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Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie
Cardcaptor Sakura The Movie DVD cover
DVD cover
Kanji 劇場版カードキャプターさくら
Rōmaji Gekijōban Kādokyaputā Sakura
Directed by Morio Asaka
Produced by Kazuhiko Ikeguchi
Tatsuya Ono
Written by Nanase Ohkawa
Starring Sakura Tange
Aya Hisakawa
Motoko Kumai
Junko Iwao
Tomokazu Seki
Megumi Ogata
Yukana Nogami
Music by Takayuki Negishi
Cinematography Hisao Shirai
Editing by Harutoshi Ogata
Studio Madhouse
Distributed by Bandai Visual
Release date(s) August 21, 1999
Running time 79 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie (劇場版カードキャプターさくら, Gekijōban Kādokyaputā Sakura?) is a Japanese anime film directed by Morio Asaka and produced by Madhouse and Bandai Visual. The film is based on the anime TV series adaptation of CLAMP's Cardcaptor Sakura manga series. Written by Nanase Ohkawa, Clamp's head writer, it was released in Japanese theatres on August 21, 1999. It was the Feature Film Award at the 1999 Animation Kobe.[1]

Set between the first and second seasons of the television series, after "Sakura's Wonderful Christmas" and before "Sakura and the Snowy New School Term. "

Plot[]

The film begins with Sakura and Syaoran capturing the Arrow card, with Tomoyo videotaping the event and Kero and Meiling cheering for the two. Later that night, Sakura has a strange dream of being surrounded by water and of a strange woman. The next day, everyone receives their report cards, which all but Meiling got good grades. Syaoran is nervous of his grades because of his mother, but is relieved that he got decent grades to show her. Sakura and Tomoyo go shopping and visit Maki's shop, Twin Bells, where Sakura plays a lotto and wins a trip to Hong Kong. Sakura invites Tomoyo to go with her, and wants her father to go too. However, because of his job, he is unable to and that leaves Touya, much to her dismay. But she is cheered up when Yukito decides to go as well.

Along with Kero, they fly to Hong Kong. Once there, Sakura feels a strange presence involving water. She is separated from her friends and hypnotized into nearly falling into water until Syaoran suddenly appears and snaps her out of it. Meanwhile, Tomoyo runs into Meiling, who explains that she and Syaoran have returned to Hong Kong for the spring break. She offers them to come back to the Li mansion so Sakura can change clothes after tripping in the water. There, they meet Syaoran's four older sisters and his mother, Yelan Li, who takes an immediate interest in Sakura and invites them to sleep over, much to Syaoran's chagrin. Sakura is later warned, by Yelan's elemental diving spell, that a powerful magical force is following Sakura, and has thus compelled her to Hong Kong.

Syaoran is forced by his mother to accompany Sakura and the others around the city. However, Sakura encounters a woman named Madoushi with the same magical presence she has been feeling and uses water as her weapon. One by one, the spirit captures Touya, Yukito, Tomoyo, and Meiling. Sakura and Syaoran team up to save their friends. While Syaoran fights Madoushi, Sakura frees Tomoyo. However Syaoran is defeated and captured, and he orders Sakura to run and save everyone. Coming back into the room Sakura tries and fails to find the book that transported them to the other dimension. Now back in the hotel room Kero tells Sakura and Tomoyo a tale of Madoushi a water-based fortuneteller in Hong Kong who had a romance and then fierce rivalry with Clow Reed after he accidentally put her out of business due to his predictions being more accurate than hers, and now she lingers in another dimension waiting for Clow Reed to release her.

When trying to figure out how to go back to the woman to save their friends, Sakura remembers the well and realizes that that's the place to go. Arriving at the well the three find out there is a barrier around the water well, when trying to figure out how to get in they hear footsteps coming toward them. Syaoran's mother, Yelan Li shows up and splits the barrier for Sakura. Telling Tomoyo to stay, Sakura goes in to the well alone. While going through, Kero tells Sakura to think of where she wants to go. She thinks "I want to go to where my friends are", she arrives in a room. The two birds of Madoushi from before are there and flies away. Sakura runs and arrives at a door. she opens the door to find water filled up to the top of the roof. She swims to the top to once again confront the fortune teller.

Madoushi demands to know where Clow Reed is, and that she has been using her magic to summon him and only Sakura appeared. Sakura tells the spirit that Clow Reed has been dead for many years, which the spirit refuses to believe. Madoushi attacks Sakura and demands the truth, and sadly saying she has been waiting for him for a long time. Sakura realizes that the woman in fact loved Clow Reed after he gave her a hair ornament, and finally Madoushi believes that Clow Reed is dead. With that, she dissolves into water, leaving only the hair ornament she has cherished, which dissolves a minute after she's gone. Everyone is free of their prison and everything returns to normal.

The film concludes with everyone preparing to board a ferry and are about to return to Japan. Everyone does not remember anything, which the three says that that's a good thing. But the movie ends with Sakura saying that she has a feeling she has not seen the last of Hong Kong.

Characters[]

Featured Cards[]

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Production[]

The same production staff that produced the anime TV series adaptation. The character designs were by DVD in Japan by Bandai Visual on February 25, 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.

Media releases[]

Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie was released on VHS, LD and DVD in Japan by Bandai Visual on February 25, 2000.[2][3] The film was re-released on November 25, 2000 on VHS,[4] May 25, 2007 on DVD in a two-disc set with Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card,[5] and on December 22, 2009 on DVD.[6] Nelvana released an English dubbed version of the film, retaining the same name and story changes as its main Cardcaptors dub. As with the television series, Pioneer Entertainment released the film without editing, including the original Japanese audio and English subtitles. Both the edited and unedited versions were released on VHS and DVD on March 26, 2002.[7][8]

The theme song for the film is "Tōi Kono Machi de" (遠いこの街で, [missing rōmaji]?) by Naomi Kaitani. The single containing the song was released on August 11, 1999 by Victor Entertainment.[9] The film's original soundtrack was released on August 25, 1999 by Victor Entertainment containing one disc and 30 tracks.[10]

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References[]

  1. "The Animation Kobe" (in Japanese). Animation Kobe. http://www.anime-kobe.jp/archive/1999/award/movie.html. Retrieved September 23, 2010. 
  2. "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. http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005EEVT/. Retrieved September 23, 2010. 
  3. "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. http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005EDNP/. Retrieved September 23, 2010. 
  4. "Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie Batchishi V Series" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005HPDH/. Retrieved September 23, 2010. 
  5. "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. http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000N0WBFY/. Retrieved September 23, 2010. 
  6. "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. http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B002KNRIN2/. Retrieved September 23, 2010. 
  7. "Cardcaptors - The Movie [VHS (2000)"]. Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005V9KA/. Retrieved September 23, 2010. 
  8. "Cardcaptor Sakura - The Movie (1999)". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005V9HE/. Retrieved September 23, 2010. 
  9. "遠いこの街で (Single) [Tōi Kono Machi de (Single)]" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. http://www.amazon.co.j/dp/B00005GYYO/. Retrieved September 23, 2010. 
  10. "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. http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005GXQI/. Retrieved September 23, 2010. 

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