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Lupin III: The Columbus Files

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Lupin III: The Columbus Files, released in Japan in 1999 as Ai no da capo ~Fujiko's Unlucky Days~ note 愛のダ·カーポ ~Fujiko's Unlucky Days~ , is the eleventh entry in the Made-for-TV Movie series of Lupin III Yearly Specials and the last Lupin III entry of the 20th century. The director of is none other than Shinichi Watanabe, who later went on to direct Excel♡Saga. Funimation released it with an English language dub in 2005 as the ninth of the ten Lupin films/TV movies they acquired for distribution, and it was also included in the 2006 "Final Haul" boxset.Fujiko Mine is unveiling her latest scheme to Arsène Lupin III over a romantic dinner: she has found and memorized the "Columbus Files", a set of documents that reveal the location of a mysterious lost treasure, the Columbus Egg. Before she can tell him more, their evening is interrupted by the rascally Nazaroff, sent to retrieve the information Fujiko has. As she and Lupin flee, however, they end up falling over a cliff. Lupin loses his grip, and Fujiko slips away...Later, treasure hunter Rosaria returns to her home to find a frightened young woman hiding there; it turns out to be Fujiko, stricken with amnesia from her fall and traumatized by flashes of the attack. Even when Fujiko eventually reunites with Lupin and the gang, she can remember nothing. To make things worse, Nazaroff and his boss wants the information from the Columbus Files locked away in Fujiko's missing memory. It's up to her friends and Rosaria, also tied into the mysterious documents somehow, to keep Fujiko out of the hands of the enemy, restore her to her normal self, and find out what the secret of the Columbus Egg really is.Complete spoilers below — don't read further if you don't want to know how this caper turns out!
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Hulking Out: Barton, after exposing himself to the energy from the Columbus Egg. See the Super-Strength example below.
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Right-Hand Cat: Barton has one. It ends up betraying him.
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Lupin also came prepared with nightvision goggles, for when Jigen and Goemon cut the underwater power conduits. Plus, rocket powered shoes for fake surrendering!
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Take My Hand!: Lupin to Fujiko. However, she slips out of his grasp.
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Ammunition Backpack: Jigen takes one on the final assault on the temple.
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Mythology Gag: The movie has Nazaroff wearing a green jacket, versus Lupin, who's wearing a red one. Get it?
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Chivalrous Pervert: Lupin, as always. However, after he realizes how severe Fujiko's amnesia is, he backs way off on the "pervert" part.
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Damsel in Distress: Fujiko fills this slot for most of the film. Having lost her memory, she finds herself terrified of situations she's usually accustomed to. She even surprised herself when she instinctively dodged a shot, grabbed Lupin's gun, and returned fire from pure muscle memory.
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Villainous Crush: Nazaroff becomes increasingly infatuated with Fujiko as the film progresses, to the point of fighting Lupin over her in the midst of a waterspout!
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Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud: As long as you don't touch it, you can even fly an airplane past it!
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Crazy-Prepared: Lupin as always. He had a fake ID for sneaking into Barton's research facility and his jacket was reversible, becoming a labcoat. When Rozaria remarks about how he seems prepared, he pulls out a second labcoat from his briefcase, since he knew she'd follow him! Lupin also came prepared with nightvision goggles, for when Jigen and Goemon cut the underwater power conduits. Plus, rocket powered shoes for fake surrendering!
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Kiss of Life: Goemon on Jigen. To be specific, Goemon on Jigen twenty-seven times. Jigen is not happy at all.
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Easy Amnesia: Fujiko has a textbook example for the entire film.
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Amnesiacs are Innocent: Fujiko is timid and frightens easily during her bout of amnesia, which is such a stark contrast to her typical seductive cat-burglar persona that Lupin could hardly believe it was really her. Which is how finally realized that she wasn't faking it.
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Quoted word for word by Fujiko when they come across a snake pit.
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Homoerotic Subtext: The beach scene with Jigen and Goemon. And yes, while the mouth-to-mouth is explained, why Goemon had to take most of his clothes off to do it is not. Rosaria has plenty with the amnesiac Fujiko. She says it's because she wants the secrets of the Columbus File, but her concern for Fujiko and the lengths she goes to, to protect her, suggests that may not be her only reason. At one point, she even jokingly asks Lupin if they can "share" Fujiko.
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Author Avatar: Nazaroff is Lupin with an Afro, which mirrors director Nabeshin's own distinctive look.
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Spell My Name with an S: Nazaroff's name has also been spelled as Nazarov, Nazalov, Nazalhov, and Nazalloff. Rosaria appears onscreen as "Rosalia"
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Gag Dub: A brilliant running gag for those familiar with both Funimation and Geneon's concurrently running dubs, where Lupin, Jigen, and Goemon constantly bicker about the correct pronunciations of their names with each other, much as fans of each dub did back when they were originally released. Such a running gag takes the place of Goemon's usual catchphrase before and after he slices the building.
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Identity Amnesia: Fujiko has such a severe case that she loses her normal Femme Fatale personality and becomes a Damsel in Distress.
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Super-Strength: Bestowed on Barton once he harnesses the power of the Columbus Egg. Unfortunately, it also comes with the side effect of Unstoppable Rage.
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Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Though it's assumed that Fujiko lost her memories through a concussion caused by the fall, she is often haunted by the image of an ominous-looking hand trying to grab her. At the film's climax, when she finally manages to take Lupin's hand, she breaks through her trauma, causing her to regain her memories.
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Annoying Laugh: A detail regarding Nazaroff that allows Lupin to recognize him. One that sounds like a pig snorting. Lupin lampshades it a few times, especially when Nazaroff has the laugh recorded on tape to play on loop!
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Split-Personality Makeover: Fujiko sort of gets a very subtle one: As soon as she has lost her memories, she loses the color on her lips. It reappears when she's back to normal.
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I Shall Taunt You: Nazaroff never misses an opportunity to call Rozaria an amateur, each time she allows herself to be distracted during their fights.
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Second, by slicing an entire building in half, while leaving Lupin and Fujiko unharmed, even though the cut was made parallel their location inside the building. Which causes Fujiko to pass out from the fright of nearly being cut in two, while Lupin has a word with Goemon.
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Improbable Aiming Skills: Fujiko gets to display hers in the opening. While she and Lupin are making a getaway on Lupin's motorcycle, she draws Lupin's Walther pistol from his underpants, turns around on the rear seat, and opens fire at an opposing attack helicopter. The shot nails the pilot dead in the head through the windshield. The 9 mm round making its way through a probably bullet-resistant windshield can be dismissed as Lupin having loaded his gun with special bullets, but being able to make a shot like that from a motorcycle moving over rough ground into a moving airborne target is no mean feat.
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Third, he saves the day by cutting through a friggin' tornado, causing it to dissipate. All in a day's work for Goemon Ishikawa.
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Action Girl: Rozaria's a deepsea diver and salvages relics. She's not bad with a knife either, except Nazaroff always gets the better of her, 'cuz she keeps being distracted.
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Absurdly Sharp Blade: Buildings, boats, and so on and so forth. Typical day for Zantetsuken.
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Interrupted Intimacy: By way of Macross Missile Massacre! Just as Lupin and Fujiko were about to get it on, Nazaroff's men launch a surprise attack to steal the Columbus File.
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Percussive Maintenance: Goemon's other specialty. First, during the boat chase scene when the outboard motor dies on the gang, Lupin berates and kicks at it to no effect. He begs Goemon to work his magic; a solid karate chop from Goemon gets the motor working even better than before! Second, in the concluding credits, the gang has crash-landed in the water with a biplane. The engine is dead, but Goemon chops it back to life, and the gang make a getaway on the plane—now improvised as a boat.
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Bound and Gagged: Fujiko, while she's being held hostage by Nazaroff.
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Malicious Misnaming: In the English Dub, Lupin almost constantly refers to Nazaroff as "Nasal Cough".
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