Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns (2001)
AnimationFamilyActionAdventureDramaFantasy
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.
Director:
Masamitsu Hidaka
Writer:
Takeshi Shudo
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Rica Matsumoto as Satoshi (voice) |
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Ikue Otani as Pikachu (voice) |
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Mayumi Izuka as Kasumi (voice) |
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Satomi Korogi as Togepy (voice) |
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Yuji Ueda as Takeshi (voice) |
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Megumi Hayashibara as Musashi (voice) |
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Shin-ichiro Miki as Kojiro (voice) |
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Inuko Inuyama as Nyarth (voice) |
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Masachika Ichimura as Mewtwo (voice) |
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Hirotaka Suzuoki as Sakaki (voice) |
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Kotono Mitsuishi as Domino (voice) |
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Chinami Nishimura as Junsar (voice) |
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Unsho Ishizuka as Narrator (voice) |
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Aya Hisakawa as Luna Carson (voice) |
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Yumi Touma as Luka Carson (voice) |
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Rikiya Koyama as Penicillina (voice) |
| Directing | Masamitsu Hidaka | Director |
| Writing | Takeshi Shudo | Screenplay |
| Sound | Masafumi Mima | Sound Director |
| Production | Makiko Iwata | Producer |
| Production | Takemoto Mori | Producer |
| Production | Takayuki Yanagisawa | Producer |
| Production | Choji Yoshikawa | Associate Producer |
| Editing | Toshio Henmi | Editor |
| Art | Katsuyoshi Kanemura | Art Direction |
| Production | Tsunekazu Ishihara | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Shoji Ota | Production Manager |
| Production | Nobuyuki Wasaki | Production Manager |
| Art | Yuji Asada | Storyboard Artist |
| Directing | Yuji Asada | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Koji Fukasawa | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Kiyotaka Itani | Assistant Director |
| Art | Motofumi Fujiwara | Concept Artist |
| Art | Koji Fukasawa | Storyboard Artist |
| Art | Kiyotaka Itani | Storyboard Artist |
| Art | Hiroyuki Jinnai | Other |
| Art | Kunimi Kawamura | Other |
| Art | Shigeki Morimoto | Concept Artist |
| Art | Atsuko Nishida | Concept Artist |
| Art | Gakuji Nomoto | Other |
| Art | Satoshi Ohta | Concept Artist |
| Art | Muneo Saito | Concept Artist |
| Art | Ken Sugimori | Concept Artist |
| Art | Hironobu Yoshida | Concept Artist |
| Art | Rena Yoshikawa | Concept Artist |
| Visual Effects | Sayuri Ichiishi | Animation Director |
| Visual Effects | Sayuri Ichiishi | Character Designer |
| Visual Effects | Masaaki Iwane | Animation Director |
| Art | Masahiro Nakazawa | Other |
| Visual Effects | Akihiro Tamagawa | Animation Director |
| Camera | Takaya Mizutani | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Shinji Miyazaki | Original Music Composer |