Pokémon is a media franchise developed by video clip game developer Satoshi Tajiri that fixates fictional animals called Pokémon. As of 2020, there have actually been 23 computer animated films and also one real-time action film. The first nineteen animated films are based on the anime television collection of the same name, with the original movie being remade right into the 22nd. The 20th, 21st and also 23rd animated movies are embeded in an alternating connection to the anime. The films are generated by the animation studios OLM, Manufacturing I.G, Xebec, and Wit Workshop, as well as distributed in Japan by Toho, with different studios dispersing the movies in North America. They were directed by Kunihiko Yuyama and Tetsuo Yajima, and created by Takeshi Shudo, Hideki Sonoda, Atsuhiro Tomioka, Shōji Yonemura, Eiji Umehara, and also Aya Takaha. The initial Pokémon animated movie, Pokémon: The First Movie, was launched in Japan in 1998, which was remade into Mewtwo Strikes Back: Advanc...