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Lupin the 3rd: Bye Bye, Lady Liberty (special)

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Alternative title:

Goodbye Lady Liberty (French)

Lupin III - Bye Bye Liberty: Scoppia la crisi! (Italian)

Lupin III: Bye Bye Liberty Crisis

Lupin III: Goodbye Lady Liberty! (Spanish)

Lupin III: Il virus Beta (Italian)

Lupin III: Lupin e il mago dei computers (Italian)

Lupin III: ¡Adiós señora Libertad! (Spanish)

Rupan Sansei: Bye Bye Liberty - Kiki Ippatsu! (Japanese)

ルパン三世『バイバイ・リバティー危機一発！』 (Japanese)

Genres: action, adventure, comedy, science fiction

Themes: crime, mischief, thief

Objectionable content: Significant

Plot Summary: In this adventure, Lupin III tries to erase the files about him in the world police network. He finds out about the Ultravirus, a computer virus that controls all others and its location is only known by a little kid. Meanwhile, he steals the Statue of Liberty to look for a diamond the size of a football that is said to be hidden somewhere in it. Apparently, the diamond and the ultravirus are somehow related...

User Ratings: 80 ratings have been given [details]

Masterpiece: 4 votes (sub:4)

Excellent: 2 votes (sub:1, others:1

1 Russian subtitled

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Very good: 10 votes (sub:7, dub:2, others:1

1 Italian dubbed

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Good: 31 votes (sub:19, dub:9, ?:1, others:2

2 Spanish subtitled

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Decent: 17 votes (sub:10, dub:4, edit.dub:1, others:2

2 French subtitled

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So-so: 8 votes (sub:6, raw:1, ?:1)

Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)

Weak: 6 votes (sub:4, dub:2)

Bad: -

Awful: -

Worst ever: -

Seen in part or in whole by 190 users, rank: #3216 (of 7436)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.537 (Good−), std. dev.: 1.5807, rank: #4187 (of 7458)
Weighted mean: 6.502 (Good−), rank: #4267 (of 7458) (seen all: 6.52 / seen some: 5.00)
Bayesian estimate: 6.643 (Good−), rank: #3597 (of 5635)

Running time: 97 minutes

Vintage: 1989-04-01

Release dates: We have 3

Opening Theme:

"Rupan Sansei no Thema 1989" by Yuji Ohno

Ending Theme:

"Endoresu Towairaito - Saigo no Shinju (Endless Twilight -- The Last Pearl)" by Akemi Yoshida

Official website:

Columbia Music Entertainment's Official Lupin III Soundtrack Page (Japanese)

Lupin the 3rd Network (Japanese)

Trivia: We have 18

News: Show: 4 5

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Shelf Life - Lupin the 3rd: Bye Bye, Lady Liberty (Jul 30, 2018)

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DVD (Region 1)

Lupin the 3rd: Bye Bye, Lady Liberty (DVD) 2014-03-25

Japanese staff

Japanese cast

Director: Osamu Dezaki

Screenplay: Hiroshi Kashiwabara

Storyboard: Makura Saki

Music: Yuji Ohno

Original Concept: Maurice Leblanc

Original creator: Monkey Punch

Character Design: Noboru Furuse

Art Director: Mitsuki Nakamura

Animation Director: Noboru Furuse

Director of Photography:
Hirokata Takahashi
Taizo Matsuzaki

Producer:
Hidehiko Takei
Motoyoshi Tokunaga
Yutaka Yasuda

Assistant Animation Director:
Kuni Tomita
Yasuchika Nagaoka
Yuzo Sato

Assistant Director: Toshiya Shinohara

Assistant Unit Director: Hiroyuki Yano

Editing: Masatoshi Tsurubuchi

In-Between Check:
Hisao Yamazaki
Yasuhiro Sekine

Music Director: Seiji Suzuki

Planning: Yasuji Takahashi

Production manager:
Fumikazu Matsumoto
Shinji Takahashi

Recording Director: Satoshi Katō

Scenario Director: Junichi Iioka

Eiko Masuyama as Fujiko Mine

Gorō Naya as Inspector Zenigata

Kiyoshi Kobayashi as Jigen Daisuke

Makio Inoue as Goemon Ishikawa XIII

Yasuo Yamada as Arsene Lupin III

Yui Komazuka as Isabel

Atsushi Ii as Sheriff

Kenichi Ogata as Ed

Kenyuu Horiuchi as Computer

Masane Tsukayama as Jimi Kantsu

Mayumi Tanaka as Micheal

Michio Sakiyama as Silverman

Minoru Inaba as TV Announcer

Mitsuaki Hoshino as Paris City police employee

Naoko Kouda as Judy

Tamio Ohki as Ruusuta

Unshō Ishizuka as Johns

Yousuke Akimoto as Taxi driver

Japanese companies

Backgrounds:
AD Cosmo
Design Office MECAMAN
Studio Fuga

Broadcaster:
Bandai Channel
Nippon Television Network

Finish Animation:
C&D
Office Next-One
Osaka Anime World
Studio Egg
Studio Gallop
studio noel
Studio Robin

In-Between Animation:
AD Cosmo
Nakamura Production
Oh! Production
Studio Boomerang
Studio DEEN
Studio Egg
Studio NASA
Studio Warp
Studio Wombat

Music Production: VAP

Photography: Takahashi Production

Production: Tokyo Movie Shinsha

English cast

English staff

Dubbing Director: George Roubicek

Executive producer: Laurence Guinness

Casting: Jill Wilmot

Commentary: Mike Toole (Discotek DVD)

Dubbing Mixing: Ted Spooner

Liner Notes:
Ben Ettinger (Discotek DVD)
Reed Nelson (Discotek DVD)

Re-Recording Engineer: Clive Mitchison

Script Adaptation: George Roubicek

Bill Dufries as Wolf (Lupin)

Eric Meyers as Jigen

Garrick Hagen as Goemon

Sean Barrett as Insp. Koichi Zenigata

Toni Barry as Fujiko

Don Fellows as Silverman

Lisa Ross as Isabella

Peter Marinka as Jimmy

Sue Sheridon as Micheal

Susan Sheridan as Michael

English companies

Dubbing/Distribution: Manga Entertainment (UK)

Licensed by: Discotek Media

French staff

French cast

(none)

Patrick Bethune as Goemon

Jacques Albaret as Inspecteur Zenigata

Patrick Bethune as
Chauffeur de taxi
Silverman/Numéro 1

French companies

Distributor: Manga Video

Dubbing: Les studios de Saint Maur

Spanish staff

Spanish cast

(none)

Alvaro María Sánchez as Goemon Ishikawa (Spain dub)

Armando Coria as Goemon Ishikawa XIII (Latin American dub)

Juan Alfonso Carralero as Daisuke Jigen (Latin American dub)

Juan Carlos Loriz as Inspector Zenigata (Spain dub)

Laura Ayala as Fujiko Mine (Latin American dub)

Mónica Erdozia as Fujiko Mine (Spain dub)

Ricardo Tejedo as Arsene Lupin III (Latin American dub)

Txema Mocoso as Lupin III (Spain dub)

Txema Moscoso as Lupin III (Spain dub)

Kalimba Marichal as Michael (Latin American dub)

Luis Daniel Ramirez as Inspector Zenigata (Latin American dub)

Rebeca Manriquez as Isabella (Latin American dub)

Ana Begoña Eguileor as Judy (Spain dub)

Ana Teresa Bengoetxea as Michael (Spain dub)

Francisco Javier Pombo as Roosier (Spain dub)

J. Ramón Fernández as Silvermann (Spain dub)

José María Regalado as Jones (Spain dub)

Josu Valera as Computor (Spain dub)

Juan Ramón Fernández de Castro as Silverman (Spain dub)

Kepa Cueto as Jimmy (Spain dub)

Maribel Legarreta as Isabella (Spain dub)

Manu Heras (Spain dub)

Spanish companies

Broadcaster: The Film Zone

Distributor: Selecta Visión (Spain)

DVD Distribution: Selecta Visión (Spain)

Italian staff

Italian companies

Dubbing Director: Ada Maria Serra Zanetti

Dubbing Supervision: Ludovica Bonanome

Mixage: Stefano Morandi

Mixing: Paolo Nagy

Production Supervision: Giorgio Bassanelli Bisbal

Sound Technician: Massimo Sinceri

Synchronization: Salvatore Fabozzi

Broadcaster:
Hiro
Italia 1
Italia 2

Distributor:
Medusa Film (VHS)
Shin Vision
Yamato Video

Dubbing Company: MI.TO Film

Recording: Cooperativa Eddy Cortese

Italian cast

Alessandra Korompay as Fujiko Mine

Antonio Palumbo as Goemon Ishikawa

Enzo Consoli as Zenigata

Roberto Del Giudice as Lupin

Sandro Pellegrini as Daisuke Jigen

Ilaria Stagni as Michael

Tagalog staff

Tagalog cast

(none)

Francis Ibanez as Jigen Daisuke

Tagalog companies

(none)

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