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Fake (OAV)

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©1997 Sanami Matou/Biblos • Placet.


[ adapted from FAKE (manga) ]

Alternative title:
Fake: Un'indagine Confidenziale (Italian)
Фальшивка (Russian)
Genres: comedy, mystery, romance
Themes: police, yaoi
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Dee Laytner and Randy "Ryo" Maclane are two New York cops taking a needed vacation in England. Dee has very strong feelings for Ryo and wants to take this chance to advance their relationship (and if he's lucky, maybe seduce Ryo). Ryo doesn't understand his own feelings for Dee, and doesn't know if he wants to (or should) acknowledge them. Their vacation and relationship is suddenly disturbed when murders and missing person reports keep surfacing around their hotel. The only common tie the cases have is that all of the victims were Japanese or Japanese descent. Dee and Ryo have to solve the case before Ryo, who is half Japanese, becomes the next victim.
Video:
User Ratings: 404 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 14 votes (sub:12, dub:1, ?:1)
 Excellent: 37 votes (sub:26, dub:10, ?:1)
 Very good: 87 votes (sub:62, dub:21, ?:3, Rus.dub:1)
 Good: 133 votes (sub:113, dub:16, ?:4)
 Decent: 71 votes (sub:54, dub:15, ?:1, raw:1)
 So-so: 17 votes (sub:16, dub:1)
 Not really good: 18 votes (sub:11, dub:5, ?:2)
 Weak: 16 votes (sub:11, dub:5)
 Bad: 5 votes (sub:4, raw:1)
 Awful: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 2 votes (dub:1, sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 867 users, rank: #698
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.795 (Good-.20), std. dev.: 1.7716, rank: #2051
Weighted mean: 6.720 (Good-.28), rank: #2050 (seen all: 6.75 / seen some: 5.29 / won't finish: 6.00)
Bayesian estimate: 6.739 (Good-.26), rank: #1768
Running time: one hour
Number of episodes: 1
Vintage:
1996
1998-04-21
Opening Theme:
"Everybody! Shake It, Buddy!" by KIX-S
Ending Theme:
"Starlight Heaven" by Rica Matsumoto
Links: We have 1
In the news 2 times:
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Related reviews:
    Fake VHS

Related releases:
    Fake (DVD) 2000-12-09 (from $13.82)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Iku Suzuki

Script: Akinori Endo

Music: Katsuo Ono

Original Manga: Sanami Matoh

Character Design: Nagisa Miyazaki

Art director: Chitose Asakura

Animation director: Nagisa Miyazaki

Mecha design: Satoshi Shigeta

Sound director: Fusanobu Fujiyama

Director of Photography: Katsuyuki Ohtaki

Editing: Naoyuki Masaki

Sound Effects: Junichi Sasaki

Sound Production: Hideo Takahashi

Theme Song Performance: Rica Matsumoto (ED)

 

Nobuo Tobita as Randy McLane

Tomokazu Seki as Dee Laytner

Kikuko Inoue as Arisa

Masashi Ebara as Berkeley Rose

Rica Matsumoto as Bikky

Rokuro Naya as Leonard Henry

Tetsuya Iwanaga as J.J.

Wakana Yamazaki as Carol

Akemi Okamura as Cindy

Kazuhiro Nakata as Ted

Kenichi Ono as Drake

Mitsuru Ogata as Jaco

Rio Natsuki as Maria

Yousuke Akimoto as Chief

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: J.C. Staff

Sound Effects: Anime Sound

Sound Production: Jinnan Studio


English cast 
English staff 

Director: Eric Sherman

Translation: Tokyo Rose

Producer: John Sirabella

Editing: Scott Marchfeld

Graphic Design: Merideth Mulroney

Production manager: Sam Liebowitz

Production Supervision:
Clark Cheng (VHS Release)
Sean Molyneaux

Sandy Lang as Dee Laytner

Terrence Stone as Randy Mclane

Gary Gillet as J.J.

Mona Marshall as Bikky

Steve Kramer as Berkeley Rose

Stevie Bloch as Carol

William Frederick Knight as Leonard Henry

Zan as Arisa

Anthony Mozdy as
Chief
Jaco

Bob Bobson as Drake

Destiny as Cindy

Mona Marshall as Maria

Steve Kramer as Ted

English companies 

Distributor: AnimeWorks

Licensed by: Media Blasters

Italian staff 
Italian companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Yamato Video

Italian cast 
(none)
German staff 
German companies 
(none)
 

Distributor:
ACOG
OVA Films

German cast 
(none)
 
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