Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns (2001)
Original title: ポケットモンスター ミュウツー! 我ハココニ在リ MEWTWO SAGA
Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns is a 2001 Japanese-language animation movie directed by Masamitsu Hidaka, with a running time of 1h 3m. It stars Rica Matsumoto, Ikue Otani and Mayumi Izuka.
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.
Cast
- Rica Matsumoto as Satoshi (voice)
- Ikue Otani as Pikachu (voice)
- Mayumi Izuka as Kasumi (voice)
- Satomi Korogi as Togepy (voice)
- Yuji Ueda as Takeshi (voice)
- Megumi Hayashibara as Musashi (voice)
- Shin-ichiro Miki as Kojiro (voice)
- Inuko Inuyama as Nyarth (voice)
- Masachika Ichimura as Mewtwo (voice)
- Hirotaka Suzuoki as Sakaki (voice)
- Kotono Mitsuishi as Domino (voice)
- Chinami Nishimura as Junsar (voice)