Japan Release: 2001
Running Time: 99 minutes

Pokémon: Celebi the Voice of the Forest

劇場版ポケットモンスター　セレビィ　時を超えた遭遇
[Gekijo ban Poketto Monsuta: Serebyi Toki o Koeta Deai]

40 years ago, a boy named Yukinari stumbled upon a Pokémon hunter in the woods. Using Scyther and Houndoom, the hunter was chasing the mythical Pokémon Celebi. Yukinari saves the terrified Celebi, only to have the creature cause a time warp, sending them to the future. In present day, that same hunter, now old, is confronted by a man called Vicious. A member of Team Rocket, Vicious demands to know the location of Celebi. The hunter refuses, angering the elite Team Rocket member. In retaliation, he shows off his dark ball, which he uses to steal and corrupt the hunter's Tyranitar. Commanding the Pokémon, Vicious has him destroy the camp. With fire all around him, the hunter relents and tells him of the forest where he saw Celebi. Meanwhile, Satoshi, Kasumi and Takeshi happen to be traveling to that very same forest. Venturing to the same spot of the time warp, the area begins to glow. Suddenly Celebi and Yukinari appear, unaged and displaced in time...

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Pokémon 4Ever
US Distributor: Miramax (2002) / Time: 75 minutes

Pocket Monsters: Celebi a Timeless Encounter
[Literal translation]

Pokémon 4Ever: Celebi the Voice of the Forest
[French title]

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Background and Trivia

• The first instance of the movie being submitted to the US copyright office came in 2003. However, rather than the movie itself on a videocassette or VHS, a text adaptation was submitted instead. Done by the Pikachu Project, this was submitted on November 16th, 2003 with the registration number TX0006198368. Titles used were The Voice of the Forest and Pokémon 4Ever: The Voice of the Forest. The actual movie itself was not submitted by Shogakukan until November 11th, 2004, with the registration number PA0001265321. At that point in time the only title referenced was Pokémon 4 Ever, with the words not conjoined.
• Was the first Pokémon movie not to be submitted to the US copyright office using the movie's Japanese English title, which was Celebi a Timeless Encounter.
• The American version of the movie features unique footage not found in the Japanese version. One of these is a new sequence, involving Team Rocket trying to grab some fruit.
  
  The other two instances replace segments from the Japanese version. The first is when Satoshi (Ash) asks Okido (Oak) about Suicune and the other is a new ending where Okido is called. In both new segments, it's first hinted at and then made clear that Okido/Oak is Yukinari/Sam. In the Japanese version, this is only hinted at during the end credits.
• When dubbed in English, the characters are given vastly different names. In this version:
  Satoshi is known as Ash Ketchum
  Takeshi is known as Brock
  Haruka is known as May
  Masato is known as Max
  Musashi is known as Jesse
  Kojiro is known as James
  Kenji is known as Tracey
  Yukinari is known as Sam
  Professor Okido is known as Professor Oak
  Miku is known as Diana