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| Movies & Specials Guide | Lord
of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI
While on their journey, Satoshi and his friends are heading to the nearest town with a Pokemon Center to let their battle-weary pokemon rest. The name of this town is Greenfield and it was supposed to be a peaceful resort area where one can relax...
However, in a large mansion lives an incredibly lonely girl named Mii. One night, Mii is arranging these strange alphabet cards left behind by her missing father Sully when the mysterious pokemon Unknown suddenly appear. Soon after the entirety of Greenfield is covered in these strange crystals! Satoshi and his friends are reacting to this sudden change when the legendary pokemon Entei appears before them and then takes Satoshi's mother back with it to the Crystal Tower! Mii calls this Entei "papa," so does that mean her father Sully has become an Entei...? Can Satoshi rescue his mother and restore peace to Greenfield!?
Satoshi and his mother, Entei and Mii, and the link between parent and child that cannot be lost...it's a Pokemon adventure of love and courage!
Satoshi and his friends have come to a big city! There, Pikachu meets the Pichu brothers - the mischievous younger brother and the more mild-mannered younger brother. Pikachu then notices that the younger brother is goofing off on the top of a highrise building! It ends up on the roof of a bus, dunked in a river, and catapulted onto the back of a Delvil! Pikachu and its friends chase the Delvil to a secret base made up of tires where the ruckus they cause brings the whole thing tumbling down! They call on the other pokemon in the area to come help and combine their powers to rebuild it. But now it's time to go back home! Pikachu, followed by the Pichu brothers, rush toward the building where Satoshi and his friends are waiting. Will Pikachu make it back in time?
The first idea the film's writer Shudou Takeshi had for the movie was very different from the movie that ended up being produced. The original idea was to have a real world dinosaur fossil discovered which would then open up questions about what happened to all the real world animals that used to inhabit the Pokemon world. This Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil was later going to come to life wreak havoc throughout the Kanto Region and it would have been up to Satoshi, his friends, and the Rocket-Dan to stop it. The main theme of the film would have been "What is this world that I'm in?"
You can read more about this version of the film and why it was rejected here.
Coming Soon!
The official English title for this movie in Japan, as seen on its title screen and various promotional materials, is "Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI" The title is not a translation of the Japanese title (that would be "The Lord of the Crystal Tower Entei") and instead just seems to be a title the movie producers thought would sound cool. The 4Kids dub ended up going with a completely different title altogether though an early promotional teaser for the film did use the original Japanese title.
The idea of the Unknown causing everything to turn into crystal comes from J.G. Ballard novel "The Crystal World." The two stories are completely different but screenplay author Shudou Takeshi liked the scenery depicted in the novel and wanted to see it brought to the big screen.
When Mr. Shudou heard that Takenaka Naoto had been cast as Entei he was ecstatic. Twenty years earlier Mr. Shudou had written the screenplay for the TV drama version of the popular manga New Tonda Couple (新・翔んだカップル) and had written one of the side characters with Mr. Takenaka in mind. The role was eventually given to somebody else and so the idea of finally getting to work with Mr. Takenaka after all these years was very exciting for Mr. Shudou.
Entei was purposefully written so that everything it says has meaning; it doesn't talk if it doesn't have anything important to say. One such line, "If that's what Mii wishes..." (ミーがそれを望むなら……), was written specifically with Entei's voice actor Takenaka Naoto in mind.
The mansion where Mii lives was based on the Cologne Cathedral in Germany, particularly its twin towers. Each of the towers in the movie represents a different version of Mii; the Mii from the fictional world she created and the Mii after she wakes up in the real world. The movie staff did not go to Germany for location scouting.
All 26 Unknown in the film have their own unique cries.
The pamphlet that went on sale at the time of the movie's release reveals Mii's age at various points in the movie. She's 5 years old throughout most of the film but she fights Takeshi she turns into an 18 year old. When she fights Kasumi she transforms again, this time into a 10 year old. Yajima Akiko performs the voice for all three versions of Mii.
Additionally, each room has its own theme. The room where Mii battles Takeshi is the "Spring Room" (春の部屋) and the room where she battles Kasumi is the "Summer Room" (夏の部屋). The room where Mii keeps Satoshi's mother turns into "Winter Room" (冬の部屋) after she screams when Satoshi arrives to take his mother back.
The Pikachu short is sorta-kinda banned in Japan following the arrest of Sakai Noriko. More information will be posted at a later date.
The production staff jokingly refer to this Pikachu short and the two that came before it as the "tug of war trilogy" since all three films feature scenes of the pokemon pulling on ropes for one reason or another.
Sources:
Detailed
information about each home
release will be available shortly.
Fans who purchased a pre-order ticket also received a poster featuring all (at the time) 251 pokemon.
This was also the first movie to give something out to everyone who watched the movie regardless of whether or not they bought a pre-order ticket. Everyone who bought a ticket received both a Kapoeira and a Pupuprin "Pokemon Card NEO" card.
No event pokemon were distributed at this time.
Japan
Gross-to-date: 4,800,005,000 yen
Number of Days in Theaters: 63 days
Ranking: 2 → 3 → 2 → 3 → 4 → 3 → 4 → 4 → 6 → Out of the top ten
Sources: Pokepale
The manga adaptation of Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI was printed in booklet included in a summer 2000 issue of CoroCoro Comics.
It was never collected into graphic novel format and is therefore one of the most difficult manga to get a hold of.
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("The Lord of the Crystal Tower Entei") "Spell of the Unown" |
("Pichu and Pikachu") "Pikachu and Pichu" |
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While on their journey, Satoshi and his friends are heading to the nearest town with a Pokemon Center to let their battle-weary pokemon rest. The name of this town is Greenfield and it was supposed to be a peaceful resort area where one can relax...
However, in a large mansion lives an incredibly lonely girl named Mii. One night, Mii is arranging these strange alphabet cards left behind by her missing father Sully when the mysterious pokemon Unknown suddenly appear. Soon after the entirety of Greenfield is covered in these strange crystals! Satoshi and his friends are reacting to this sudden change when the legendary pokemon Entei appears before them and then takes Satoshi's mother back with it to the Crystal Tower! Mii calls this Entei "papa," so does that mean her father Sully has become an Entei...? Can Satoshi rescue his mother and restore peace to Greenfield!?
Satoshi and his mother, Entei and Mii, and the link between parent and child that cannot be lost...it's a Pokemon adventure of love and courage!
|
|
Satoshi and his friends have come to a big city! There, Pikachu meets the Pichu brothers - the mischievous younger brother and the more mild-mannered younger brother. Pikachu then notices that the younger brother is goofing off on the top of a highrise building! It ends up on the roof of a bus, dunked in a river, and catapulted onto the back of a Delvil! Pikachu and its friends chase the Delvil to a secret base made up of tires where the ruckus they cause brings the whole thing tumbling down! They call on the other pokemon in the area to come help and combine their powers to rebuild it. But now it's time to go back home! Pikachu, followed by the Pichu brothers, rush toward the building where Satoshi and his friends are waiting. Will Pikachu make it back in time?
|
|
The first idea the film's writer Shudou Takeshi had for the movie was very different from the movie that ended up being produced. The original idea was to have a real world dinosaur fossil discovered which would then open up questions about what happened to all the real world animals that used to inhabit the Pokemon world. This Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil was later going to come to life wreak havoc throughout the Kanto Region and it would have been up to Satoshi, his friends, and the Rocket-Dan to stop it. The main theme of the film would have been "What is this world that I'm in?"
You can read more about this version of the film and why it was rejected here.
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|
Coming Soon!
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| This
was the
final film to be written by Shudou Takeshi, though in reality he only
wrote the first draft due to illness. Sonoda Hideki was brought in to
help finish the story, making this the only film in the series to have
two people work on the screenplay. You can read more about his
departure from the series here. |
Pichu and Pikachu is sort-of kind-of
banned in Japan following the 2009 arrest of the short's narrator Sakai
Noriko. More information about this scandal can be found here. |
|
|
The official English title for this movie in Japan, as seen on its title screen and various promotional materials, is "Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI" The title is not a translation of the Japanese title (that would be "The Lord of the Crystal Tower Entei") and instead just seems to be a title the movie producers thought would sound cool. The 4Kids dub ended up going with a completely different title altogether though an early promotional teaser for the film did use the original Japanese title.
The idea of the Unknown causing everything to turn into crystal comes from J.G. Ballard novel "The Crystal World." The two stories are completely different but screenplay author Shudou Takeshi liked the scenery depicted in the novel and wanted to see it brought to the big screen.
When Mr. Shudou heard that Takenaka Naoto had been cast as Entei he was ecstatic. Twenty years earlier Mr. Shudou had written the screenplay for the TV drama version of the popular manga New Tonda Couple (新・翔んだカップル) and had written one of the side characters with Mr. Takenaka in mind. The role was eventually given to somebody else and so the idea of finally getting to work with Mr. Takenaka after all these years was very exciting for Mr. Shudou.
Entei was purposefully written so that everything it says has meaning; it doesn't talk if it doesn't have anything important to say. One such line, "If that's what Mii wishes..." (ミーがそれを望むなら……), was written specifically with Entei's voice actor Takenaka Naoto in mind.
The mansion where Mii lives was based on the Cologne Cathedral in Germany, particularly its twin towers. Each of the towers in the movie represents a different version of Mii; the Mii from the fictional world she created and the Mii after she wakes up in the real world. The movie staff did not go to Germany for location scouting.
All 26 Unknown in the film have their own unique cries.
The pamphlet that went on sale at the time of the movie's release reveals Mii's age at various points in the movie. She's 5 years old throughout most of the film but she fights Takeshi she turns into an 18 year old. When she fights Kasumi she transforms again, this time into a 10 year old. Yajima Akiko performs the voice for all three versions of Mii.
Additionally, each room has its own theme. The room where Mii battles Takeshi is the "Spring Room" (春の部屋) and the room where she battles Kasumi is the "Summer Room" (夏の部屋). The room where Mii keeps Satoshi's mother turns into "Winter Room" (冬の部屋) after she screams when Satoshi arrives to take his mother back.
The Pikachu short is sorta-kinda banned in Japan following the arrest of Sakai Noriko. More information will be posted at a later date.
The production staff jokingly refer to this Pikachu short and the two that came before it as the "tug of war trilogy" since all three films feature scenes of the pokemon pulling on ropes for one reason or another.
Sources:
Shudou Takeshi's Blog Number 212
"The Easy Parts of the Plot to Figure Out "Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI""
The "Data-Book" that came with the Pikachu the Movie Box 1998 - 2006 DVD box set
"The Easy Parts of the Plot to Figure Out "Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI""
The "Data-Book" that came with the Pikachu the Movie Box 1998 - 2006 DVD box set
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| Japanese Premiere Date | July 8th, 2000 |
| Domestic Premiere Date | April 6th, 2001 |
| Runtime ("Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI") |
70
minutes |
| Runtime ("Pichu and Pikachu") |
23
minutes |
| Opening
Theme ("Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI") |
OK! 2000
("OK! 2000") |
| Closing Theme ("Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI") |
虹がうまれた日 ("The Day a Rainbow was Born") by Mori Kumiko |
| Opening
Theme ("Pichu and Pikachu") |
ピチュピカ♪スウィング ("Pichu Pika ♪ Swing") by Neo★Pockets |
| Closing
Theme ("Pichu and Pikachu") |
ともだち記念日 ("Friend Anniversary") by Sakai Noriko and Takenaka Naoto |
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|
Lord of
the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI and Pichu
and Pikachu have seen a number of home releases between the two
of
them.
|
Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI |
| Opening Credits |
|
| Production 製作 |
Pikachu
Project 2000 (ピカチュウプロジェクト2000) |
| Original
Story 原案 |
Tajiri Satoshi (田尻 智) |
| Superviser スーパーバイザー |
Ishihara
Tsunekazu (石原恒
和) |
| Animation
Supervisor アニメーション監修 |
Kotabe
Youichi (小田部羊一) |
| Publication 掲載 |
Shogakukan
Monthly
CoroCoro Comics (小学館月刊コロコロコミック) Supplemental CoroCoro Comics (別冊コロコロコミック) Monthly Comic GOTTA (月刊コミックGOTTA) Shougaku Ichi-Nensei (小学一年生) Shougaku Ni-Nensei (小学二年生) Shougaku San-Nensei (小学三年生) Shougaku Yon-Nensei (小学四年生) Shougaku Go-Nensei (小学五年生) Shougaku Roku-Nensei (小学六年生) Mebae (めばえ) Kindergarten (幼稚園) Educational Kindergarten (学習幼稚園) TV-kun (てれびくん) Ciao (ちゃお) |
| Executive
Producer エグゼクティブプロデューサー |
Kubo
Masakazu (久保 雅一) Kawaguchi Takashi (川口孝司) |
| Original
Character Design キャラクター原 案 |
Sugimori
Ken (杉森建) Fujiwara Motofumi (藤原基史) Morimoto Shigeki (森本茂樹) Yoshida Hironobu (吉田宏信) Ohta Toshi (太田 敏) Nishida Atsuko (西田敦子) Saitou Muneo (斉藤むねお) Yoshikawa Reina (吉川玲奈) |
| Screenplay 脚本 |
Shudou
Takeshi
(首藤剛志) Sonoda Hideki (園田英樹) |
| Production 演出 |
Hidaka
Masamitsu (日高政光) Sutou Norihiko (須藤典彦) |
| Character
Design キャラクターデザイン |
Ichi'ishi
Sayuri
(一石小百合) Matsubara Norihiro (松原徳弘) Kagawa Hisashi (香川 久) |
| Chief Animator 総作画監督 |
Kagawa Hisashi (香川 久) |
| Art
Director 美術監督 |
Kanemura Katsuyoshi (金村勝義) |
| Director
of Photography 撮影監督 |
Shirai Hisao (白井久男) |
| Editing 編集 |
Henmi
Toshio (辺見俊夫) |
| Sound
Director 音響監督 |
Mima Masafumi (三間雅文) |
| Music 音楽 |
Miyazaki
Shinji (宮崎慎二) |
| Opening Theme Song オープニングテーマソング |
Tanaka
Hirokazu (たなかひろかず) |
| Animation
Producer アニメーションプロデューサー |
Okuno
Toshisato
(奥野敏聡) Kanda Shuukichi (神田修吉) |
| Animation Production アニメーション制作 |
OLM |
| Producers プロデューサー |
Yoshikawa
Chouji (吉川兆二) Matsusako Yukako (松迫由香子) Mori Takemoto (盛 武源) |
| Production 制作 |
Shougakukan
Production (小学館プロダクション) |
| Director 監督 |
Yuyama Kunihiko (湯山邦彦) |
|
"Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI" |
| Voice
Cast |
||
| Satoshi | Rika
Matsumoto 松本梨香 |
Veronica Taylor |
| Pikachu | Ohtani Ikue 大谷育江 |
Ohtani Ikue |
| Orchid-Hakase |
Ishizuka
Unshou 石塚運昇 |
Stan
Hart |
| Kasumi | Iizuka
Mayumi 飯塚雅弓 |
Racheal Lillis |
| Takeshi |
Ueda
Yuuji 上田祐司 |
Eric Stuart |
| Kenji |
Seki
Tomokazu 関智一 |
Ted
Lewis |
| Mii |
Yajima
Akiko 矢島晶子 |
Amy
Birnbaum |
| Musashi | Hayashibara
Megumi 林原めぐみ |
Racheal Lillis |
| Kojirou | Miki
Shin'ichirou 三木眞一郎 |
Eric Stuart |
| Nyasu | Inuyama
Inuko 犬山犬子 |
Maddie Blaustein |
| Mama |
Toyoshima
Masami 豊島まさみ |
Veronica Taylor |
| Joi |
Shiraishi
Ayako 白石文子 |
??? |
| Junsa |
Nishimura
Chinami 西村ちなみ |
Lee
Quick |
| Togepi |
Ko'orogi Satomi こおろぎさとみ |
Ko'orogi Satomi |
| Chicorita |
Kanai
Mika かないみか |
??? |
| Rokon |
Aikawa
Rikako 愛河里花子 |
??? |
| Aipom |
Kozakura
Etsuko 小桜エツ子 |
??? |
| Mantain |
Konishi Katsuyuki 小西克幸 |
??? |
| Reporter |
Soumi
Youko 沢海陽子 |
??? |
| Cameraman |
Sakaguchi
Kouichi 坂口候一 |
??? |
| Special Guest Voices |
||
| Entei | Takenaka
Naoto 竹中直人 |
Dan
Green |
| John |
Yakumaru
Hirohide 薬丸裕英 |
Ed
Paul |
| Rin |
Katou
Ai 加藤あい |
Lisa
Ortiz |
| David |
Yamadera
Kou'ichi 山寺宏一 |
??? |
|
"Pichu and Pikachu" |
| Pikachu | Ohtani Ikue 大谷育江 |
Ohtani Ikue |
| Pichu
(older brother) |
Touma
Yumi 冬馬由美 |
Touma Yumi |
| Pichu
(younger brother) |
Ko'orogi
Satomi こおろぎさとみ |
Ko'orogi Satomi |
| Nyasu | Inuyama
Inuko 犬山犬子 |
Maddie Blaustein |
| Chicorita |
Kanai Mika かないみか |
Kanai Mika |
| Fushigidane | Hayashibara Megumi 林原めぐみ |
Tara Jayne |
| Koduck |
Aikawa
Rikako 愛河里花子 |
Michael Haigney |
| Iwaku |
Ishizuka
Unshou 石塚運昇 |
Ishizuka Unshou |
| Hitodeman |
Miki
Shin'ichirou 三木眞一郎 |
Miki Shin'ichirou |
| Waninoko |
Nishimura
Chinami 西村ちなみ |
Kayzie
Rogers |
| Delvil |
Tatsuta
Naoki 龍田直樹 |
??? |
| Kapoeira |
Nakamura
Daiki 中村大樹 |
??? |
| Kabigon |
Ogata
Mitsuru 小形 満 |
??? |
| Buby |
Yukiji ゆきじ |
??? |
| Kimawari |
Kozakura
Etsuko 小桜エツ子 |
??? |
| Tsubotsubo |
Sakaguchi
Kouichi 坂口候一 |
??? |
| Koratta |
Konishi Katsuyuki 小西克幸 |
??? |
| Nazonokusa |
Tsuji
Kaori 辻 香織 |
??? |
| Ohtachi |
Yuzuki
Ryouka 柚木涼香 |
??? |
| Satoshi | Rika
Matsumoto 松本梨香 |
Veronica Taylor |
| Kasumi | Iizuka
Mayumi 飯塚雅弓 |
Racheal Lillis |
| Takeshi | Ueda
Yuuji 上田祐司 |
Eric Stuart |
| Special Guest Voices |
||
| Narrator | Sakai
Noriko 酒井法子 |
Rodger
Parsons |
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Fans who purchased a pre-order ticket also received a poster featuring all (at the time) 251 pokemon.
This was also the first movie to give something out to everyone who watched the movie regardless of whether or not they bought a pre-order ticket. Everyone who bought a ticket received both a Kapoeira and a Pupuprin "Pokemon Card NEO" card.
No event pokemon were distributed at this time.
|
|
Japan
Gross-to-date: 4,800,005,000 yen
Number of Days in Theaters: 63 days
Ranking: 2 → 3 → 2 → 3 → 4 → 3 → 4 → 4 → 6 → Out of the top ten
Sources: Pokepale
United States
Gross-to-date: $17,052,128
Number of Days in Theaters: 66
Ranking: 4 → 8 → 15 → 23 → 28 → 37 → 55 → 44 → 57
Sources: Box Office Mojo
Gross-to-date: $17,052,128
Number of Days in Theaters: 66
Ranking: 4 → 8 → 15 → 23 → 28 → 37 → 55 → 44 → 57
Sources: Box Office Mojo
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|
The manga adaptation of Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI was printed in booklet included in a summer 2000 issue of CoroCoro Comics.
It was never collected into graphic novel format and is therefore one of the most difficult manga to get a hold of.
|
|
A number of CDs were released
specifically for this movie.
Detailed
information about each home
release will be available shortly.
|
|
|
("Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI") |
("Pichu and Pikachu") |
 Tidbits from the movie's pamphlet |
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|
"Pokémon 3 The Movie" |
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