The Three Musketeers: Pilot Episode - The Man in the Iron Mask

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Kunihiko Yuyama directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Russian, Japanese, Turkish.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Tight 25-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
• 239 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
• 3Dialogue crosses 3 languages: Russian, Japanese, Turkish.
• 4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
• 5Only 2 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Runtime

25 min · 0h 25m

Status

Released

Original language

JA

Also by

Kunihiko Yuyama

• 
  Plawres Sanshiro

  1983 · ★ 8.5
• 
  The Uncut Story of Mewtwo's Origin

  1999 · ★ 7.8
• 
  The Three Musketeers: Adventure of Aramis

  1987 · ★ 7.6
• 
  Minky Momo: Station of Your Memories

  1994 · ★ 7.5
• 
  Pokemon: Hoopa, The Mischief of Pokemon

  2015 · ★ 7.3
• 
  Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life

  2009 · ★ 7.1

Production companies

Who made it

• 

  Gallop

  JP

Key crew

• Animation DirectorHatsuki Tsuji
• Original ConceptAlexandre Dumas

Release history · US

When it landed

• TV1987-03-05

Also known as

International titles

• Anime Sanjushi Pilot EpisodeJP
• After the man in the iron mask! from the Tale of D'ArtagnanJP
• Tekkamen wo Oe: "d'Artagnan Monogatari" yoriJP
• Man In The Iron Mask, TheUS