Goodbye Lady Liberty
| Goodbye Lady Liberty | |
| File:Lupin III Liberty DVD.jpg
North American cover artwork by Discotek Media
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| バイバイ·リバティー危機一発! (Bai Bai Ribatī – Kiki Ippatsu!) |
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| Genre | Adventure, Comedy-drama, Kaitō |
| Anime television film | |
| Directed by | Osamu Dezaki |
| Produced by | Hidehiko Takei Motoyoshi Tokunaga Yutaka Yasuda |
| Written by | Hiroshi Kashiwabara |
| Music by | Yuji Ohno |
| Studio | TMS Entertainment |
| Licensed by | |
| Network | NTV |
| Released | April 1, 1989 |
| Runtime | 97 minutes |
Goodbye Lady liberty (ルパン三世 バイバイ·リバティー危機一発! Rupan Sansei Bai Bai Ribatī – Kiki Ippatsu!?) was the first television special in the Lupin III franchise. Directed by veteran director Osamu Dezaki, it was broadcast by NTV on April 4, 1989. A number of Lupin III television specials have followed with a total of 23 airing as of December 2012, as well as an additional crossover special with Detective Conan.
Plot
Lupin is forced to give up his life of crime when he discovers police computers are able to predict his every move. His retirement is short-lived when his colleague Jigen inherits the secret location of a stolen giant diamond called the "Super Egg", which is hidden in the Statue of Liberty; Lupin helps recover the diamond by stealing the entire Statue. Meanwhile, Goemon becomes bodyguard to a beautiful woman who is on the run from a sinister secret society which is also seeking the Super Egg.
Production
The special was directed by Osamu Dezaki, an experienced anime director who had previously storyboarded several episodes of Lupin The Third Part I.[1] In addition Dezaki created the storyboards under the pseudonym Makura Saki, something he commonly did despite being well known for creating his own storyboards.[2]
During his career Dezaki created many animation techniques that became standard in the Japanese animation industry and are used throughout the special. One of his best known techniques "Postcard memories", also commonly known as "Harmony" involved adding painted lines to a cel to give the appearance of a watercolor effect and provide visual impact with minimal animation. While this technique is normally used to end a scene, during the special it is also used during action scenes.[3][4] Another signature technique used during the special is the "triple take" where a cel is moved quickly across the camera multiple times to produce a sense of speed. The name comes from it's typical usage of 3 passes of the cel.[5] Lighting techniques used techniques include backlit backgrounds, gel effects, lighting bloom in the corner of a scene and diagonal spotlights across heavily shadowed images to produce a sense of darkness. other techniques include Parallax scrolling to give depth to city scenes, split screens and dutch angle.[6][7][8][9]
Voice cast
| Character | Japanese | English[10] |
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| Arsène Lupin III | Yasuo Yamada | Bill Dufries as Wolf III |
| Fujiko Mine | Eiko Masuyama | Toni Barry |
| Daisuke Jigen | Kiyoshi Kobayashi | Eric Meyers |
| Goemon Ishikawa XIII | Makio Inoue | Garrick Hagen |
| Inspector Koichi Zenigata | Gorō Naya | Sean Barret |
| Isabel | Yui Komazuka | Liza Ross as Isabella |
| Michael | Mayumi Tanaka | Sue Sheridon |
| Jimmy | Tsukayama Masune | Peter Marinka |
| Silverman | Michio Sakiyama | Don Fellows |
| Ed | Kenichi Ogata | Colin Bruce |
| Jones | Unshō Ishizuka | Bob Sherman |
| Rooster | Tamio Ōki | |
| Judy | Naoko Kouda | Sue Sheridon |
| News Anchor | Minoru Inaba | Colin Bruce |
| Cab Driver | Yōsuke Akimoto | Bob Sherman |
| Computer | Kenyu Horiuchi | Don Fellows |
| Policeman | Mitsuaki Hoshino | Garrick Hagen |
| Sheriff | Atsushi Ii | Colin Bruce |
Release
Goodbye Lady Liberty was broadcast on April 4, 1989.[11]
VAP have published several home releases of the special in Japan. At first the special was released as both a VHS and a Laserdisc edition.[12] They then released the special on DVD on December 22, 1999 and again in April 2006.[13] A DVD containing both Liberty and the next special, Hemingway Papers was released by Futabasha on July 4, 2014.[14] The soundtrack was released on October 21, 2000.[15]
Manga Entertainment UK released an English dubbed VHS as Goodbye Lady Liberty in the United Kingdom on 9 September 1996.[16] Discotek Media released the special on DVD in North America as Bye Bye Lady Liberty on March 25, 2014.[17]
Reception
In 500 Essential Anime Movies Helen McCarthy called Liberty her personal favourite of the Lupin TV specials. She describes it as "light, funny and entertaining" and "terrific entertainment".[18] Reviewing Liberty for Manga Mania, John Spencer felt it was a "rather routine television movie, with none of the flair and style of the previous films". He compares the secrecy of one of the characters to Scooby-Doo and in summary describes the film as "not classic Lupin...but good enough".[19]
References
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External links
- Lupin III Encyclopedia
- Goodbye Lady Liberty (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- "Lupin the Third: Bye Bye, Lady Liberty" at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
