Little Nemo Pilot is a 1987 adventure special directed by Osamu Dezaki. He made it as an alternative test pilot for the project that became Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, which reached American theaters in 1992. It was the third such pilot. Sadao Tsukioka made the first in the mid-1970s, and a 1984 pilot followed, made by a group of Studio Ghibli staff.