Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns

Synopsis

The Team Rocket leader, Giovanni, has found Mewtwo in a remote area of the Johto region. As Giovanni tries to re-capture Mewtwo, Ash and his friends are kidnapped by Domino, a new Team Rocket member, while trying to rescue Pikachu from Jessie and James. The Clone Pokemon are also captured and are then used as bait for Mewtwo. The situation then becomes a battle between the wills of Mewtwo and Giovanni; and Mewtwo also tries to discover if it and the clones have a purpose in life, even though they are products of science.

Trailer

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Cast

Rica Matsumoto

Satoshi (voice)

Ikue Otani

Pikachu (voice)

Mayumi Izuka

Kasumi (voice)

Satomi Korogi

Togepy (voice)

Yuji Ueda

Takeshi (voice)

Megumi Hayashibara

Musashi (voice)

Shin-ichiro Miki

Kojiro (voice)

Inuko Inuyama

Nyarth (voice)

Masachika Ichimura

Mewtwo (voice)

Hirotaka Suzuoki

Sakaki (voice)

Kotono Mitsuishi

Domino (voice)

Chinami Nishimura

Junsar (voice)

Unsho Ishizuka

Narrator (voice)

Aya Hisakawa

Luna Carson (voice)

Yumi Touma

Luka Carson (voice)

Rikiya Koyama

Penicillina (voice)

Crew

Art

• Katsuyoshi Kanemura Art Direction
• Yuji Asada Storyboard Artist
• Rena Yoshikawa Concept Artist
• Masahiro Nakazawa Other
• Kiyotaka Itani Storyboard Artist
• Shigeki Morimoto Concept Artist
• Gakuji Nomoto Other
• Ken Sugimori Concept Artist
• Hironobu Yoshida Concept Artist
• Koji Fukasawa Storyboard Artist
• Hiroyuki Jinnai Other
• Satoshi Ohta Concept Artist

Camera

• Takaya Mizutani Director of Photography

Directing

• Masamitsu Hidaka Director
• Yuji Asada Assistant Director
• Kiyotaka Itani Assistant Director
• Koji Fukasawa Assistant Director

Editing

• Toshio Henmi Editor

Production

• Makiko Iwata Producer
• Choji Yoshikawa Associate Producer
• Tsunekazu Ishihara Production Supervisor
• Nobuyuki Wasaki Production Manager
• Takemoto Mori Producer
• Shoji Ota Production Manager
• Takayuki Yanagisawa Producer

Sound

• Masafumi Mima Sound Director
• Shinji Miyazaki Original Music Composer

Visual Effects

• Masaaki Iwane Animation Director
• Sayuri Ichiishi Animation Director
• Akihiro Tamagawa Animation Director
• Sayuri Ichiishi Character Designer

Writing

• Takeshi Shudo Screenplay

Photos