One Piece: Defeat the Pirate Ganzack!

1998 0h 29m JA

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★6.6TMDB · 72★6.5IMDB · 265

ActionAnimationComedyFantasyAdventure

Synopsis

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While Luffy and his crew of Zoro and Nami are starving on their small boat, they are attacked by a large monster. Nami is taken away, while Luffy and Zoro wash up on shore. There they meet a young girl, Medaka, and learn of the sad history of the island. The evil Pirate Ganzack has taken away all the men in the village and enslaved them, including Medaka's father. Now Luffy, Zoro, and Medaka must infiltrate Ganzack's base in order to rescue the villagers and Nami.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Urara Takano
Monkey D. Luffy (voice)
Wataru Takagi
Roronoa Zoro (voice)
Megumi Toyoguchi
Nami (voice)
Norio Wakamoto
Ganzack (voice)
Ikuya Sawaki
Herring / Narrator (voice)
Jun Tanaka
Medaka (voice)
Takkô Ishimori
Skid (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Goro Taniguchi
Writers: Hiroaki Kitajima, Goro Taniguchi
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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Tight 29-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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28 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 5

CAST

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Urara Takano and Wataru Takagi and Megumi Toyoguchi carry the top of the cast.

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt1012788 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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5 / 5

WILD

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Only 72 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Goro Taniguchi directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

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1Tight 29-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
228 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Urara Takano and Wataru Takagi and Megumi Toyoguchi carry the top of the cast.
4IMDB entry: tt1012788 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
5Only 72 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.