Researchers unearth a long-lost page of "The Travels of Marco Polo" and discover it's a clue to a lost treasure! Lupin appears to swipe the tablet, but he leaves empty-handed... and as a murder suspect! He shrugs off being framed for the death of an archaeology professor just enough to go treasure-hunting. Tailed by both a weapons dealer and ICPO Inspector Zenigata, Lupin must rely on his gunslinging partner Jigen and the professor's granddaughter Lisa to stay two steps ahead. Meanwhile, the swordsman Goemon rethinks his devotion to the blade and finds romance deep in the mountains. Two tales collide in a worldwide adventure packed with history and laughs!
Direction
Split narrative keeps both threads surprisingly balanced.
Writing
Goemon's romantic subplot hits different from usual stoic samurai fare.
Director
Hajime Kamegaki
Kanichi Kurita
Arsène Lupin III (voice)
Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Daisuke Jigen (voice)
Miyuki Sawashiro
Fujiko Mine (voice)
Daisuke Namikawa
Goemon Ishikawa XIII (voice)
Koichi Yamadera
Inspector Koichi Zenigata (voice)
Marina Inoue
Lisa Argento (voice)
Ichiro Nagai
Musashibō Benkei the 22nd (voice)
Romi Park
Hiromi (voice)
Yuka Terasaki
Rumi (voice)
Sora Tokui
Ami (voice)
Tadashi Nakamura
Theo Argento (voice)
Hiroshi Tsuchida
Claudio Berardi (voice)
Tadashi Miyazawa
Bao Long (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 2012 TV special marked director Hajime Kamegaki's sole Lupin outing after decades directing iconic anime like Saint Seiya and Fushigi Yugi.
The Marco Polo manuscript premise riffs on real-world 'Rasceta' mystery—historians still debate whether Polo's original text contained hidden maps to Asian treasures.
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