Pokémon: The First Movie (1998)
Overview
Determined to prove its superiority, a bio-engineered Pokémon called Mewtwo lures Ash, Pikachu and others into a Pokemon match like none before.
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $5,000,000.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $172,700,000.00 |
| Original Language | ja |
| Popularity | 29.89 |
Directed By
Kunihiko Yuyama
Crew
Choji Yoshikawa
Takeshi Shudo
Kunihiko Yuyama
Izumi Shimura
Sayuri Ichiishi
Kunihiko Yuyama
Kaori Kunii
Fumiyo Kimura
Katsuichi Nakayama
Akiko Nakamura
Yuzo Sato
Satoshi Kubo
Yasuhide Maruyama
Masao Nakata
Masaya Fujimori
Tomoko Takei
Masahiro Sekiguchi
Yuriko Chiba
Masatsugu Takeda
Masaaki Iwane
Katsuyuki Tamura
Mamiko Nakanishi
Yoshiaki Yanagida
Eikichi Takahashi
Yuji Mukoyama
Hiroko Kazui
Hideaki Maniwa
Shunya Yamada
Nori Nakamura
Yoshihiro Nagamori
Yoshihiro Osugi
Masaya Fujimori
Kazumi Sato
Izumi Shimura
Midori Nagaoka
Koji Fukasawa
Takuya Matsumoto
Hiromi Niioka
Etsuhito Mori
Junko Isaka
Kazuaki Mori
Satoru Iriyoshi
Toshiharu Kumaoka
Masaru Fukumoto
Tsunenaka Nozaki
Tadaaki Miyata
Masami Takebuchi
Masao Suwa
Midori Yamakubo
Shoichi Masuo
Yumi Chiba
Tetsuro Kaku
Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Eiko Saito
Satomi Kitahara
Norihiro Matsubara
Hisao Shirai
Satoshi Tajiri
Shinji Miyazaki
Hirokazu Tanaka
TOP 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'ichirō Miki
Kojirō (voice)
Inuko Inuyama
Nyarth (voice)
Ayako Shiraishi
Joy (voice)
Chinami Nishimura
Junsar (voice)
Hirotaka Suzuoki
Sakaki (voice)
Unsho Ishizuka
Narrator (voice)
Masachika Ichimura
Mewtwo (voice)
Koichi Yamadera
Mew (voice)
Toru Furuya
Sorao (voice)
Aiko Sato
Sweet (voice)
Wataru Takagi
Umio (voice)
Raymond Johnson
Raymond (voice)
Sachiko Kobayashi
Voyager (voice)
Yosuke Akimoto
Dr. Fuji (voice)
Shinobu Adachi
Dr. Fuji's Wife (voice)
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