Catch Lupin if You Can

I just saw 'Catch Me if You Can'. With some makeup or some more years Tom Hanks might make a great Zenigate for a live action 'Lupin III' movie.

- Juan F. Lara

I said to my friend when I was watching the movie that it made me think of Lupin.

In case you didn't already know, Spielberg had high praise for Miyazaki's 'Castle of Cagliostro' after viewing it some years ago, so Lupin III may actually have influenced his approach to the characters in 'Catch Me if You Can,' even if only on a subconscious level. Those scenes with Hanks eating Chinese take-out from paper cartons while DeCaprio was enjoying the high life were pure Zenigata & Lupin business.

Yes it says that Spielberg liked it on the back of the Cagliostro DVD, heh.

The ideal for me would have been Richard Lane, who played so many frustrated cops in 1940s movies.

But doesn't Zenigata have to be Japanese? Pat Morita?

The way he escaped from the airplane is what made me tink of Lupin.

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Pat Morita? Naaah, he doesn't look the part. Beat Takeshi might do a good job with the part, though how well I'm not so sure.