If you loved Suicide Bus, try Lupin the Third: Tokyo Crisis

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.

You already loved

Suicide Bus

1998 · dir. Hiroshi Shimizu

→

Try this next

Lupin the Third: Tokyo Crisis

1998 · dir. Toshiya Shinohara

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: Tokyo Crisis is

Here's a caper that perhaps strains the definition of "crisis." Lupin attempts to steal some old photographs, but his plans are complicated by his own gang's incompetence. A reporter joins Zenigata's pursuit, but she might be tied to Lupin's target. It's a TV movie that happened.

If you loved Suicide Bus, try Lupin the Third: Tokyo Crisis

Suicide Bus

Lupin the Third: Tokyo Crisis

What they share

What Lupin the Third: Tokyo Crisis is

Ask ChatGPT▾ChatGPTClaudeGrokLe ChatPerplexity for a deeper bridge

Ask for a deeper bridge