Lupin III: Pilot Film

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Action

Primarily Adult CastFugitiveGunsEnsemble CastMale ProtagonistShounenNuditySamurai

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha

Staff: Monkey Punch (Mangaka), Masaaki Oosumi (Director), Tsutomu Shibayama (Director), Yasuo Ootsuka (Animator), Tsutomu Shibayama (Director)

Overview

Two years after the birth of the manga a pilot film was realized. It was a brief film of only 15 minutes that had the purpose of assay the response to a possible future anime realization of Lupin III. The pilot opens with a challenge call from Lupin to Zenigata from a public phone. A remastered version was realised in 1978, re-photographed in cinemascope and re-dubbed for being screened in cinema before the 1st movie The Secret of Mamo.