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"Flowers of Suicide Bloom in India" is the 60th episode of Lupin the 3rd Part 2.

Synopsis[]

Bandit leader Basara is determined to sniff out the location of the diamonds Lupin has hidden somewhere in India. Armed with his sinister invention, the Suicide Ray Gun, he tries to make Lupin talk, even trying his luck with a fake Fujiko.

Long Summary[]

Warning: The episode has suicide themes that is portrayed in a humorous way and are considered dangerous.

In India, Koichi Zenigata with the local police had caught Lupin III and Daisuke Jigen transporting them to Japan however they were stopped by "snake charmers". They shot Zenigata and the police officers with a ray causing the officers to shoot themselves. Lupin and Jigen try to flee but were attacked by the enemy and were captured by Basara Laburn. Zenigata recovers informing the police boss about the incident and it was the Basara army who were involved.

At Basara's place, Lupin knows Basara who was a scientist who got expelled from an academic society and became a gang leader. Basara threats Lupin about the location of 20,000 diamonds but refuses to tell him. Both Lupin and Jigen try to take advantage but Basara launches them down a trap door towards a hole, then firing towards an elephant who charged directly towards a wall and fired a ray squeezing Lupin and Jigen into a tight spot. Lupin wondered why as only three people knew about the diamonds but Jigen figured out that it was Fujiko Mine who told Basara about the diamonds. Lupin gets out a pocket knife with a communicator trying to tell Goemon Ishikawa XIII in Kolkata (Calcutta) for help however he was meditating. Fujiko deactivates the ray freeing Lupin and Jigen out of the building that turned out to be the Taj Mahal, she also tells Lupin that she had a communicator as well.

Basara and his army go after Lupin, Jigen and Fujiko but they got trapped with a herd of cows causing them to get into a jeep to drive away. Fujiko was "unaware" of the diamonds and dumps Lupin, he goes after her and after a kiss tells her that the diamonds were at Kolkata. Lupin and Jigen argue causing them to fall into a quicksand pit. Basara arrives and Fujiko begs him to save Lupin and Jigen, she tells Basara that the diamonds are at Mumbai (Bombay) causing him to leave even though he was suspicious of Fujiko refusing. Fujiko then drives off, Lupin and Jigen escaped the pit due to the rope that was connected to the jeep.

Basara launched a balloon out of the Taj Mahal to look for the diamonds, he noticed that Fujiko was heading towards Kolkata and not Mumbai. Fujiko got caught in the traffic unable to move, Basara then fires his Suicide Ray at her and his soldiers destroy a part of the city with bulldozers. Lupin then looks for Fujiko and misses a shot from a soldier. Basara saves Fujiko as she headed towards a cliff and Lupin finds her. Fujiko held a bottle of potassium cyanide and drinks, Lupin thinking she was dying rushes towards her and "she" exploded. It turned out that Fujiko was tied up above Lupin as it was actually a cure, Basara says it was a "time bomb of suicide beams" and Lupin picked up a "suicide disease". (Due to the plot and translation, it is likely that Basara threw a grenade filled with the suicidal causing material and during the explosion, Basara grabs and ties Fujiko but this is unclear to the viewer.)

Lupin attempts to commit suicide however Jigen saves him by disarming his Walther P38 and grabbing him as he jumps off a cliff. An informant lets Basara know that they found the diamonds and travels to Kolkata where Goemon is held. Basara's army try to move Goemon but was unable to, Basara then tries the Suicide Ray however since Goemon was meditating, it had no effect.

A tree branch gets broken causing Lupin (who is happy at the thought of killing himself) and Jigen to fall towards Zenigata's boat. Lupin then grabs Zenigata's rope and tries to hang himself, he bits Zenigata's arm when trying to resist. Zenigata had picked up Lupin's suicidal thoughts that Basara mentions being contagious and shoots himself aiming at his hat, he fell down. Jigen jumps off the boat with Lupin following him.

It turned out that Basara's army put Goemon on a balloon, a soldier tried firing the Suicide Ray at Goemon but he reflected the shot with the Zantetsuken causing the soldier to commit suicide by falling out of the balloon. The other soldiers opened the trunk that turned out to be cow dung and disposed of the waste.

Jigen caught Lupin and with Goemon's help, put cow dung into Lupin's mouth curing him from his suicide thoughts with the side effect of unable to remember what happened. Basara and his soldiers then try to fire at them from their balloon as Zenigata recovers from the thoughts. Lupin, Jigen and Goemon launch a flaming large wooden arrow towards Basara's balloon causing it to explode.

At an unknown port, the gang transported cows to a ship. It revealed that Lupin hid a diamond inside each of the 20,000 cows with the ship heading towards Yokohama.

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
Basara Laburn Tamio Oki

Additional voices:[1]

  • Junkichi Kamada
  • Masashi Hirose
  • Takashi Taguchi
Italian ("L’Epidemia dei Suicidi")
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
Basara Laburn Valerio Ruggeri
(as Basala Lavahna)
Spanish ("Oleada de suicidios en la India" / "Una bomba suicida en la india")
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
Basara Laburn Unknown Unknown
English ("Holy Cow")
Characters Voice Actors
Lupin III Tony Oliver
Daisuke Jigen Richard Epcar
Goemon Ishikawa XIII Lex Lang
Fujiko Mine Michelle Ruff
Inspector Koichi Zenigata Dan Lorge
Basara Laburn Bob Papenbrook
(as Basala Lavahna)

Additional Voices:

  • David Lodge
  • Richard Cansino

Gallery[]

Title Card

Censorship[]

Italian[]

(Find out what was cut from this episode)

In the original TV airings as well as the DVD and Blu-ray releases, the episode is uncut however since 1987 when Mediaset got rights to the show, it was edited. Despite the edits, this episode was skipped during transmission due to the suicide theme until the 2000s. In 2019, this episode was re-transmitted during both its runs.

Mistakes[]

An elephant commits suicide by a single blow to the head after running into a stone wall. Elephants have air pockets in their skulls so they can ram into each other during mating season or knock down trees without harming themselves.

While in the quicksand, Lupin's mouth is still moving after he stops talking. The English dub fixes this by giving Lupin more dialogue, and the Italian dub has his and Jigen's dialogue overlap.

How come Zenigata's missed shots to the head cured him?

Translation Notes[]

In the English dub, Bombay was changed to Mumbai as it is the current and official name of the city since 1995. Calcutta was not changed to Kolkata despite the city changing its name in 2001.

Notes[]

  • The episode is rated 43rd according to the staff at TMS under the title Holly Cow. [1]
  • Zenigata and Lupin hum "If You're Happy and You Know It" in both the Japanese original and English.

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References[]

  1. 第60話 インドに自殺の花が咲く. www.mau2.com (in Japanese)