Gemstone, the Mermaid's Scale, appears in a secret, underground auction. The queen of the underworld coerces Lupin into stealing the rock for her. Quickly discovering not only that the stone is a forgery, but that the real Mermaid's Scale is part of an unsolved riddle that leads to transcending mortality!
Direction
Takiguchi balances slapstick and genuine tension like a tightrope.
Writing
Riddle-plot rewards attention without punishing casual viewers.
Director
Teiichi Takiguchi
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)
Akira Ishida
Himuro (voice)
Risa Shimizu
Misa (voice)
Masako Nozawa
Masae Todo (voice)
Shirou Saitou
Kageura (voice)
Risa Shimizu
Yao Bikuni (voice)
Hayato Nakata
Prisoner (voice)
Keiichi Nakagawa
M.C. (voice)
Manabu Muraji
Manager (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 2011 special was the first Lupin TV movie without original voice actor Yasuo Yamada, with Kanichi Kurita fully inheriting the role after years of understudying.
The 'mermaid scale' legend draws from Japanese ningyo folklore, where eating mermaid flesh grants immortality—famously explored in Rumiko Takahashi's Mermaid Saga, creating intertextual anime DNA.
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