known but less expensive actors (including Toshio Furukawa,  best known from "Urusei Yatsura" (1981)). Due to very poor  communication, Yamada (the voice of Lupin III) was led to believe  that Monkey Punch himself was responsible for the slight. Although  Yamada et al returned to their roles with the next TV special,  relations between the two (who over the course of the Lupin III  production history had become good friends) would remain permanently  strained until Yamadas death in 1995.