The hit anime Lupin III will get another run through as Shun Oguri gives life to the legendary anime thief in cinemas starting August 30, 2014.

It will focus on the beginnings of the "Lupin Crew" and how they came to be. Jerry Yan, from the Taiwanese boy band F4, will play Michael Lee the nemesis of Lupin.

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Daisuke Jigen will be played by Tetsuji Tamayama, while, Goemon Ishikawa will be played by Go Ayano. Fujiko Mine the seductive love interest of Lupin will be played by Meisa Kuroki.

Oguri lost 17.6 pound after going through 10 months of action training for the role. The filming began on October 3, 2013, they filmed in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines before shooting in Thailand for two months.

This inter-racial movie involves casts like Kim Joon from South Korea and Thanayong Wongtrakul from Thailand.

Other casts includes Nick Tate from Australia, Yaya Ying a famous Thai singer and Thai actor Nirut Sirijanya.

Lupin III was directed by Ryuhei Kitamura and written by Mataichiro Yamamoto. This was a seinen manga released by Monkey Punch in 1967 that has sprawled a franchise such as anime series and films, television specials, games and stage productions.

According to a Nerdist review, Lupin III looks criminally good it has a brand new theme song called "Trick Attack - Theme of Lupin the Third" by Tomoyasu Hotel.

This can be considered as another success in live adaptation of an anime series in Japan where Americans ventured rather unsuccessfully.

Just last year, Japan released the action packed live action of Rurouni Kenshin which garnered $61.7 million in the box office.

Check out the trailer here:

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