Jigen Daisuke is a 2023 film spinoff of Lupin the 3rd, produced by TMS Entertainment in collaboration with Amazon Prime, which released it worldwide with regional subtitles. Tetsuji Tamayama returns as Daisuke Jigen. Yoko Maki, Kotoka Maki, Mitsuko Kusabue and Masatoshi Nagase also star in the movie.
After Jigen takes time off from working with Lupin, he engages in a duel with a gunman somewhere in Poland. From there, Jigen contemplated on finding parts to repair his Smith & Wesson Model 19 revolver. During a meeting with an Arms Dealer despite not being satisfied with offers to replace his sidearm, the man was advised on finding a gunsmith back in Japan. Jigen meets with Chiharu Yaguchi, who told him that she went legitimate from the black market to run a watch repair shop. She and Jigen hit it off until they find out that a young girl named Oto shows up. She can't talk due to trauma.
Jigen helps Oto out in finding her mother, but learns that her troubles are tied to Adele, a crippled woman who's the crime boss and ruler of a slum town called Deigyo-gai. She wants to harvest young children in order to age slowly. And when her men kidnap Oto, It's Personal for Jigen.
Jigen Daisuke contains examples of:
- Arms Dealer: Jigen heads to Mexico to speak to an arms dealer to help him conduct maintenance on his Model 19. When he, instead, tries to persuade Jigen to instead upgrade his sidearm, the latter says that his meeting was a waste of time.
- Bait-and-Switch: When Jigen meets with Oto in Hibari Shopping Street after Chiharu heads off for a meeting, the merchants converge on him and it seemed that Jigen was going to be in trouble with suspicious looks. Except no and they were told Jigen is her nephew and Oto is his daughter.
- Blasting It Out of Their Hands: During a solo raid on Adele's compound, a paramilitary soldier chucks frag grenades at him. Jigen used his Improbable Aiming Skills to shoot one before it was chucked. It exploded and the shrapnels took out a huge number of soldiers.
- Bulletproof Human Shield: Jigen uses this against Adele's forces by grabbing a bad guy and use his body to take the incoming bullets.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Adele and her control over Deigyo-gai is taken out after Jigen kills her in their duel. Chiharu offers to adopt Oto since her mom, Kyoko, was killed by Adele's men.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The criminals in Deigyo-gai and Adele's forces are not able to score a direct hit at Jigen when he raids the slums to rescue Oto.
- Market-Based Title: The Spanish market promotes the movie as Jigen Daisuke: El Revólver.note
- Rule of Cool: Jigen doing multiple combat rolls to dodge incoming gunfire, using his revolver to shoot at Adele's minion and paramilitary soldiers with great power that they get Blown Across the Room instantly and fighting Kawashima's assassins in close quaters with anything that's not nailed down with the occasional use of a Bulletproof Human Shield. See his shots sometimes take down multiple enemies with one shot even when one .357 Magnum bullet can't do so? Most of it is attirbuted to Kensuke Sonomura in the stunts and it shows.
- Shooting Gallery: In Mexico, Jigen practices shooting his Model 19 and a Glock 17 on scarecrows that served as targets.
- The Stinger: The ending shows Jigen walking towards an arriving yellow Fiat 500.
- Universal Ammunition: Adele hands a .45 ACP bullet from her SW1911 Pro Magnaport Custom for Jigen to use on his Model 19.
