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Live-Action Lupin III's 1st Character Visuals Unveiled
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The first official character visuals from the new live-action Meisa Kuroki as Fujiko Mine.
The photoshoot caused even Monkey Punch to remark, "Looks good. This is going to be quite a movie." Notably, Oguri is wearing the red velvet jacket and yellow necktie of the second television anime series. He underwent 10 months of action training with sticks and lost eight kilograms (about 18 pounds) for the role. Oguri wields Lupin III's favorite Walter P38, while Tamayama bears the familiar Kuroki performed her own wire action stunts as Fujiko.
The first live-action adaptation of Lupin III in four decades will Cleopatra within. It is said that whoever possesses this treasure shall "unite the world."
The movie began filming on October 3 and finished principal photography on December 26. The production shot in Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Philippines. It is now in the middle of the final steps of editing, and the staff aims to complete post production and the film itself at the end of June. Azumi) is directing the film, and Mataichirō Yamamoto wrote the script.
Take Yoshida, a writer and a friend of director Kitamura, had told the website zakzak that the director intends to Lupin III: Strange Psycho-Kinetic Strategy.
Sources: Cinema Today, Oricon, Eiga.com
Images © 2014 Lupin III the Movie Production Committee © Monkey Punch
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