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Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie

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Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji劇場版カードキャプターさくら
Literal meaningCardcaptor Sakura the Movie
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnGekijō-ban Kādokyaputā Sakura
Directed byMorio Asaka
Written byNanase Ohkawa
Based onCardcaptor Sakura
by Clamp
Produced byKazuhiko Ikeguchi
Tatsuya Ono
StarringSakura Tange
Aya Hisakawa
Motoko Kumai
Junko Iwao
Tomokazu Seki
Megumi Ogata
Yukana Nogami
CinematographyHisao Shirai
Edited byHarutoshi Ogata
Music byTakayuki Negishi
Production
company
Distributed byBandai Visual
Shochiku
Release date
  • August 21, 1999 (1999-08-21)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie[a] is a 1999 Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Morio Asaka and produced by Madhouse and Bandai Visual. The film is based on the anime television series adaptation of Clamp's Cardcaptor Sakura manga series. Written by Nanase Ohkawa, Clamp's head writer, it was released in Japanese theaters on August 21, 1999. It won the Feature Film Award at the 1999 Animation Kobe.[1] Set between the first and second seasons of the television series, the film follows Sakura Kinomoto and her friends as they travel to Hong Kong and encounter a vengeful spirit who was hurt by Clow Reed in the past. A second film, Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card, was released in 2000.

Plot

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Sakura Kinomoto, Cardcaptor of the Clow Cards, successfully seals the Arrow Card with help from her friends Syaoran Li, Kero, Tomoyo Daidoji, and Meiling Li. That night, Sakura experiences a strange dream where two pieces of cloth pull her underwater. After school ends for spring break, Sakura and Tomoyo visit the "Twin Bells" shop where Sakura participates in a lottery to win a vacation to Hong Kong. As Sakura reaches for a lottery ball, one magically flies into her hand, the winning ball for the vacation. Sakura goes with Tomoyo, Kero, her big brother Toya and his best friend Yukito Tsukishiro, who Sakura has a crush on.

As the group tour the city, Sakura experiences the dream again, this time including two malevolent birds and a mysterious woman wearing the floating clothes. During a tour of the Yuen Po Street Bird Garden (also referred to as "Bird Street"), Sakura spots the two birds and pursues them across the city, finding an old water well where the clothes emerge and hypnotize her. As Sakura is drawn towards the well, Syaoran appears and scares the birds away. Reuniting with the others including Meiling, Sakura is taken to the Li family estate, where she meets Syaoran's four eccentric older sisters and his mother, Yelan, a powerful sorceress who senses Sakura is in danger. Staying for the night, Sakura experiences the dream again where the woman attacks her. Yelan takes Sakura outside and warns her that the woman is extremely powerful and is deliberately contacting Sakura. The next day, Syaoran and Meiling are forced to accompany Sakura and the group around Hong Kong to aid them if something should happen.

Sakura spots the birds again and pursues them with Kero. They chase them down to an antique store, where they come across an old book that has a picture of the woman on the cover. Sakura is hypnotised again and opens the book before her friends, flooding the shop and transporting the group to another dimension where the woman dwells. The birds are revealed to be her clothes. The woman, actually a sorceress named Madoushi, attacks Sakura in rage, believing she had summoned Clow Reed, creator of the Clow Cards. Sakura discovers that her friends, except for Syaoran, have been taken prisoner, and Madoushi demands Clow come in exchange for their freedom. Syaoran attempts to distract Madoushi so Sakura can rescue Tomoyo, but is captured as well. Sakura escapes with Kero and Tomoyo back to the antique store, but find the book has vanished. Kero realizes he knows Madoushi, and explains that she was a fortune teller who was unintentionally put out of business by Clow when his predictions turned out to be more accurate than hers. Madoushi challenged him to one fight after another and her hatred bound her to another dimension, but is likely unaware she is a spirit. Sakura realizes the well appeared on the book cover and that it is another entrance to Madoushi's prison.

Sakura goes to the well where she encounters Yelan, who breaks the shield surrounding the well to allow Sakura and Kero to enter. Sakura confronts Madoushi, who uses the magic of Sakura's friends to escape her prison, but is shocked by Hong Kong's modern-day appearance. Sakura and Kero follow, but Madoushi captures Sakura and holds her prisoner. When Sakura tells her of Clow's passing, Madoushi angrily tries to drown Sakura by trapping her in a flooded skyscraper with her clothes. Sakura uses the Arrow Card to escape and she confronts Madoushi, sympathizing with the sorceress and confirms Clow is dead. Madoushi dissolves into water, passing on, but releases Sakura's friends. While Toya and Yukito have no memory of what happened, Sakura tells Tomoyo and Kero they may have to visit Hong Kong again in the future.

Voice cast

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Character Japanese English
Sakura Kinomoto Sakura Tange Carly McKillip
Tomoyo Daidoji Junko Iwao Maggie Blue O'Hara
Syaoran Li Motoko Kumai Rhys Huber
Kero Aya Hisakawa Matt Hill
Meiling Li Yukana Nogami Nicole Oliver
Toya Kinomoto Tomokazu Seki Tony Sampson
Yukito Tsukishiro Megumi Ogata Samuel Vincent
Fujitaka Kinomoto Hideyuki Tanaka Brian Drummond
Clow Reed Kazuo Hayashi Dale Wilson
Yelan Li Kikuko Inoue Stevie Vallance
Madoushi / Su Yung Megumi Hayashibara Nicole Oliver
Fudie Li Yuriko Yamaguchi –
Shiefa Li Chiyako Shibahara –
Fanren Li Rika Wakusawa –
Feimei Li Sachiko Sugawara –
Yoshiyuki Terada / Mr. Terada Toru Furusawa Brian Drummond
Maki Matsumoto / Maggie Kotono Mitsuishi Nicole Oliver

Production

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The same production staff that produced the anime television series adaptation of Cardcaptor Sakura also produced Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie.[2] The film was animated by Madhouse, produced by Bandai Visual, directed by Morio Asaka, written by Nanase Ohkawa of Clamp, and featured character designs by Kumiko Takahashi, who based the designs on Clamp's original illustrations. The art director for the film was Katsufumi Hariu, and there were three animation directors: Hitoshi Ueda, Kumiko Takahashi and Kunihiko Sakurai. The music was produced by Takayuki Negishi, with Masafumi Mima as the sound director.[2]

Media releases

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Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie was released on VHS, LD and DVD in Japan by Bandai Visual on February 25, 2000.[3][4] The film was re-released on November 25, 2000 on VHS,[5] May 25, 2007 on DVD in a two-disc set with Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card,[6] and on December 22, 2009 on DVD.[7] Nelvana released an English dubbed version of the film with Voicebox productions retaining the same name and story changes as its main Cardcaptors dub, although it was dubbed visually uncut and released in both edited and uncut editions. This version first aired on Teletoon in its native Canada on April 6, 2002.[8] As with the television series, Pioneer Entertainment also released the film on home video with the original Japanese audio and English subtitles. Both the edited and unedited versions were released on VHS and DVD on March 26, 2002.[9][10] Discotek Media released the film on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on September 30, 2014 in North America.[11] The film was screened in theaters again on January 21, 2017 in Japan to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the manga.[12]

The theme song for the film is "Tōi Kono Machi de" (遠いこの街で, "In This Distant City") by Naomi Kaitani. The single containing the song was released on August 11, 1999 by Victor Entertainment.[13] The film's original soundtrack was released on August 25, 1999 by Victor Entertainment containing one disc and 30 tracks.[14]

Notes

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  1. ^ Known in Japan as Cardcaptor Sakura the Movie (劇場版カードキャプターさくら, Gekijō-ban Kādokyaputā Sakura)

References

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  1. ^ "The Animation Kobe" (in Japanese). Animation Kobe. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
  2. ^ a b "Madhouse.co.jp" 劇場版 カードキャプターさくら [Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie] (in Japanese). Madhouse. Retrieved September 25, 2010.
  3. ^ "カードキャプターさくら【劇場版】 (VHS)" [Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie (VHS)] (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. 25 February 2000. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
  4. ^ "カードキャプターさくら【劇場版】 (DVD)" [Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie (DVD)] (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
  5. ^ "カードキャプターさくら【劇場版】~ばっちしVシリーズ (VHS)" [Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie Batchishi V Series] (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. 25 November 2000. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
  6. ^ "カードキャプターさくら THE MOVIE COLLECTION (初回限定生産) (DVD)" [Cardcaptor Sakura The Movie Collection (limited production) (DVD)] (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. 25 May 2007. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
  7. ^ "劇場版 カードキャプターさくら (DVD)" [Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie (DVD)] (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. 22 December 2009. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
  8. ^ "Television Program Logs". Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. March 2, 2016.[dead link‍] Alt URL
  9. ^ "Cardcaptors - The Movie [VHS] (2000)". Amazon. 26 March 2002. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
  10. ^ "Cardcaptor Sakura - The Movie (1999)". Amazon. 26 March 2002. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
  11. ^ "Discotek Adds Devilman TV, Cardcaptor Sakura Film, Jin-Roh, Dallos". Anime News Network. July 16, 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  12. ^ 劇場版リバイバル特設 (in Japanese). Madhouse and Bandai Visual. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  13. ^ "遠いこの街で (Single)" [Tōi Kono Machi de (Single)] (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
  14. ^ カードキャプターさくら ― オリジナル・サウンドトラック [Cardcaptor Sakura – Original Soundtrack] (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
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