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What is Lupin III: Pilot Film about?

Status: Finished

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.

Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Fugitive , Guns , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Nudity , Samurai

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GREAT PRETENDER

Also known as Great Pretender.

Studio: WIT STUDIO , Fuji TV , Production I.G , Toho , BS Fuji , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Thriller

Self-styled “Japan's greatest swindler” Makoto Edamura is mainly targeting elder people and occasional foreign travelers. But when he tries to scam an apparently clueless French tourist in Tokyo, he can't possibly imagine that what looked like just another ordinary job is going to take him all the way to Los Angeles, tied upside-down on the famous Hollywood sign… And he is yet to find out what fate awaits him!

Tags: Crime , Anti-Hero , Foreign , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Urban , Work , Mafia , Language Barrier , Triads , Filmmaking , Drawing , Drugs , Gangs , Acting , Heterosexual , Aviation , Bisexual , Tragedy , Slavery , Tomboy , Detective , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity , War , Mahjong , Tanned Skin , Baseball , Guns , Terrorism , Football , Boys' Love

Where to watch?

Netflix

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Ashita no Joe Pilots

Studio: Mushi Production , Jaggard
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Pilot films for Ashita no Joe, released as bonus material on the series' DVD box.

Aoyama-hen (prod. 1969/11/06)
Rikiishi-hen (prod. 1969/12/22)

Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Boxing , Delinquents , Rehabilitation , Primarily Male Cast , Crime , Achronological Order , Ojou-sama , Yakuza , Primarily Teen Cast

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