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Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns

Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns

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Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns

"An all-new Johto movie adventure!"

2001

1h 3m

6.8(434 votes)

Animation

Family

Action

Adventure

Drama

Fantasy

Overview

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.

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Production Companies

OLM

TV Tokyo

jeki

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Rica Matsumoto

Rica Matsumoto

Satoshi (voice)

Ikue Otani

Ikue Otani

Pikachu (voice)

Mayumi Izuka

Mayumi Izuka

Kasumi (voice)

Satomi Korogi

Satomi Korogi

Togepy (voice)

Yuji Ueda

Yuji Ueda

Takeshi (voice)

Megumi Hayashibara

Megumi Hayashibara

Musashi (voice)

Shin-ichiro Miki

Shin-ichiro Miki

Kojiro (voice)

Inuko Inuyama

Inuko Inuyama

Nyarth (voice)

Masachika Ichimura

Masachika Ichimura

Mewtwo (voice)

Hirotaka Suzuoki

Hirotaka Suzuoki

Sakaki (voice)

Creative team

Directed by: Masamitsu Hidaka
Written by: Takeshi Shudo
Produced by: Makiko Iwata
Takemoto Mori

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