Celebrating 30 Years of Pokémon, The Pokémon Short Movie Festival ~ Pocket Monsters The Movie Short Movie Masterpiece Selection ~ ポケモン30周年記念 ポケモン短編まつり ～劇場版ポケットモンスター短編傑作選

Overview

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pocket Monsters the Jimbocho Theater in Jimbocho, Tokyo is hosting special showings of three of the popular short films from the "Pocket Monsters The Movie" series. All three films are presented on film, just as they were when they first debuted in theaters.

The Jimbocho Theater had previously screened Pocket Monsters The Movie "Mewtwo Strikes Back!" as part of "I Wanna See it on the Big Screen Again! Movies from Summer Vacations Past" back in 2021..

The films

The following three films are being screened together as a single 90 minute program.

	"Pikachu's Summer Vacation" (1998, 22 minutes) Originally shown alongside Pocket Monsters The Movie "Mewtwo Strikes Back!" Welcome to Pokémon Square, a place where Pokémon come to play, and Pikachu and its friends have come here to spend their summer vacation. Just as everyone is finally able to get Togepy to sleep, four Pokémon walk by and wake it up by laughing loudly! The four Pokémon - Raichu, Karakara, Bulu, and Maril - begin to fight with Pikachu and the others when they start yelling at them! A race between Zenigame and Maril, Pikachu and Raichu running side by side...during all this commotion, Lizardon's head gets stuck in a pipe! What will everyone do!? This music fantasy shows off the friendship between Pikachu and its friends!
	"The Glittering Starlit Camp" (2002, 24 minutes) Originally shown alongside Pocket Monsters The Movie "Latias and Latios, The Guardian Deities of the Water Capital." The world becomes a bigger place when you look at it from the eyes of Pokémon! In this short movie filled with fun music and exciting narration the super popular Pichu Brothers are back! While riding a locomotive on their way back from an important errand they carelessly end up falling into a nearby forest! Will they be able to make it back home safe and sound?
	"Pikachu and Its Eevee Friends" (2013, 24 minutes) Originally shown alongside Pocket Monsters The Movie Best Wishes! "The Extreme Speed Genesect and the Awakening of Mewtwo." One summer night, Pikachu, Kibago, Yanapp, and Mijumaru meet a Nymphia in a flower garden and are invited to come with it the "Eevee House" deep in the forest.  When they arrive, they find out that Eevee and its friends - the doting Thunders, the shy Booster, Showers, Eifee, Blacky, Leafia, and Glacia - all live there together.  Additionally, it seems that Nyarth and Sonansu work there as good looking housekeepers!? An exciting sleepover is about to begin!

Release / General Information

Festival Dates	May 2nd, 2026 ~ May 8th, 2026
Showtimes	Saturday, May 2nd 11:00 AM * Sunday, May 3rd 5:45 PM Monday, May 4th 11:00 AM * Tuesday, May 5th 5:45 PM Wednesday, May 6th 11:00 AM Thursday, May 7th 4:30 PM Friday, May 8th 7:15 PM
Ticket Prices	Adults:  2,000 yen Children: 1,500 yen (Ages 3 to elementary school age) Tickets are only sold by pre-order; same-day tickets will not be made available.

Notes

All three short films are preceded by the video game commercials that would have aired during their original screenings.

• Pikachu's Summer Vacation: Pokémon Stadium (Nintendo 64)
• The Glittering Starlit Camp:  Pocket Monsters Ruby & Sapphire. This commercial includes images of the pre-release version of Zigzaguma.
• Pikachu and Its Eevee Friends:  Genesect distribution short, Pocket Monsters XY
  

The version of Pikachu's Summer Vacation shown is the original film version that features Rougela in her original design.

Japanese Box Office Performance

Gross-to-date:  N/A
Total Number of Days in Theaters:  7

Box office figures for this are unavailable as this movie festival is limited to a single theater in Tokyo. However, based on the information we have about pre-order tickets we can guess it was a success.