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.

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Studios

• Discotek
• Tokyo Movie Shinsha
• Toho

Staff

• Tsutomu Shibayama — Animation Director, Character Design
• Monkey Punch — Original Creator
• Yasuo Ootsuka — Action Animation Director
• Masaaki Oosumi — Director