Producer:Yamato
Video Region: 2
Retail price: 49900Lire (each volume)
Languages:
italian mono (1979)
italian remixed on DD5.1 from mono master
japanese (1971)
DVD Format: DVD5 (single side, single layer) for all 5 discs
Volume numbers: 5 (for whole series: 23 episodes + Pilot Film)
Item Codes: YD-0002~YD-0006 Subtitles: none (but in 5th volume there is Pilot Film with
only japanese track and italian subtitles)
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Running time: 120 min each one (100 only for last)
Character presentation
Lupin III is grandson of famous french thief Arsene Lupin. His gang is
composed by Daisuke Jigen, a great gunman, Goemon Ishikawa XIII, the
samurai
you can cut everything with his own Zantetsuken, and Fujiko Mine,
Lupin’s
girlfriend but often his rival. Lupin is followed by inspector Zenigata
of Tokyo Metropolitan Police.
About DVD version
At last it’s available whole 1st TV series with censorship. This
version
contains 1st italian dub made in 1979, in fact it has got many errors
into
dialogues and it is poor in voice numbers (only 4 actors into 1st part
of series), but main voice characters are very good (most of all Lupin
(Roberto Del Giudice) and Zenigata (Enzo Consoli) ).
TV series has divided on 5 discs.
Each volume (1~4) contains:
1. five episodes
2. special features:
a presentation (or file) of 4 pages with original settei'
(Pilot Film
and
TV Series) of each personage: 1st volume on Lupin, 2nd one on Jigen,
3rd
one on Goemon, 4th one on Fujiko and last one on Zenigata
5th volume contains:
Last three episodes
Special features:
FILE ZENIGATA;
italian trailer of DVD version;
all original opening and closing songs (4 openings and 1
closing, but
there
is one error, because there aren’t two variations of 2nd opening and
other
two variations of closing);
Pilot Film (13 min of presentation of characters, it made in
1969) in
its
two versions: Cinemascope (letterbox) and in Full screen [this movie is
only in japanese language with italian subtitles].
Episodes are edited as a movie, namely without opening and closing,
episode
trailers has been cut because they dubbed in italian in 1979. In the
begining
there is original italian opening song of 1979, it has got same video
of
last japanese opening, but it has as audio: Planet O, a song in english
sung by Daisy Daze and The Bumble Bees, here in Italy it’s considered
more
beautiful than original japanese song: Lupin ‘71. In the end
there
is original japanes closing song with italian credits.
Video Quality
The video has got from japanese tape masters, in fact image is clean,
bright
colors, some defect (if you are perfectionist) because of film age.
There
is some artifact into opening and closing, into episodes in dark scenes
if you are very careful.
The japanese video has got good, also if it has interlaced frames,
but (only for this episode) into 2nd part of episodes #17 (4th disc)
there
is a change of tape, the detoriation is much evident, worse contrast,
shelled
image, dirty colors. I think that this detoriation is of original
japanese
tapes, I have listent that it is present also on anime-comics version
of
TV series.
Audio Quality
That italian is very good ^_^, it’s been cleaned and there is also a
remix
in DD5.1 (I prefered italian subtitles :( ), but it isn't very
important
because TV series born in mono in Japan.
Original japanese track has got a lower volume then italian mono, it
isn’t been cleaned.
I advise to all japanese fans, because it is cheaper for them ^_^,
and
american fans could help with scripts there are on the Net.
I watched them on my PC with Realmagic Hollywood Plus,
monitor 17’’
ADI ProVista E55, resolution at 1024x768, SoundBlaster 128 PCI.
Ryu
<gdichiara@libero.it>
Created 12th April 2001
Last Modification 7th June 2002