Farewell to Nostradamus (くたばれ!ノストラダムス Kutabare! Nosutoradamusu?) is the 4th Lupin the 3rd movie released on March 31, 1995. It was produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha and Telecom Animation Film, directed by Shunya Itō and Takeshi Shirato, and written by Hiroshi Kashiwabara and Shunya Itō.
Released ten years after The Legend of the Gold of Babylon, this marks the first appearance of Kanichi Kurita as the voice of Lupin III in the anime series' history.
Synopsis[]
Set in January 1999, a simple diamond heist leads Lupin into the machinations of a bizarre apocalyptic cult based around the prophecies of Nostradamus. The cult's plan involves kidnapping Julia, the daughter of Douglas, a wealthy American who is seeking to run in the 2000 presidential election. At stake is the lost book of Nostradamus, which Douglas holds in a high tech vault at the top of his skyscraper. Can Lupin rescue Julia, find a way into the vault, and discover the connection between the cult and the kidnapping? And what about his diamond?
Long Summary[]
In 1999, gentleman thief Arsène Lupin III and Daisuke Jigen steal a diamond and hide it in a doll. Inspector Zenigata attempts to catch the two, but they escape on an airplane. While on the plane, a girl named Julia steals Lupin's doll. Lupin chases her, leading him to Fujiko Mine, who is chaperoning her. Lupin tries to bargain with Fujiko in an effort to get the doll back, but their conversation is interrupted when the plane is hijacked.
The hijackers land the plane and request transportation and ransom in exchange for the women and children, as well as the Brazil National Football Team, who also boarded the plane. Meanwhile, a man named Chris watches the commotion from a distance and activates the bomb the hijackers have. When the bomb starts counting down, the hijackers become startled and the passengers use this opportunity to fight back and escape from the plane.
As Lupin and Jigen escape, Julia is kidnapped by Chris and his henchmen via helicopter. Fujiko then explains to Lupin and Jigen that Julia is the daughter of Douglas, who is campaigning to become President of the United States in the forecoming election. Meanwhile, a man named Rhisley, the head of a cult known as the Nostradamus Sect, speaks to a crowd of followers. He claims to have a book filled with the lost prophecies of Nostradamus and recites one of the verses which predicted the plane's hijacking.
In actuality, his book is a fake. The real one is in the safe on the top floor of the Earth Building, which belongs to Douglas. Fujiko reveals that she took the job of looking after Julia in order to break into the safe and steal the lost prophecies of Nostradamus. The three travel to the Earth Building and Fujiko meets with Douglas and his wife to tell them that Julia has been kidnapped while Lupin and Jigen try to break into the vault. Chris then makes an appearance on TV and demands that Douglas drop out of the presidential race in exchange for Julia. Douglas refuses, saying that the kidnapping will lead to sympathy for his campaign.
Lupin and Jigen fail to open the vault and Fujiko is kidnapped by Chris. While driving through the city searching for Fujiko, Lupin and Jigen come across Goemon Ishikawa XIII and convince him to join them. Lupin makes a plan to get himself arrested and sent to Execution Island, a prison where Lupin's Uncle Philip, as Philip was the only person who managed to get inside the vault. During Lupin's stay, Chris and the Nostradamus Sect take Uncle Philip and use a machine to extract the information on how to get into the vault, killing him in the process. Lupin takes Philips body and discovers that one of his eyes is fake, which he holds on to.
Jigen and Goemon arrive in a helicopter to help Lupin escape, but Lupin is shot by Chris and falls into the ocean. The next day, Lupin wakes up on an island and is being nursed back to health by a boy named Sergio and his grandmother. While on the island, he discovers that Fujiko is there as well, but Sergio's grandmother says that she's really a handmaiden of the Nostradamus Sect. Lupin follows Fujiko to a cathedral where the sect is located, where he finds out that Julia is being kept prisoner and Fujiko has lost her memory. Lupin is then discovered by the sect and thrown in a cell.
Meanwhile, Jigen and Goemon believe that Lupin is dead and stake out a black market weapons shop, waiting for Chris. He shows up with some henchmen and they partake in a short battle where Chris gets away. After the fight, Lupin contacts Jigen, informing him that the Nostradamus Sect is connected to the kidnapping and that he is being held prisoner by them. While this is taking place, Julia cuts off a wrist band that Fujiko is wearing and her memories return. Chris then meets with Rhisley and their plan is revealed. As more people join the Nostradamus Sect, and their lies become the only truths, they plan to gain enough power to have the entire world bow down to them.
As the sect closes in on them, Jigen and Goemon arrive and help Lupin, Julia, and Sergio escape, but Julia is kidnapped once again. They make their way back to the States and come up with a plan to get into the vault. Lupin recalls the fake eye he got from Uncle Philip and thinks that since the security system only recognizes the eyes of Douglas' immediate family, Philip must have used the eye to get into the vault. Meanwhile, the Brazilian Soccer Team is staying in the Earth Building when Chris uses his watch to activate the same wrist bands they're wearing that Fujiko had on earlier. The bands hypnotize them and they place several bombs throughout the building. Goemon discovers what's going on and informs the others about it.
The next day, Rhisley speaks to a crowd of people in front of the Earth Building and informs them that one of the verses states that the skyscraper will explode, leading to the people inside to evacuate. During the commotion, Lupin, Jigen, Fujiko, and Goemon make another attempt to break into the vault. However, Chris goes against Rhisley's plan and enters the building to steal the lost prophecies of Nostradamus for himself. He gets to the vault first, but the inside of the vault has a defense mechanism which creates the illusion of falling into an endless abyss. When Lupin and Jigen arrive, Julia gives them the prophecies of Nostradamus.
While Chris is still affected by the vault's illusion, he panics and activates the bombs with his watch. The building is severely damaged, but is still able to stand. Jigen, Goemon, and Fujiko are separated from Lupin and Julia, but Douglas gets parachutes to all of them. However, Chris comes to his senses and attacks Lupin and Julia. As the Earth Building continues to break apart, the vault collapses onto Chris, killing him. Lupin and Julia make their escape and Rhisley falls to his death.
When the disaster is over, Julia is reunited with her family. As the gang makes plans to sell the book of lost prophecies, Goemon discovers that Julia had doodled on several of the pages. Realizing, that it's now useless, they destroy the book. Julia returns the diamond to Lupin and they all watch as the Earth Building collapses.
Cast[]
- Japanese
Characters | Voice Actors |
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Lupin III | Kanichi Kurita Yasuo Yamada (trailer voice) |
Daisuke Jigen | Kiyoshi Kobayashi |
Goemon Ishikawa XIII | Makio Inoue |
Fujiko Mine | Eiko Masuyama |
Inspector Koichi Zenigata | Gorō Naya |
Julia | Yumi Adachi |
Raizury | Hōsei Komatsu (as Rhisley) |
Mary Douglas | Fumi Dan (as Maria) |
Chris | Akio Ohtsuka |
Douglas | Osamu Saka |
Philip | Jōji Yanami |
Mario | Tarō Arakawa |
Sergio | Takaaki Hiyoshi |
Old Woman | Sayuri Sadaoka |
Bart | Fumihiko Tachiki |
Steve | Yasuyuki Hirata |
Smith | Toranori Yoshikawa |
Shop Owner | Mahito Tsujimura |
Flight Attendant | Yōko Nomura |
In-Flight Announcer | Natsumi Asaoka |
Commander | Yuzuru Fujimoto |
Miss Brazil | Kumiko Tsunoda |
Hijackers | Kōji Ochiai Hisaya Ishiguro |
Additional Voices:[1]
- Takashi Irie as Religious Soldier
- Tsunehisa Fujī as SP
- English ("Farewell to Nostradamus")
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Characters | Voice Actors |
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Lupin III | Sonny Strait |
Daisuke Jigen | Christopher R. Sabat |
Goemon Ishikawa XIII | Mike McFarland |
Fujiko Mine | Meredith McCoy |
Inspector Koichi Zenigata | Phillip Wilburn |
Julia | Laura Bailey |
Douglas | Brice Armstrong |
Chris | Dameon Clarke |
Raizury | Josh Martin (as Rhisley) |
Sergio | Aaron Dismuke |
Mary | Colleen Clinkenbeard |
Philip | Dameon Clarke |
Additional Voices:
- Troy Baker
- Jeff Johnson
- Caitlin Glass
- Kyle Hebert as Hijacker A
- Paige Erwin
- Wendy Powell as Old Woman
- Jerome Fifty-Seven
- Italian ("Le profezie di Nostradamus")
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Characters | Voice Actors | |
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MITO Film (Mediaset TV dub) |
SEFIT CDC (DVD dub) | |
Lupin III | Roberto Del Giudice | Roberto Del Giudice |
Daisuke Jigen | Sandro Pellegrini | Sandro Pellegrini |
Goemon Ishikawa XIII | Antonio Palumbo | Antonio Palumbo |
Fujiko Mine | Alessandra Korompay | Alessandra Korompay |
Inspector Koichi Zenigata | Rodolfo Bianchi | Enzo Consoli |
Julia | Unknown | Letizia Ciampa |
Raizury | Mario Bombardieri (as Raizuly) |
Pietro Biondi (as Raizuly) |
Maria | Unknown | Unknown |
Chris | Davide Marzi | Massimo De Ambrosis |
Philip | Unknown | Unknown |
Sergio | Alessio Puccio | Fabrizio De Flaviis |
Douglas | Stefano De Sando | Stefano De Sando |
- French ("Adieu, Nostradamus!")
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Characters | Voice Actors |
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Lupin III | Bruno Magne (as Lupan) |
Daisuke Jigen | Hervé Caradec |
Goemon Ishikawa XIII | Constantin Pappas |
Fujiko Mine | Nathalie Homs |
Inspector Koichi Zenigata | Constantin Pappas |
Julia | Lucile Boulanger |
Raizury | Frédéric Cerdal (as Rhisley) |
Maria | Danièle Hazan |
Chris | Hervé Caradec |
Philip | Frédéric Cerdal |
Sergio | Nathalie Homs |
Douglas | Gilbert Lévy |
- German ("Farewell to Nostradamus")
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Characters | Voice Actors |
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Lupin III | Peter Flechtner |
Daisuke Jigen | Tilo Schmitz |
Goemon Ishikawa XIII | Peter Reinhardt |
Fujiko Mine | Ghadah Al-Akel |
Inspector Koichi Zenigata | Stefan Staudinger |
Julia | Victoria Frenz |
Raizury | Rainer Brandt (as Raisuli) |
Maria | Liane Rudolph |
Chris | Jan Spitzer |
Philip | Walter Alich |
Sergio | Unknown |
Douglas | Reinhard Kuhnert |
Additional voices:[2]
- Eva-Maria Werth as Old Woman
- Michael Bauer
- Dirk Müller
Releases[]
- Further Information: Home Media Releases/Movies#Farewell to Nostradamus
Gallery[]
Video[]
Translation Notes[]
In the German dub, Jigen complains that he can't swim. In the original, he makes no such comment.
In the German dub, Zenigata mutters to himself while breaking out of the suitcase he zipped himself into. In the Japanese original, he doesn't say anything.
Notes[]
- The film is a condemnation on Aum Shinrikyo, the terrorist cult responsible for the 1995 Tokyo Subway Attack.
- This was the first appearance of Kanichi Kurita as the voice of Lupin III however this was originally going to be Yasuo Yamada's final Lupin project. In the trailers, Yasuo was the voice of Lupin but he passed away before the final voice recording was made so Kanichi took over.
- Originally Yoshito Yasuhara was considered for the role of Lupin as he was studying under Yasuo Yamada, and would replace him in several roles after Yamada's death such as Bernard the mouse and Kermit the frog. Kanichi Kurita was chosen after much persuasion. [3]
- This was the first theatrical release of a Lupin film since The Legend of the Gold of Babylon. However the OVA The Plot of the Fuma Clan was also screened in cinemas, the film was produced due to the success of the TV Specials that were aired on NTV.
- The film took 8 months to be produced. Due to the working conditions given by chief director and co-writer Toshiya Ito causing the staff to work overtime all day and night[4], the staff at Telecom were demotivated and refused to work on Lupin the 3rd until the TVSP Elusiveness of the Fog.[5]
- During the end of the credits there is a dedication that reads "To Yasuo Yamada, Eternal Lupin III: Thank you!".
- Maria mentions that the 1994 World Cup and the 1996 Olympics were held at the Douglas Foundation. The 1994 World Cup in real life was held in 9 major cities of the US, while the 1996 Olympics was actually held in Atlanta, Georgia.
- It should be noted that the 1999 setting was in order to future-proof the film as TMS Entertainment would not be able to know where the Summer Olympics would be held. In the dub Fujiko simply states that the 70th through 100th stories have sporting stadiums for every sport imaginable including the possibility of hosting the Olympics, as pointed out by the indoor ski slope being present to host a potential Winter Olympics.
- Given the 1999 setting, then the film is set in February of that year. With those details in mind, the Carnivale sequence would be set on Friday, Feb. 12th. By extension, Julia's birthday would be on Mardi Gras of that same year (Tuesday, Feb. 16th) and the finale would be set on Ash Wednesday (Wednesday, Feb. 17th).
- According to Fujiko, the Earth Building is 200 stories and its height is 1000 meters (3281 feet) tall. Had this building existed in the year 1999, it would beat the Petronas Towers' record of being the tallest building in the world. The Petronas Towers were only 452 meters (1483 feet) tall.
- In the dub, Fujiko refers to the building as being 200 stories and 3000 feet tall, all while still beating the aforementioned record.
- Jigen jokingly and sarcastically compares the Earth Building to the Tower of Babel, referencing the previous film which featured it as part of its plot.
- From 1:04:18-1:04:21 Lupin watches a cartoon that had a duck chasing after a bear. The characters are inspired by Buster Bunny and Plucky Duck from Tiny Toon Adventures. This was because Telecom who animated the film were also involved with some of the episodes from the series along with other studios that worked with TMS and other outsourced studios that Warner Bros. used.
- During the parade with the Brazilian Soccer team, a variant of the Confederate Flag can be seen along side the US flag.
- In the German dub, Jigen complains that he can't swim. Other animations such as Part 2 Episode 4, The Castle of Cagliostro and Part III Episode 1 show he's able to swim just fine.
External Links[]
- Official TMS Page. tms-e.co.jp (in Japanese)
- Official TMS Global Page. tms-e.co.jp (in Japanese)
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Farewell to Nostradamus
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Characters
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Lupin III • Daisuke Jigen • Goemon Ishikawa XIII • Fujiko Mine • Koichi Zenigata | |
Julia • Raizuri • Mary Douglas • Chris • Philip • Sergio • Douglas | |
Music
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Theme from Lupin III '89 | |
Ai no Tsuzuki | |
References[]
- ↑ ルパン三世 くたばれ!ノストラダムス. www.mau2.com (in Japanese)
- ↑ https://www.synchronkartei.de/film/19118 (in Deutsche)
- ↑ とり・みきの映画吹替王 洋泉社 p64
- ↑ レイアウトパレット - Interview with Yasuo Otsuka. yk.rim.or.jp (in Japanese)
- ↑ Yasuo Otsuka Special Interview. lupinfes2003.fc2web.com (in Japanese)