If you loved Suicide Bus, try Lupin the Third: The Columbus Files

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Suicide Bus

1998 · dir. Hiroshi Shimizu

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Lupin the Third: The Columbus Files

1999 · dir. Setsuo Takase, Shinichi Watanabe

What they share

Theysit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Suicide Bus, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Lupin the Third: The Columbus Files is

Here's a film that aims to get the old gang back together again, with diminishing returns. Fujiko swipes a file about the Columbus Egg, a weather-controlling relic, but loses her memory of Lupin and company. They must restore it before a villain gets his mitts on the Egg. At least it's colorful.

If you loved Suicide Bus, try Lupin the Third: The Columbus Files

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Lupin the Third: The Columbus Files

What they share

What Lupin the Third: The Columbus Files is

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