The lost Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood movie released in 2007

I am not sure if i am posting this in the correct place, but I havent seen anything on this here and I thought it was worth making a thread about.

Quick rundown: In 2007 there released a movie adaptation of the first arc of the manga Jojo no Kimyou no Bouken (known as Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure in the west) this movie was done by the same people who did the OVAs released in 1993 and 2000. It only ever released in theaters in Japan and was never released on home video.
I was curious, considering it did in fact air in theaters, if its possible for there still to be prints of it floating around tucked away somewhere? Considering tracking down prints of films seems to be this site’s specialty, I was wondering how many are interested in this search over here.

Here is some material relating to the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7P3OFsuMWY (trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5KOWKVTIeA (test pilot)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVpwZxBJjJU (reconstruction containing all current footage)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6490990/ (IMDb page)

Most of the print scans around here come from US/EU prints. Considering this was never released outside Japan it’s very unlikely anyone around here would have access to one.
Would be cool to see though, would love to be proven wrong.

stwd4nder2 said:

Most of the print scans around here come from US/EU prints. Considering this was never released outside Japan it’s very unlikely anyone around here would have access to one.
Would be cool to see though, would love to be proven wrong.

Unless it pops on Yahoo Auditions (Japan eBay)

It’s possible a print is hanging around in Japan somewhere. I think it’s an interesting title to at least get everyone aware of. The group Kineko Video has their eyes regularly on stuff in Japan, so if one shows up at all I put them on grabbing it first.