Lupin III: The Fuma Conspiracy · review
Lupin III: Fuuma Ichizoku no Inbou film, is really carries Lupin's spirit and vitality from adventure and chase scenes, movement and playfulness, by great production, especially in terms of animation, for which there are many animators led by Kazuhide Tomonaga as an animation director, With long experience and rare talent, who has previously worked on many distinguished scenes such as his many scenes with Miyazaki, Especially in the animation of the chaser scenee that Kazuhide Tomonaga mastered it, as we have seen in his great work in the famous Miyazaki Lupin film, and honestly The chase scenes here are certainly one of thebest I've ever seen for their abundance, quality, smooth movement, and uniqueness of movement.
Also, Yasuo Otsuka supervised and checked all the motion frames in the movie, so yeah, I'm very satisfied with what I saw here.
But when it comes to talking about the story, the film has a simple one, and follows the adventure of finding the treasure of a Japanese clan that Goemon contacts them through their granddaughter who was about to marry him before the Foma clan ruining the whole thing during one of their relentless missions of trying to find the hidden treasure.
Although the script is actually good and enjoyable, but it follows the same main recurring elements in Lupin's films, but within a good short duration for the film, with a good writing for the main characters and dealing with (I mean lupin team) but weak for the original film characters.
As for my direction, the movie doesn't really have anything to distinguish it to the point that it could be considered an OVA episode as it was intended to be, But the positive side is the impact of Miyazaki's style on the film.
Other than that there is the location design which was relatively good especially since we didn't have the best experience because of the Intermediate level of the backgrounds, and the Directing creativity and Storyboard..