Hayao Miyazaki is a peak of the Japanese animation industry in the twentieth century, his works, from the aspects of picture modeling, character design and script creation, can see the influence of traditional Japanese aesthetics on it, born in 1941, Because of his unique creative techniques, keen creative perspective, the combination of Traditional Japanese culture and animation, so that Japanese animation is unique in world animation, becoming a peak of Japanese animation in the twentieth century.
Throughout Miyazaki's works, "Spirited Away", "Castle in the Sky", "Totoro" and other works are his masterpieces, but there are always some "fish that have slipped through the net" that are not well known, of which "Lupin III: The City of Cario Strozero" has been ignored.
In 1979, the director "Lupin III Cariostero City" won the highest award of animation - the Mainichi Film Performance Noburo Oto Award, and won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award "Academy Award" and other domestic and international awards.
The City of Lupin III Cariostro is considered the first in the entire series and is considered by some critics to be even the greatest Japanese anime in history. People all over the world know that this period is in the early stage of globalization, international exchanges are becoming more and more frequent, Japan's entire economy is at its peak, and the demand for foreign import culture has also increased greatly, so the basics that the Chinese general public can access are spread during this period.
This douban-rated animated film, if you don't say it, no one thought that it was directed and filmed by Hayao Miyazaki.
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As the virgo of Miyazaki's animated feature films, "Lupin III" laid the technical foundation for this subsequent Miyazaki films that shocked the world in terms of production methods, narrative methods, human style and aesthetics. Once hailed by the Cannes Film Festival as "one of the best adventure dramas of all time", the opening car chase was hailed by Spielberg as "the most perfect car chase in the history of cinema".
From the character design and theme structure, this movie has the same magic as the "Porco Rosso" released 13 years later, even if it is called the prototype of the latter, both of which are based on the dashing male protagonist, both take the entanglement between mature women and pure girls as the story development, lay out the romantic atmosphere at the same time there are elements of humorous action films, and in the handling of the ending, it also adopts the approach of "running for the future" to avoid the big reunion style sensationalism...
At the end of the film, Lupin and his party leave the country in a yellow car, and when they finally discover that the treasure is not money, but a World Heritage Site. There is really a feeling in it, and the greatest wealth of mankind is history.
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"Lupin III" has been serialized since 1967, animated and gained great popularity in 1971, followed by the production of theatrical version of "Lupin III Lupin vs Replicants", and "Lupin III Cariostro City" directed by Hayao Miyazaki, and countless masterpieces have been published.
It feels like the Japanese love strange thieves and the stories of the descendants of virtual celebrities, including Kidd, who specializes in stealing gems; Kazuchi Kaneda, who "in the name of Grandpa"; Lupin III, the grandson of Yasen Robin... Lupin III is actually a spillover of dramatization, and the work is permeated with retro winds, old tones of history, fictional political scenes, flying princesses, princes, generals, and mysterious treasures.
Kazuhiko Kato, the original author, admired Lupin III's spirit of leisure and adventure, and molded him as a strange thief who traveled the world, took the Skywalker, and was harmless. Lupin III is the third generation of the Lupin family, the nationality is unknown, 1.79 meters tall, IQ 300, good at shooting, cross-dressing and flying knives, a bit of lust for women.
Cariostro, a small country in Europe with a population of only 3,500 people, is the birthplace of the world's most realistic counterfeit banknote, the Goat Banknote. The truth of its counterfeit money is that even a great thief like Lupin III was almost blinded by it. Lupin and his partner travel here and happen to meet Clarice, a beautiful young girl who is being chased by a mob.
Lupin came to the rescue, but he realized something from the ring left by the girl... The story unfolds.
I always thought, "From then on, the prince and princess lived a happy and happy life." This sentence is the happy ending of all fairy tales and animations, but in "Lupin III" it is an unfulfilled dream... When Lupin's heart was entangled several times to release Clarice in his arms and only kiss her forehead lightly, the separation was imminent.
The hero's dream is to venture all the way to the far away, and the film tells a very traditional story, but there will be a little touch after seeing it. The characters have a Miyazaki-style pure bravery, and a lightly sad soundtrack in the Style of Miyaji. The overall style is Europeanized, just like a long time ago, the Japanese worship of The Tang Dynasty culture, after the Meiji Restoration, Japan is also very yearning for European culture, Miyazaki's personal hobbies are more obvious, from this step of the film, to the sky city, Porco Rosso and a series of works, are like a European adventure story added to Miyazaki's understanding of the relationship between gentlemen, ladies, and man and nature.
However, this is after all Miyazaki's early works, although adapted from a popular manga work, but the film box office was not optimistic at the time, and the failure of "Lupin III" at the box office brought an almost fatal blow to Miyazaki's fledgling career as a feature film director, leaving him with no film to shoot for up to three years. But without such a cornerstone, there may not have been him after that. The first step of the masters is often not necessarily the most desired step. A theatrical version of the Japanese national monster thief manga "Lupin III" has been enduring because of Miyazaki's name.
Many domestic fans do not know this movie is not surprising, after all, the age of this movie is a long time ago, many classic animations are not known because they have not been introduced, it is indeed a pity. The first season of Lupin's comic and TV versions first came out when China was still in the 70s, when China was still struggling to solve the problem of food and clothing.
"Lupin III: The City of Cariostro" as Miyazaki's debut work, has shown Miyazaki's amazing talent, in the early years he depicted the story of the unruly thief and the beautiful princess, has let the industry gods understand him through this work, and then Miyazaki hayao worked hard to create, only to have a later classic, and then slowly walked into the current position.
After gaining fame, fans look back and see that Miyazaki's work has been sharp since the first part, when Miyazaki was only one of many animation supervisors, he had not yet become the "special one", and his master reputation was slowly established from "Nausicaäu no Kaze" five years later. What is important is that the process of his animation growth, getting rid of the animation elements of children and moving towards an all-age audience, was formed step by step by the efforts of a group of animation film masters led by Miyazaki Hayao.
Making animation truly an art form that can carry world views and values should be the dream of a group of animators represented by Hayao Miyazaki, but now they have a good dream to complete, and animation is no longer watched by children, but an art form that can really convey love and courage.
I salute the current and former animators and hope that there will be better works in the future.
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