History Anime / LupinIIITheColumbusFiles

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Fujiko Mine is unveiling her latest scheme to Arsène Lupin III over a romantic dinner: she has found and memorized the "Columbus Files", a set of documents that reveal the location of a mysterious lost treasure, the Columbus Egg. Before she can tell him more, their evening is interrupted by the rascally Nazarov, sent to retrieve the information Fujiko has. As she and Lupin flee, however, they end up falling over a cliff. Lupin loses his grip, and Fujiko slips away...

Later, treasure hunter Rosaria returns to her home to find a frightened young woman hiding there; it turns out to be Fujiko, stricken with amnesia from her fall and traumatized by flashes of the attack. Even when Fujiko eventually reunites with Lupin and the gang, she can remember nothing. To make things worse, Nazarov and his boss wants the information from the Columbus Files locked away in Fujiko's missing memory. It's up to her friends and Rosaria, also tied into the mysterious documents somehow, to keep Fujiko out of the hands of the enemy, restore her to her normal self, and find out what the secret of the Columbus Egg really is.

* ActionGirl: Rozaria's a deepsea diver and salvages relics. She's not bad with a knife either, except Nazarov always gets the better of her, 'cuz she keeps being distracted.

* AnnoyingLaugh: A detail regarding Nazarov that allows Lupin to recognize him. One that sounds like a pig snorting. Lupin lampshades it a few times, especially when Nazarov has the laugh recorded on tape to play on loop!
* AuthorAvatar: Nazarov is Lupin with an Afro, which mirrors director Nabeshin's own distinctive look.
* BoundAndGagged: Fujiko, while she's being held hostage by Nazarov.

* InterruptedIntimacy: By way of MacrossMissileMassacre! Just as Lupin and Fujiko were about to get it on, Nazarov's men launch a surprise attack to steal the Columbus File.
* IShallTauntYou: Nazarov never misses an opportunity to call Rozaria an amateur, each time she allows herself to be distracted during their fights.

* MaliciousMisnaming: In the English Dub, Lupin almost constantly refers to Nazarov as "Nasal Cough".
* MythologyGag: The movie has Nasarov wearing a green jacket, versus Lupin, who's wearing a red one. Get it?

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Nazarov's name has also been spelled as, Nazalov, and Nazalhov.
** Similarly, the Lupin Wikia page for the film spells the variants with an "ff" rather than a "v".
** Rozaria appears onscreen as "Rosalia"

* VillainousCrush: Nazarov becomes increasingly infatuated with Fujiko as the film progresses, to the point of fighting Lupin over her in the midst of a waterspout!

* {{Fanservice}}: More subtle than most Lupin films, but it's there with all the FootFocus (see below) and the [[HomoeroticSubtext Les Yay subtext]] between Rozaria and Fujiko. And for the ladies, there's random Goemon in a {{Fundoshi}}.
* FootFocus: Fujiko is barefoot for nearly half the film; particularly during the scenes where she's BoundAndGagged.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Orgone energy was at one point studied as legitimate by some scientists; eventually, it was exposed as quackery and became forgotten. One of its theoretical uses was controlling the weather.

Fujiko is unveiling her latest scheme to Lupin over a romantic dinner: she has found and memorized the "Columbus Files", a set of documents that reveal the location of a mysterious lost treasure, the Columbus Egg. Before she can tell him more, their evening is interrupted by the rascally Nazarov, sent to retrieve the information Fujiko has. As she and Lupin flee, however, they end up falling over a cliff. Lupin loses his grip, and Fujiko slips away...

''Lupin III: The Columbus Files'', released in Japan in 1999 as ''Ai no da capo ~Fujiko's Unlucky Days~'' [[note]]愛のダ·カーポ ~Fujiko's Unlucky Days~ [[/note]], is the eleventh entry in the MadeForTVMovie series of Anime/LupinIIIYearlySpecials. The director of is none other than Creator/ShinichiWatanabe, who later went on to direct ''Anime/ExcelSaga''. Creator/FUNimation released it with an English language dub in 2005 as the ninth of the ten Lupin films/TV movies they acquired for distribution, and it was also included in the 2006 "Final Haul" boxset.

* {{Heterochromia}}: Rozaria has one blue eye and a brown one.

* AnnoyingLaugh: A detail regarding Nazarov that allows Lupin to recognize him. One that sounds like a pig snorting.

''The Columbus Files'', released in Japan in 1999 as ''Ai no da capo ~Fujiko's Unlucky Days~'', is the eleventh entry in the MadeForTVMovie series of Anime/LupinIIIYearlySpecials. Creator/FUNimation released it with an English language dub in 2005 as the ninth of the ten Lupin films/TV movies they acquired for distribution, and it was also included in the 2006 "Final Haul" boxset.

The director of ''Columbus Files'' is none other than Creator/ShinichiWatanabe, who later went on to direct ''Anime/ExcelSaga''.

* {{Fanservice}}: More subtle than most Lupin films, but it's there with all the FootFocus (see below) and the [[HomoeroticSubtext Les Yay subtext]] between Rozaria and Fujiko.

* HomoeroticSubtext: The beach scene with Jigen and Goemon. And yes, while the mouth-to-mouth is explained, why Goemon had to take most of his clothes off to do it is not.

* MaliciousMisnaming: In the English Dub, Lupin almost constantly refers to Nazalov as "Nasal Cough".

* AuthorAvatar: Nazalhov is Lupin with an Afro, which mirrors director Nabeshin's own distinctive look.

* AuthorAvatar: Nazalhov is Lupin with an Afro, Creator/NabeShin's distinctive look.

The director of ''Columbus Files'' is none other than Creator/ShinichiWatanabe, who later went on to direct Anime/ExcelSaga.

* GagDub: A brilliant running gag for those familiar with both FUNimation and Geneon's concurrently running dubs, where Lupin, Jigen, and Goemon constantly bicker about the correct pronunciations of their names with each other, much as fans of each dub did back when they were originally released.

* DamselInDistress: Fujiko fills this slot for most of the film. Having lost her memory, she finds herself terrified of situations she's usually accustomed to. She even surprised herself when she instinctively dodged a shot, grabbed Lupin's gun, and returned fire from, pure muscle memory.

* DamselInDistress: Fujiko fills this slot for most of the film. Having lost her memory, she finds herself terrified of situations she's usually accustomed to. She even surprised herself when she instinctively dodged a shot, grabbed Lupin's gun, and returned fire from, pure Muscle Memory.