franchise. it’s the particular tension she has with Lupin that does it. Not just the fact that she ultimately is trying to give him the gift of immortality; not even the fact that she doesn’t want that if he doesn’t also take it. It’s more. It’s weirder.

The Lupin/Fujiko thing is so CRUNCHY. It’s like…. What they have going on is something he won’t explain to the boys and doesn’t want them to know about. He obfuscates when they ask in the car. “Women and work don’t mix”, he says, which means nothing and isn’t even true. “You don’t want to hurt her”, they accuse him. He refuses to engage.

When he chooses her over them, in the desert, he spends the next hour or whatever alone with Fujiko pissed as fuck at her and giving her the cold shoulder. It’s so interesting! He’s “dissolving the partnership” and talking about business when he tells the boys to fuck off. Putting them at the maximum distance. Saying “we’re not friends, you can leave me any time, but right now I’m leaving YOU.” Because Fujiko is asking him for help. He KNOWS that she’s been lying to him. And his response to having to choose between his friends and Fujiko is to actively drive his friends AWAY, to be a total dickhead, when he could probably have managed to keep Jigen with him at least.

And then instead of cosying up to Fujiko, he sits there sulking about how she’s messed everything up. But he still chose her. Not even to get anything from her, at least not in the immediate sense, because he’s just! Sulking! In the window!! And he’d probably go on doing that all night if she didn’t start talking about making it up to him.

And I’m not sure about the original Japanese but in the dub, there is also an interesting moment of addressing the elephant in the room when he points out that she seems to want him to adore her but not to be attracted to her. In a lot of sexist media, the mysterious-ness of women is taken for granted—obviously you can’t understand women, so why bother trying. I find this interesting because it pulls that into the text, and does make you wonder what Fujiko actually wants, and whether it’s something that might actually make sense from her perspective. It’s not like no media has ever done this before, it’s just… when his weird relationship with her is SO front and center to this movie, and when it’s contrasted directly before with him choosing her and being MAD about it, and then later with her role in the immortality stuff…

She’s not using him, at least not entirely—she’s not JUST stringing him along to get him to get immortality out of it. She wants to live in the same world as him forever. She obviously loves him.

“How long has it been since we were alone together like this”, she says

“Long time”, he says.

They were alone together at the beginning of the movie, when he tried to give her flowers, so that’s not what she means. “Very long,” she agrees. What does she mean?

There’s this big strange untold space in their shared backstory that is being gestures at, and you know there’s SOMETHING there, but you don’t know what.

#how the fuck did I write all that #about THIS MOVIE #lupin iii #the mystery of mamo

[omercifulheaves]

Lupin The 3rd: The Mystery of Mamo (1978)

#anime #monkey punch #posters #lupin the 3rd #lupin iii #the mystery of mamo

[anysin]

Jigen and Lupin being cute while Goemon has a drink in The Mystery of Mamo.

#lupin iii #the mystery of mamo #gifs #my stuff #jigen x lupin #goemon

[schizoid-radical]

Looking a little out of place there!

Shot from Lupin the 3rd: the Mystery of Mamo

#lupin iii #lupin the 3rd #lupin the third #the mystery of mamo #batman #wonder woman #robin #aquaman #super man #80s anime #clark bars

[smbhax]

Cliff Hanger (Stern, 1983) arcade flyer

Came out three months after Dragon’s Lair. Uses footage from late 70s Lupin III films “The Castle of Cagliostro” and “The Mystery of Mamo.”

– Cliff Hanger - Stern-Seeburg (Video Game, 1983) - USA | The Arcade Flyer Archive – Cliff Hanger (video game) - Wikipedia

#cliff hanger #stern seeburg #stern electronics #laser disc #arcade flyer #1980s #lupin iii #anime #the castle of cagliostro #castle of cagliostro #mystery of mamo #the mystery of mamo #arcade game #arcade games #video game #video games #Youtube

[sournote2014]

Zenigata in pursuit in 'The Mystery of Mamo'.

#lupin iii #the mystery of mamo #koichi zenigata #zenigata heiji vii #tamsin parker art

[dandunn]

You ever think about how the ending of Mystery of Mamo is just this:

#lupin the third #the mystery of Mamo #I'm only joking #mostly #Youtube

[lupin-iii-edits]

The Mystery of Mamo (1978)

#lupin iii #movies and specials #The Mystery of Mamo #width #character(s) #{character tag} Arsène Lupin III

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

I was watching an old episode of a Critical Role show, and they were playing a Lupin III arcade game from 1983?! It was called Cliff Hanger and was based off the film. As the preeminent Lupin III blogger on the internet, the episode was Mame Drop: Laser Disk Classics if you want to take a look

I completely forgot to answer this ask but YES. Cliff Hanger (1983) is my white whale of arcade games; I have never wanted to play a game I will lose at so badly. There are only four (registered) cabinets in the U.S. (where I live) and someday I WILL drive several hours to one just to play it.

For those unfamiliar, this is a very-much-unauthorized mashup of the first two Lupin III films—The Mystery of Mamo (1978, dir. Soji Yoshikawa) and The Castle of Cagliostro (1979, dir. Hayao Miyazaki)—and perhaps the two most visually and tonally different Lupin installments to this day. A small American company got their hands on these films, cut them together into a new storyline that mostly followed Cagliostro but with a few action scenes (and also the hanging shot) from Mamo spliced in, and made a LaserDisc arcade game out of it.

Notably, you can see Chunk playing this game in the opening chase scene of The Goonies (1985) (2:50). Cagliostro was a major source of inspiration for that film, all the way down to Lupin/Data's belt-buckle wire (2:29).

Here is an original promotional video for Cliff Hanger:

You can watch a full playthrough here:

If you'd like a full playthrough on a physical cabinet screen, complete with the original player-death hanging animation from Mamo (14:25), look no further:

And finally, the Critical Role video in question (Cliff Hanger begins at 25:28) (warning: this also features the death-by-hanging animation):

#insane little piece of pop culture #compels me #lupin iii #cliff hanger #the mystery of mamo #the castle of cagliostro #asks #jamjarmusch #your url makes me laugh every time btw. 10/10 #videos #long post #also i am pleased to be considered an eminent lupinblogger :''')

[plankos]

mamo thingz

#art #fanart #lupin iii #lupin the third #lupin the 3rd #arsene lupin iii #fujiko mine #mine fujiko #mystery of mamo #the mystery of mamo

[palmtreepigeon]

New video is finally up on YouTube!

In the longest Pigeon video to date, I discuss about Lupin’s first animated adventure, The Mystery of Mamo!

This video took a lot more than expected!

#lupin iii #the mystery of mamo #youtube #youtube review #movie review #anime movie

[curiousrentals]

Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo | ルパン三世 ルパンVS複製人間, 1978

“Give it a rest, Lupin. Will ya?”

#lupin the 3rd #lupin the third #lupin iii #ルパン三世 #rupan sansei #soji yoshikawa #monkey punch #the mystery of mamo #70s anime

[anysin]

Lupin and Jigen in the The Mystery of Mamo.

#lupin iii #the mystery of mamo #gifs #my stuff #jigen x lupin

[mechanimereview]

Lupin III: The Mystery of Mamo - The First Lupin Film

Some Cool Production Talk (Woo, excitement) A lot of cool backstory elements are behind this film. For one thing, this is the first movie produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsa. A company that later gets rebranded as TMS which has become a pretty large production studio that has produced a lot of cool things to this day. The other part is this film came out during the Red Jacket years of Lupin and the…

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#Anime Movie #Anime Review #Lupin the 3rd #Lupin the third #The Mystery of Mamo