The official website for the upcoming Lupin the IIIrd the Movie: Fujimi no Ketsuzoku anime film announced the casting of Japanese comedy duo Kuki Kaidan in guest additional roles. The film will be screened in Japanese theaters on June 27, 2025.
Kuki Kaidan was founded in 2012 by Mogura Suzuki and Katamari Mizukawa. Both are featured in the interview video below talking about their involvement in the film. Suzuki will voice Luuo (left), who is a man with a mechanical body and a long neck. Mizukawa will voice Fuua (right), who is a man dressed in a suit and sunglasses.
They join the film’s main voice cast, some of whom are reprising their roles from past installments, that includes:
- • Kanichi Kurita as Lupin the IIIrd
- • Akio Otsuka as Daisuke Jigen
- • Daisuke Namikawa as Goemon Ishikawa
- • Miyuki Sawashiro as Fujiko Mine
- • Koichi Yamadera as Zenigata
- • Ainosuke Kataoka as Muomu
- • Aoi Morikawa as Sarifa
Fujimi no Ketsuzoku is directed by Takeshi Koike, who previously worked on titles such as Redline, Lupin the IIIrd: Jigen’s Gravestone, Lupin the IIIrd: Goemon’s Blood Spray, and Lupin the IIIrd: Fujiko’s Lie.
Other staff involved in the film include Yuya Takahashi (Lupin the IIIrd: Jigen’s Gravestone, Lupin the IIIrd: Goemon’s Blood Spray) as screenwriter, James Shimoji (Lupin the IIIrd: Jigen’s Gravestone, Lupin the IIIrd: Goemon’s Blood Spray, and Lupin the IIIrd: Fujiko’s Lie) as music composer, and Katsuhito Ishii (Redline character and machine designer et al., Lupin the IIIrd: Jigen’s Gravestone, Lupin the IIIrd: Goemon’s Blood Spray, and Lupin the IIIrd: Fujiko’s Lie) as creative advisor. Telecom Animation Film is in charge of the film’s animation production.
A prequel, Lupin the IIIrd: Zenigata to Futari no Lupin, will begin streaming in Japan before the theatrical premiere of Fujimi no Ketsuzoku on June 20, 2025. A broadcast premiere on WOWOW will follow on June 22, 2025.
The new film is being advertised as the franchise’s first main 2D animated feature film since Lupin the 3rd Dead Or Alive in 1996. The Lupin films Koike previously directed were not feature length and were all spinoffs of Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine.
Other films of the franchise include the CG Lupin III THE FIRST in 2019, and the crossover films Lupin III vs. Detective Conan The Movie in 2013 and Lupin III vs. Cat’s Eye in 2023.
The Lupin III franchise, which features the exploits of the master thief Lupin III, started with the manga series, created by the late Monkey Punch, that ran in Futabasha’s Weekly Manga Action magazine from August 10, 1967 to May 22, 1969. A total of 14 tankobon volumes were originally released in Japan. Tokyopop licensed the manga for release in English. Seven Seas Entertainment would later release select chapters in omnibus book format in 2021 and 2023, respectively.
The manga has inspired a franchise that includes numerous manga entries, TV anime adaptations, films, and OVAs. The first TV anime series adaptation began airing in 1971.
Fujimi no Ketsuzoku follows Lupin and his friends searching for an elusive treasure on a mysterious unmarked island.
Source: Lupin the IIIrd Official Anime Website, Official Tumblr, Crunchyroll News
