Studiocanal Sets True Crime Art Heist Docu-Series ‘The Paris-Tokyo Job’ With Sunny Side of the Doc Launch (EXCLUSIVE)

One of the world’s most notorious art heists is getting a true crime documentary from Studiocanal.

“The Paris-Tokyo Job (Or How To Rob A Yakuza),” a four-part series, is set to debut at La Rochelle’s Sunny Side of the Doc festival this month before bowing on Canal+ in France later this year.

The doc tells the story of Philippe “Fifi” Jamin, a flamboyant delinquent who became an international fugitive in the 1980s after his gang began stealing and trafficking world-famous artworks, including paintings by Corot, becoming entangled with the Japanese Yakuza in the process.

It is written and directed by Jérémie Rozan (“Gold Brick”) and Jérôme Pierrat (“Cocaine Air: Smugglers at 30,000 Feet”) and produced by Philippe de Bourbon and Andaman Films.

“When Claude Monet’s ‘Impression, Sunrise,’ valued at more than €100 million, is spectacularly stolen, the gang become the main suspect and pursued by law enforcement worldwide,” reads the logline. “Along the way, they will pull off one of Japan’s most audacious robberies: the 1986 Mitsubishi Bank heist in Tokyo, netting 300 million yen (almost €7 million today) and earning the label ‘heist of the century.’”