Lupin's Toughest Fight Ever is the 109th episode of Lupin the 3rd Part 2.
Synopsis[]
Lupin has to battle a hitman called Tiger. Lupin tries to dodge him, but Tiger is one step ahead of him. Lupin keeps trying to escape him but Tiger is relentless; he has a way of disappearing and appearing at will. However, there was a trick to the whole thing...
Long Summary[]
In the middle of nowhere, Lupin gets out of a car, and a stranger with white hair and a purple coat appears, saying he’s been waiting for him. Lupin asks why he asked to meet there, and what he wants. The stranger tells Lupin he has a present for him, and throws a white flower to him before shooting Lupin between the eyes.
Lying on the ground, Lupin regains consciousness despite what appears to be a bloody bullet wound on his head. Standing by a landed helicopter, the stranger from before is with two other people now, one of them a stout man with a moustache. The moustached man tells Lupin that he was just shot with a ketchup bullet, hence the red splatter, but that if it was a real bullet, he would be dead. When Lupin asks who he is, the man goes on to say that his name is All Mighty, and that the man in purple is a hired killer called Tiger. He says that a lady told him Lupin was the strongest man in the world, and that he wanted to test it. To Lupin’s surprise, Fujiko steps out of the helicopter, and All Mighty asks her if she still wants to make a bet on a fight between Lupin and Tiger.
She agrees, and they are shown a briefcase with a large rock - a rough 5000 carat diamond. If Lupin wins the fight, Fujiko will get the diamond, but if he loses, Fujiko has to become All Mighty’s concubine. Lupin refuses the fight, but Tiger tells him that the fight has already begun, and starts throwing knives at him. Lupin immediately jumps into his car and speeds away, with Tiger following in a helicopter and shooting at him from the sky. Fujiko cheers for Lupin.
Gunfire from the helicopter damages Lupin’s car and it catches on fire, forcing him to flee from it. He bursts into a room where Jigen is sitting and asks for help. Pulling off a mask, it’s revealed to be Tiger in a Jigen disguise, and the chase continues through the house, as Tiger continues to pop up everywhere, impossibly fast.
Lupin hides in an office, where a tape player on the desk relays a message from Tiger, saying that he will not kill Lupin today, but that he will the next time they meet. As Lupin is about to throw the tape player at the ground in frustration, the message mentions that a bomb is installed in the player, and it explodes in Lupin’s hand. Later, Lupin is wrapped up in bandages and tells Jigen and Goemon about what happened. Goemon suggests that Tiger is using some kind of trick to get everywhere so quickly, and that Lupin needs to figure it out to beat him.
In the next scene, Lupin and Tiger are standing across from each other in a field with deep grass. Tiger says he admires Lupin for taking the challenge, but Lupin says he only accepted it to get Tiger to leave him alone. Tiger starts chasing Lupin, who draws his gun and sees that Tiger has already disappeared. He keeps vanishing into the grass and showing up again as Lupin keeps shooting at him and missing. Once Lupin runs out of bullets, he’s forced to run from Tiger, and finds himself backed up against a cliff dropping off into a deep gorge. Tiger fires, and Lupin falls off the cliff.
Tiger is joined by a second man who looks exactly like him, and they mock Lupin for not realizing that he was fighting a pair of identical twins. Lupin observes them with a periscope from inside a cave with Jigen and Goemon. In a series of freeze frames, Lupin is shown falling off the cliff, being caught in a net by Jigen halfway down and crawling into a cave, and then Goemon shoving a crudely-sewn dummy of Lupin off the edge to make it look like he fell all the way.
In a fancy mansion, All Mighty congratulates Tiger on killing Lupin, and tells Fujiko that he won the bet. Fujiko says that she doesn’t believe Lupin is dead, and All Mighty calls her a sore loser. Suddenly, Zenigata bursts in. He is surprised to see Fujiko, and says that Lupin called him and intends to steal the 5000 carat diamond. All Mighty scoffs, saying Lupin is dead, only for the phone to ring, with Lupin on the other end.
Lupin says that in return for All Mighty’s treatment, he will be stealing the diamond at midnight that night. Zenigata explains that he has to search the house and set up guards everywhere that Lupin could get in. All Mighty orders Tiger to kill Lupin.
That night, guards surround the house while Zenigata, Fujiko and All Mighty wait for midnight. When the clock strikes, Lupin drives his car through the gate, swerving away from the guard’s gunfire. Lupin also drives the car straight through the front door and up the stairs, where he meets Zenigata. He congratulates the inspector for working so hard, but refuses to be arrested, and drives out of the house again with Zenigata trying to cling to the back of the car but eventually falling off.
While Lupin drives away, Tiger steals Zenigata’s car to pursue him, and Zenigata follows behind the two in a police car. Lupin radios Jigen and Goemon, who are flying a plane overhead, and asks them to find Tiger's accomplice. They spot his twin nearby, driving alongside the chase. Lupin asks for Jigen and Goemon to get Zenigata away from him, and they use a giant magnet from the plane to pick up the police car, carry it up into the air, and drop it back down again into water.
At an empty amusement park, Tiger is searching for Lupin near his empty car. His twin appears, distinguished only by wearing a yellow jacket instead of a purple one- and asks where Lupin went. Then, a third person who looks exactly like Tiger shows up. The first twin says it’s Lupin in disguise, and Tiger says the brothers can’t be fooled since they are communicating telepathically. Realizing the trick won't work and pulling off the mask, Lupin makes a run for it, and the twins chase him into a house of mirrors.
They sneak around quietly, guns drawn, until Tiger sees Lupin and fires at him, only to realize he was shooting at a reflection. Lupin escapes as Tiger realizes his mistake, and the pattern repeats, as the brothers become increasingly confused by the maze of mirrors.
Somehow, both brothers come face to face with Lupin, and decide to shoot in the opposite direction, convinced that they’re just seeing a reflection again. They fire at the same time, through a single pane of mirrored glass that turns out to be separating them, and both end up shooting the other in the head. The two collapse, dead, as one of the two Lupins is revealed to be Jigen in disguise.
All Mighty is shocked that Tiger has been beaten by Lupin, and Fujiko prepares to claim the diamond, since she won the bet. Suddenly, the magnet from Goemon and Jigen’s plane smashes through the window, picking up the metal briefcase with the diamond inside. Fujiko grabs onto it and ends up being carried behind the helicopter through the sky. Lupin says that he wants the diamond in exchange for Fujiko cheating him, and that she had better hold on tight if she wants to keep them and not fall down.
Cast[]
- Japanese
| Characters | Voice Actors |
|---|---|
| Lupin III | Yasuo Yamada |
| Daisuke Jigen | Kiyoshi Kobayashi |
| Goemon Ishikawa XIII | Makio Inoue |
| Fujiko Mine | Eiko Masuyama |
| Inspector Koichi Zenigata | Gorō Naya |
| Tiger Brothers | Kan Tokumaru Ryuji Nakagi |
| Almighty | Masao Imanishi |
- Italian ("Un Killer per Lupin")
| Characters | Voice Actors |
|---|---|
| Lupin III | Roberto Del Giudice |
| Daisuke Jigen | Sandro Pellegrini |
| Goemon Ishikawa XIII | Massimo Rossi |
| Fujiko Mine | Piera Vidale (as Margot Mine) |
| Inspector Koichi Zenigata | Marcello Prando |
| Tiger Brothers | Unknown Unknown |
| Almighty | Valerio Ruggeri |
- Spanish ("Lupin sólo vive dos veces" / "Lupin solo vive 2 veces")
| Characters | Voice Actors | |
|---|---|---|
| Telecinco (1991 dubbing) |
Animax (2008 dubbing) | |
| Lupin III | Txema Moscoso | Juan Navarro Torello |
| Daisuke Jigen | Juan Pascual (as Óscar) |
Iker Muñoz |
| Goemon Ishikawa XIII | Paul Muniain (as Francis) |
José María Carrero |
| Fujiko Mine | Luz Emparanza (as Patricia) |
Raquel Martín |
| Inspector Koichi Zenigata | Mario Hernández (as Basilio) |
Ángel Rodríguez |
| Tiger Brothers | Unknown Unknown |
Unknown Unknown |
| Almighty | Unknown | Unknown |
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Censorship[]
Italian[]
When the episode was aired on Italian TV airings, there are some edits when Lupin faces Tiger for the first time due to blood:
- When Tiger shot Lupin in the head, there is a bullet hole with blood coming out. Instead of cutting this part out, it was edited to show the petals and slowed down the timing to make it hard to know that the scene was edited.
- There is a quick cut on Lupin after falling on the floor.
- There is a freeze frame of Lupin replacing the close up that shows blood on his head.
After the opening, Almighty comes down on the helicopter and tells Lupin that the blood was actually ketchup. This scene is cut out.
Notes[]
- The English title that appeared on Crunchyroll that originally came from the Spanish Telecinco and Animax dubs is a reference to the James Bond story, "You Only Live Twice" and also a name connection to Part 2 Episode 32.
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| 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | |
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