Release / General Information

Japanese Premiere Date	July 8th, 2000
American 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) Performed by Rica Matsumoto
Ending Theme ("Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI")	"The Day a Rainbow Was Born" (虹がうまれた日) Performed by Kumiko Mori
Opening Theme ("Pichu and Pikachu")	"Pichu Pika ♪ Swing" (ピチュピカ♪スイング) Performed by Neo★Pockets
Ending Theme ("Pichu and Pikachu")	"Friend Anniversary" (ともだち記念日) Performed by Noriko Sakai and Naoto Takenaka

Spoiler-Free Synopsis ("Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI")

While on their journey, Satoshi and his friends are heading to the nearest town with a Pokémon Center to let their battle-weary Pokémon 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 Pokémon 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 Pokémon 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 Pokémon adventure of love and courage!

Spoiler-Free Synopsis ("Pichu and Pikachu")

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 Pokémon 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?

Characters

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Promotions for the Movie

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Translations

Pocket Monsters The Movie "Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI" & "Pichu and Pikachu" Movie Pamphlet The pamphlet that went on sale in Japanese movie theaters during the film's theatrical run includes comments from film's producer Tsunekazu Ishihara, film director Kunihiko Yuyama, and the film's special guest voice actors. Click on the image above to read translations of those comments.

Behind the Scenes

The first idea the film's writer Takeshi Shudo 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 Pokémon 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. You can read more about this version of the film and why it was rejected here.
This was the final film to be written by Takeshi Shudo, though in reality he only wrote the first draft due to illness. Hideki Sonoda was brought in to help finish the story, making this one of the few films 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 Noriko Sakai. More information about this scandal can be found here.

Home Video Releases

Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI and Pichu and Pikachu have seen a number of home releases between the two of them.

Detailed information about each home release will be available shortly.

Soundtrack Releases

A number of CDs were released specifically for this movie.

Detailed information about each home release will be available shortly.

Pre-Order Bonuses

Fans who purchased a pre-order ticket also received a poster featuring all (at the time) 251 Pokémon.

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 "Pokémon Card NEO" card.

No event Pokémon were distributed to the Pocket Monsters video games as promotion for this film.

The Manga Adaptation

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.

Notes / Other Trivia

Movie Title
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 General Plot

The idea of the Unknown causing everything to turn into crystal comes from J.G. Ballard novel "The Crystal World (結 晶世界)." The two stories are completely different but screenplay author Takeshi Shudo liked the scenery depicted in the novel and wanted to see it brought to the big screen.

The mansion
The mansion where Mii lives was based on the Cologne Cathedral in Germany (ミーの住む屋敷には、ドイツのケルンにある大聖堂を意識した), 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.

Each room in the mansion 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.

Entei
When Mr. Shudo heard that Naoto Takenaka had been cast as Entei he was ecstatic. Twenty years earlier Mr. Shudo 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. Shudo.

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 Naoto Takenaka in mind.

Mii
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. Akiko Yajima performs the voice for all three versions of Mii.

Unknown
According to the "Data Book" pamphlet included in the DVD box set Pikachu the Movie Box 1998 - 2006, all 26 Unknown in the film have their own unique cries.

Pichu and Pikachu
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 Pokémon pulling on ropes for one reason or another.

Sources:

How to Craft a Story: Takeshi Shudo, How Anyone Can Become a Screenplay Writer No. 212:
"The Easy Parts of the Plot to Figure Out "Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI""

Main Staff ("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)
"Pocket Monsters" created by 原案	Satoshi Tajiri (田尻　智)
Superviser スーパーバイザー	Tsunekazu Ishihara (石原恒 和)
Animation Supervisor アニメーション監修	Youichi Kotabe (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	Masakazu Kubo (久保 雅一) Takashi Kawaguchi (川口孝司)
Original Character Design キャラクター原 案	Ken Sugimori (杉森建) Motofumi Fujiwara (藤原基史) Shigeki Morimoto (森本茂樹) Hironobu Yoshida (吉田宏信) Toshi Ohta (太田　敏) Atsuko Nishida (西田敦子) Muneo Saito (斉藤むねお) Reina Yoshikawa (吉川玲奈)
Screenplay 脚本	Takeshi Shudo (首藤剛志) Hideki Sonoda (園田英樹)
Production 演出	Masamitsu Hidaka (日高政光) Norihiko Sutou (須藤典彦)
Character Design キャラクターデザイン	Sayuri Ichi'ishi (一石小百合) Norihiro Matsubara (松原徳弘) Hisashi Kagawa (香川　久)
Chief Animator 総作画監督	Hisashi Kagawa (香川　久)
Art Director 美術監督	Katsuyoshi Kanemura (金村勝義)
Director of Photography 撮影監督	Hisao Shirai (白井久男)
Editing 編集	Toshio Henmi (辺見俊夫)
Sound Director 音響監督	Masafumi Mima (三間雅文)
Music 音楽	Shinji Miyazaki (宮崎慎二)
Opening Theme Song オープニングテーマソング	Hirokazu Tanaka (たなかひろかず)
Animation Producer アニメーションプロデューサー	Toshisato Okuno (奥野敏聡) Shuukichi Kanda (神田修吉)
Animation Production アニメーション制作	OLM
Producers プロデューサー	Chouji Yoshikawa (吉川兆二) Yukako Matsusako (松迫由香子) Takemoto Mori (盛　武源)
Production 制作	Shougakukan Production (小学館プロダクション)
Director 監督	Kunihiko Yuyama (湯山邦彦)

Voice Cast ("Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI")

Voice Cast
Satoshi	Rica Matsumoto 松本梨香
Pikachu	Ikue Ohtani 大谷育江
Dr. Ookido	Unshou Ishizuka 石塚運昇
Kasumi	Mayumi Iizuka 飯塚雅弓
Takeshi	Yuuji Ueda 上田祐司
Kenji	Tomokazu Seki 関智一
Mii	Akiko Yajima 矢島晶子
Musashi	Megumi Hayashibara 林原めぐみ
Kojirou	Shin'ichirou Miki 三木眞一郎
Nyarth	Inuko Inuyama 犬山犬子
Mama	Masami Toyoshima 豊島まさみ
Joy	Ayako Shiraishi 白石文子
Junsar	Chinami Nishimura 西村ちなみ
Togepy	Satomi Ko'orogi こおろぎさとみ
Chicorita	Mika Kanai かないみか
Rokon	Rikako Aikawa 愛河里花子
Eipam	Etsuko Kozakura 小桜エツ子
Mantain	Katsuyuki Konishi 小西克幸
Reporter	Youko Soumi 沢海陽子
Cameraman	Kouichi Sakaguchi 坂口候一

Special Guest Voices
Entei	Naoto Takenaka 竹中直人
John	Hirohide Yakumaru 薬丸裕英
Rin	Ai Kato 加藤あい
David	Kou'ichi Yamadera 山寺宏一

Voice Cast ("Pichu and Pikachu")

Voice Cast
Pikachu	Ikue Ohtani 大谷育江
Pichu (older brother)	Yumi Touma 冬馬由美
Pichu (younger brother)	Satomi Ko'orogi こおろぎさとみ
Nyarth	Inuko Inuyama 犬山犬子
Chicorita	Mika Kanai かないみか
Fushigidane	Megumi Hayashibara 林原めぐみ
Koduck	Rikako Aikawa 愛河里花子
Iwark	Unshou Ishizuka 石塚運昇
Hitodeman	Shin'ichirou Miki 三木眞一郎
Waninoko	Chinami Nishimura 西村ちなみ
Delvil	Naoki Tatsuta 龍田直樹
Kapoerer	Daiki Nakamura 中村大樹
Kabigon	Mitsuru Ogata 小形　満
Buby	Yukiji ゆきじ
Kimawari	Etsuko Kozakura 小桜エツ子
Tsubotsubo	Kouichi Sakaguchi 坂口候一
Koratta	Katsuyuki Konishi 小西克幸
Nazonokusa	Kaori Tsuji 辻　香織
Ootachi	Ryouka Yuzuki 柚木涼香
Satoshi	Rica Matsumoto 松本梨香
Kasumi	Mayumi Iizuka 飯塚雅弓
Takeshi	Yuuji Ueda 上田祐司

Special Guest Voices
Narrator	Noriko Sakai 酒井法子

Japanese Box Office Performance

Overview
While Pocket Monsters The Movie "Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI" & "Pichu and Pikachu" ended up making less than its predecessor it still managed to be the highest grossing Japanese film of the year 2000 (and third highest grossing film overall).

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Box Office Revenue:  4.85 billion yen
Total Number of Viewers: 4.5 million
Total Number of Days in Theaters:  63 Days

Box Office Performance At a Glance
Week	Rank	Earnings To Date	Viewer- ship	Competition
Week One (July 8th - July 9th, 2000)
1	2	Unknown	Unknown	Pocket Monsters The Movie "Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI" & "Pichu and Pikachu" claimed the number two spot in its opening weekend. The Japanese debut of the Tom Cruise film Mission: Impossible 2 grabbed the Number One spot, while the double feature "Digimon Adventure 02" & "Magical DoReMi #" rounded out the Top Three. The only other newcomer for the week was the Japanese debut of the Ben Affleck/Matt Damon 1999 film Dogma, which debuted at Number Seven.
Week Two (July 15th - July 16th, 2000)
2	3	Unknown	Unknown	The third Pocket Monsters movie fell to the Number 3 spot in its second week in theaters. The film that knocked Pocket Monsters out of its Number Two spot was the Japanese release of the 1999 film Stuart Little. Other newcomers this week include Juvenile, a Japanese film that also served as Takashi Yamazaki's directorial debut; and Card Captor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card, a movie that acts as the finale to the original 1990s Card Captor Sakura TV series.
Week Three (July 22nd - July 23rd, 2000)
3	4	Unknown	Unknown	The only newcomer this week is The Boy Who Saw the Wind, a Japanese animated film adaptation of the C. W. Nicol novel of the same name. The rest of the Top Ten was more or less a shuffling of the films that had been there the week before.
Week Four (July 29th - July 30th, 2000)
4	3	Unknown	Unknown	In its fourth week in theaters the film Mission: Impossible 2 was finally dethroned from its Number One spot by newcomer The Perfect Storm. Eiga.com notes how, besides Pokémon, pretty much all the kids movies have left the top spots.
Week Five (August 5th - August 6th, 2000)
5	6	Unknown	Unknown	The Top Three saw Mission: Impossible 2 and The Perfect Storm swap places while the Japanese release of the 1999 Matt Damon film The Talented Mr. Ripley debuted at Number Three.
Week Six (August 12th - August 13th, 2000)
6	7	Unknown	Unknown	The Top Two remained the same, with Mission: Impossible 2 and The Perfect Storm staying put another week. At this point Mission: Impossible 2 is the only other film in the Top Ten to have been in theaters as long as Pocket Monsters, proving that even though it is slipping the third Pocket Monsters movie is still going strong. The Top Three is rounded out by Taxi 2, a French action comedy.
Week Seven (August 19th - August 20th, 2000)
7	8	Unknown	Unknown	The only newcomer this week is White Out, a Japanese film about a group of terrorists taking over a dam. The movie managed to be the first Japanese film released in Japan in 2000 to debut at Number One.
Week Eight (August 26th - August 27th, 2000)
8	9	Unknown	Unknown	The Top Ten remained unusually steady this weekend, with the first seven films keeping the exact same spot they occupied the previous week. The only newcomer is The Future Diary On The Film, a documentary that's a spin-off of a similar segment on the TV variety show Unnan no Honto ko! As a result the Number Eight and Number Nine films from the previous week slid down accordingly.
Week Nine (September 2nd - September 3rd, 2000)
9	11 (or lower)	Unknown	Unknown	The debuts of the parody film Scary Movie and the comedy drama Wonder Boys pushed last week's Number 9 and Number 10 movies -- Pocket Monsters The Movie "Lord of the "Unknown" Tower ENTEI" & "Pichu and Pikachu" and Sakuya: Slayer of Demons -- out of the Top Ten.