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List of Pokémon films

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Pokémon is a media franchise created by video game designer Satoshi Tajiri that centers on fictional creatures called Pokémon. As of 2020, there have been twenty-three animated films and one live action film. The first nineteen animated films are based on the anime television series of the same name, while the twentieth, twenty-first, and twenty-third are set in an alternate continuity to the anime. The films are produced by animation studios OLM, Production I.G, Xebec, and Wit Studio, and distributed in Japan by Toho, with various studios distributing the films in North America. They were directed by Kunihiko Yuyama and Tetsuo Yajima and written by Takeshi Shudo, Hideki Sonoda, Atsuhiro Tomioka, Shōji Yonemura, Eiji Umehara, and Aya Takaha. The first Pokémon animated film, Pokémon: The First Movie, was released in Japan in 1998, and in 2019 was remade as Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back – Evolution. A live-action film, Pokémon Detective Pikachu, was produced by American studio Legendary Entertainment, directed by Rob Letterman, and written by Letterman and Nicole Perlman.[1] It was distributed in Japan by Toho and outside of Japan and China by Warner Bros.[2] It was released on May 10, 2019.[3]

Pokémon anime films release timeline
1998Pokémon: The First Movie
1999Pokémon the Movie 2000
2000Pokémon 3: The Movie
2001Pokémon 4Ever
2002Pokémon Heroes
2003Pokémon: Jirachi, Wish Maker
2004Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys
2005Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew
2006Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea
2007Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai
2008Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior
2009Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life
2010Pokémon—Zoroark: Master of Illusions
2011Pokémon the Movie: White—Victini and Zekrom
Pokémon the Movie: Black—Victini and Reshiram
2012Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice
2013Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened
2014Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction
2015Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages
2016Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel
2017Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You!
2018Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us
2019Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back — Evolution
2020Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle
Pokémon live action films release timeline
2019Detective Pikachu

The films star Pokémon Trainer Ash Ketchum and his partner Pokémon, Pikachu. Detective Pikachu is based on the 2016 video game Detective Pikachu and stars Ryan Reynolds as the motion capture role of Detective Pikachu,[4] with Justice Smith and Kathryn Newton as the lead human roles.[5]

There are also two animated television specials broadcast on TV Tokyo featuring Ash and his Pikachu and ten animated short films. Warner Bros. licensed the first three animated films in North America and Miramax Films licensed the following four films. From the eighth film onwards, licensing has been handled by The Pokémon Company International themselves, with various distributors handling the releases, such as Viz Media in North America.

The most recent film, Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle, was originally set for release in Japanese theaters on July 10, 2020, but delayed to December 25, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was released on October 8, 2021, in the United States.[6][7]

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Anime films

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Live-action films

The launch of the mobile game Pokémon Go in 2016 reignited mainstream interest in the Pokémon franchise in the Western market since its initial peak in the early 2000s, and various Hollywood film companies approached The Pokémon Company to gain film rights. Eventually, Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Entertainment struck a deal to produce a live-action adaptation of the 2018 video game Detective Pikachu; Pokémon Detective Pikachu, the first official live-action Pokémon film. In January 2019, ahead of the film's release, Legendary began development on a sequel.[15]

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Pikachu shorts

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Pikachu shorts are a series of twenty-seven animated short films shown at the start of animated theatrical films based on Pokémon, and have also been shown on ANA flights in Japan and released during Christmas as Pikachu's Winter Vacation.

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Television specials

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These television specials, which run longer than the normal half-hour and are usually not separated into more than one episode in either the original or the dub, are often considered TV Pokémon movies, not counting towards the running total. They do not air in theaters, but are instead broadcast on the same networks that the anime is broadcast on for their premieres. Though they may air around the same time as episodes of the anime, usually in the anime's normal timeslot, they are not assigned episode numbers.

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Home media

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Critical reception

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Notes

  1. In Black—Victini and Reshiram.
  2. In White—Victini and Zekrom.
  3. The movie was originally scheduled to be released on July 10, 2020, but the release was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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