Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
When Lawrence III's scheme to capture the Legendary Pokémon Lugia upsets the balance of nature, it is up to Ash Ketchum and his friends to save the world.
- prophecy
- ocean
- legend
- villain
- chosen one
- collector
- based on video game
- tropical island
- anime
- adventure
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Rica Matsumoto
Satoshi (voice)
Ikue Otani
Pikachu (voice)
Mayumi Izuka
Kasumi (voice)
Satomi Korogi
Togepy (voice)
- Tomokazu Seki — Kenji (voice)
- Megumi Hayashibara — Musashi (voice)
- Shin-ichiro Miki — Kojiro (voice)
- Inuko Inuyama — Nyarth (voice)
- Unsho Ishizuka — Dr. Okido / Narrator (voice)
- Masami Toyoshima — Hanako (voice)
- Takeshi Kaga — Gelardan (voice)
- Masatoshi Hamada — Yadoking (voice)
- Koichi Yamadera — Lugia (voice)
- Akiko Hiramatsu — Fleura (voice)
- Kotono Mitsuishi — Michiko (voice)
- Directed
- Kunihiko Yuyama
- Written
- Takeshi Shudo
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 967 ratings
- Studio
- Nintendo, OLM, Pikachu Project '99, Shogakukan, TV Tokyo, GAME FREAK
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1998Pokémon: The First Movie
Where it starts.
Pokémon the Movie 2000
1999 · You’re here
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
