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13 April 2011 12:21 PM, PDT | Nippon Cinema | See recent Nippon Cinema news »

The Japanese film site Cinema Today has uploaded a trailer for Masatoshi Akihara’s Lupin no Kiganjo to their channel on YouTube.

The film is based Maurice Leblanc’s “L’aiguille Creuse”, known as “The Hollow Needle: The Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin” in English, but the characters and locations have been changed to fit a Japanese setting.

Arsène Lupin is a “gentleman thief” character which attained a level of popularity and longevity in French-speaking countries comparable to Sherlock Holmes in English-speaking countries. He’s also mentioned as the grandfather of the main character of the Lupin III manga and anime series.

In the film, a celebrity’s secretary is murdered, and a discrepancy in the testimonies of the people involved leads to utter confusion about what actually occurred. Meanwhile a female college student and amateur sleuth (Sayuri Iwata) discovers a mysterious cypher written on a piece of paper. She »

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