General "Did you Know?"s

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Did you know? That during the 1970s, Osamu Tezuka made an animated feature for adults called Cleopatra? 


The story about this movie has an interesting one, on how it didn't last long on coming to the USA. During the year of 1972. After the release of Ralph Bakshi's Fritz the Cat. Japan was interested in trying to cash in the success of Fritz with Cleopatra, the film didnt do well over in Japan. Seeing the success of Fritz gave them a second wind to try to get money back from what they lost. They made a deal with a studio called Xanadu Productions to distribute the film. Except they never sent it to the MPAA for an official rating, they quickly slapped on the X rating for the film. In the end. American viewers were not impressed with the film. Demanding their money back for not witnessing a pornography film(the film had false advertising on it claiming it was a pornography film, when in reality the nudity in this was more in an artistic matter). The english dubbed version of the movie is considered a lost film. The only copies of the film that exist are in its full japanese dialogue