Product Details

• Actors: Robert Axelrod, Richard Cansino, George C. Cole, Osgood W. Glick, Makio Inoue
• Directors: Soji Yoshikawa
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: November 24, 1998
• Run Time: 102 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305090246
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #65,983 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Lupin the 3rd - The Mystery of Mamo" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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Created by manga artist Monkey Punch in 1967, Lupin III is a master thief, the direct descendant of Arsène Lupin. His off-the-wall escapades spoof the adventures of James Bond and similar rakish heroes. The typically baroque plot of "Mamo" requires Lupin and his sidekicks, the super-samurai Goemon and the beatnik Jigan, to steal the ingredients needed for a compound that produces eternal youth. The mastermind behind this scheme is the mad billionaire-industrialist Hayward Lockwood, a.k.a. Mamo. Lupin's clumsy attempts to seduce Mamo's voluptuous red-haired agent, Fujiko, and his successful evasions of the obsessed Inspector Zenigata provide additional comedy. The features and TV programs in the Lupin III series are much cartoonier and slower paced than more recent anime comedy-adventures, although their influence on Ranma 1/2 and other Japanese tongue-in-cheek heroes is clear. The animation is sloppy, Lupin's features change from scene to scene, and his hands frequently look like scribbles. The Mystery of Mamo is too silly to work as an adventure, but not silly enough to work as a farce, at least in this English version. --Charles Solomon

Product Description

A madcap adventure which spans the globe from the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania to the land of the Pharaohs...A deadly mystery which races from the sidewalks of Paris to the shores of a tropical paradise, all in pursuit of a world-class art collection--by theft!

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Miyazaki's Lupin, but an energetic action anime ..., April 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Lupin the 3rd - The Mystery of Mamo (DVD)

'Mamo' may be known to some American fans already as the secondary footage in the Laser Disk arcade game 'Cliff Hanger' from 1983. While this film doesn't match the personalities or situations in Miyazaki's Lupin masterpieces, it does stand on its own as a decent anime effort from the late seventies. The first half of 'Mamo' is an incredible globe hopping action adventure going through the Giza pyramids, Transylvanian castles, Paris streets and sewers, Spanish desert and cities and onto an American aircraft carrier. All the sequences are well thought out with a variety of ingenious villains until the middle of the film where Lupin and gang end up on Mamo's headquarter island in the Carribean sea. Suddenly, the plot stagnates and wanders almost aimlessly for the next fourty minutes before the bizarre wrap up. The uninteresting latter half is probably due to the director trying to follow the Lupin manga without proper editing. The DVD version is a little lack luster, but it is still a good film and the english dub is very good. Get it; it's decent.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best *Lupin* movie, but a pretty good movie itself., December 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lupin the 3rd - The Mystery of Mamo (DVD)

Well, the DVD is pathetically equipped, with a menu that totals to a scene select. There is no Japanese language version with or without subtitles (probably because the company who dubbed it, Streamline Pictures, never made a subtitled version to begin with). The movie itself, however, is very interesting, even if it lacks the animation and spit-and-polish of "Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro." Supposedly, a little blue-fleshed fellow named Mamo has been hanging around Earth for the past several thousand years by self-cloning. Mamo, a psychopath, also claims that he has controlled all of human history and even cloned Lupin III himself (who may very well be dead, hung in Transylvania). Character tensions are detailed, and everyone watching can see how the director felt the players in the film should interact with each other (and it's in a very different way than in the "Lupin III" works of Hayao Miyazaki). All-in-all, it's a pretty good movie, but it takes quite a while to get past the toothpick-like character design and the far-less-than-teriffic animation. Once you get through the slug, it's a fun little ride with some good jokes thrown in, too. But, it's still no "Cagliostro Castle".... Final plug: Visit my Lupin III Webpage!

26 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No Japanese Language!, July 29, 1999

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This review is from: Lupin the 3rd - The Mystery of Mamo (DVD)

I love this movie, but it is a simply atrocious to release a Japanese movie on DVD without including the original Japanese language dialogue as an optional audio track.