Lupin the Third: From Siberia with Love (ルパン三世 ロシアより愛をこめて)

The night before the Russian revolution in 1917,

Emperor Nicholas II was living a life in luxury

and never could he have dreamt that he would be the last emperor.

At that time, the Russian gold reserve had reached 1240 tons.

It was 20% of the worlds gold reserve, one of the largest amounts in the world.

It was second only to America's gold reserve.

However, behind the scenes, there was inflation, increasing unemployment...

accelerating starvation...

and the lives of many people in the country were about to collapse.

Later that same year Rasputin, who served Nicholas II

and did all sorts of evil things, was assassinated.

Then, in March of 1917, there was a riot in Petersburg...

and Nicholas II was forced to resign in the evening of the 15th of March...

dropping the curtain on the Romanov Dynasty's 300-year rule of Russia.

After that, the Romanov family was executed in Ekaterinburg...

...where they were being held prisoner.

This was Princess Tatiana's dog Jerry, which she was very attached to.

History is such an interesting thing, isn't it?

This picture looks exactly like the picture of Lenin's statue being knocked down.

New York City Library, Audio-Visual Room

Hey, where are you going?

I'm too old to take history classes.

You're never too old to learn.

At that time, the Russian gold reserve had reached 1240 tons.

If you wanted to get the Romanov Dynasty's gold, you should've done it in 1917.

It was taken away a long time ago.

However, actual history isn't the same as what's written in the books.

New York City Library

The best place to look for a missing person in this city is in the coroner's office.

It's hot outside, but the air conditioning works well in there.

So it's natural for people to go there...

You're probably right.

...but the air conditioning in the library works too.

Well, this is a scary story.

The fact is, the Romanov family wasn't executed.

Yurovsky, the chief of the secret police, sympathized with the Romanov family.

He secretly let the family escape from the place where they were confined,

and he acted as if the family was executed.

Isn't the air conditioning in here too strong?

And Nicholas II, who successfully escaped, gave Yurovsky

500 tons of gold to show his gratitude.

500 tons!?

Right. Not grams, but tons!

And that gold is still hidden somewhere?

Exactly.

What's proving that?

You're too skeptical.

People become skeptical when they know you.

Anyways, the Romanov family had pretty daughters.

Oh, this girl, this girl.

This is Anastasia, the fourth daughter, who was famous for her beauty.

She showed up in the US media, as she lived in America before she died.

19...uh, what year was that?

Hmph. There are various opinions about that. You never know if that was real.

There's one more piece of evidence. If you see it, you'll know.

Bad luck. That book was rented yesterday.

Ouch, ouch...

Please come back next week.

No, no, no. I can't wait that long.

Could you please tell me who borrowed it?

There was another man who asked the same question about one hour ago.

Really? He came to borrow the same book?

That man also asked who had borrowed it.

But I told him I wouldn't say, even if he was Tom Cruise.

Ouch. If you didn't look like Madonna,

I wouldn't have asked you about it this persistently.

I can cancel my plans for tonight.

Maybe I should cancel my plans for tonight, too.

How about the Oyster bar at the Plaza Hotel, by the window at 8?

Why don't we get a room as well?

So, blah blah blah...

But... blah blah...is also....blah blah...

Lupin!

Shut up!

Lupin, that's Pops, I'm sure of it.

Don't say I didn't warn you...

That can't be right.

There's no way that Pops would be in an educational building.

See you, Lupin!

Lupin! You're under arrest!

Hey, Pops!

Planning

Hidehiko Takei

Original

Monkey Punch

Screenplay

Hiroshi Kashiwabara

Lupin III

Yasuo Yamada

Inspector Zenigata

Goro Naya

LUPIN III

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From Russia with Love

Daisuke Jigen

Kiyoshi Kobayashi

It's got to be here somewhere.

Goemon Ishikawa

Makio Inoue

Fujiko Mine

Eiko Masuyama

Music

Yuji Ohno

Director of Photography

Hajime Hasegawa

Music Director

Suzuki Kiyoshi

Recording Director

Satoshi Kato

Animation Director

Yasuchikai Nagaoka

Art Director

Hiroyuki Mitsumoto

Script Supervision

Iioka Junichi

Editing

Masatoshi Tsurubuchi

Production

Keitaro Motonaga

Naoki Hashigawa

Producer

Hibiki Ito

Tadahito Matsumoto

Director

Osamu Dezkai

Would someone in this kind of dirty place borrow a book?

Maybe there's someone truly intelligent here somewhere.

This is it. Columbus, Room 507.

Hey man, gimme some money.

Good evening.

Who is it?

Judy? This is Judy Scott, isn't it?

Do I look like a bad guy?

Do I look like a suspicious guy?

Suspicious enough.

We... we're second-class mystery novel authors, and we'd like to read the book

you borrowed from the city library. "The Ransom of King Romanov", for our research.

That book is out of print, and we're running out of time for our release.

The door is open.

Face towards the wall and spread your legs.

Okay, okay. How's this?

You were taking a shower? Sorry to disturb you.

You smell good from that shower.

The eau de toilette is "Ara Mista".

It's ok to turn around, but do it slowly.

If you try something funny, I'll shoot you any time.

No man can complain about being killed

when he comes into a room where a woman is all by herself.

I won't complain.

You have half an hour to look at it, then I have to go out.

Okay, okay.

It's a third-class mystery. It's not worth researching.

Why did you borrow such a book?

Only a few hundred copies were published in the 1950's,

and the only copy that still exists is this one.

I found it by accident, and I also have a college major in Russian history.

There's no mistake about it, that book is the one.

Then let's go in. We can kill them all and get the book.

Not so fast, Big.

Does that book really have the answer to where Romanov's gold is?

The daughter of Nicholas II came to America, right?

The person who accompanied her was the author of this book.

I see.

Looks like they were out of money.

We'd better hurry.

Yeah.

What do you want?

Give us our guns back.

I still don't trust you guys.

It's not a matter of whether you trust us or not.

Get outta the way.

Move!

I said get outta the way!

Lupin.

They got away.

Shit!

How about the bedroom?

No one's there.

Hey, do you know them?

No, they're not my friends.

Have you been involved with many guys? Or maybe with many girls?

They could've caused this problem.

I behave better than most girls.

Well, their target is this bestseller book.