Pocket Monsters the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back! - The Kanzenban Edition Poster

Pocket Monsters the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back! - The Kanzenban Edition (1999)

07/08/1999 Animation 1h 25m
90%
User
Score

Overview

While on a journey to become a Pokémon Master, Satoshi and his friends receive a special invitation. However, what they don't know is that this invitation is really a trap planned by Mewtwo! Satoshi and his friends cross the ocean during a terrific storm to reach the "Pokémon Castle" where they're greeted by Mewtwo, a Pokémon who claims to be both the world's strongest Pokémon and the world's strongest Pokémon Trainer! Mewtwo plans to capture everyone's Pokémon and use them to make superior Copies in a plan to get revenge against humans everywhere.

Kunihiko Yuyama

Director

Takeshi Shudo

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Rica Matsumoto

Rica Matsumoto

Satoshi (Voice)

Ikue Otani

Ikue Otani

Pikachu

Mayumi Izuka

Mayumi Izuka

Kasumi (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)

Satomi Korogi

Satomi Korogi

Togepy (Voice)

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Media

Pocket Monsters Mewtwo Strikes Back Trailer #5

Pocket Monsters Mewtwo Strikes Back Trailer #5

Pokémon Mewtwo Strikes Back Japanese Trailer #4

Pokémon Mewtwo Strikes Back Japanese Trailer #4

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Reviews

A review by JT94

Written on March 15, 2025

The Kanzenban Edition, is the original Japanese cut, with the inclusion of an extra ten minute prologue, and a variety of redrawn and re-animated scenes, including new CGI effects. This version, addressed as 'The Kanzenban' aired on July 8th 1999 and became the permanent replacement of the theatrical cut in physical releases and airings in Japan (the exact same issue that the _Star Wars Special Editions_ did to the theatrical release).

Compared to '_Pokemon The First Movie_', the English dub - this is an entirely different film from start to finish. The ten minute prologue was cut out, the soundtrack was almost completely replaced and roughly 90% of the dialogue was rewritten to tell a different story, and sadly these dialogue changes were done intentionally, in an effort to change cert...

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