Screenplay: Hideki Sonoda

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Hideki Sonoda. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Captain Tsubasa (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroyoshi Mitsunobu

Plot Captain Tsubasa is a popular manga, anime, and video game series originally created in Japan by Yoichi Takahashi in 1981. Captain Tsubasa is based on the sport of football (soccer)....

6.5

52K votes

6.5

52K votes

Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai

2007 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Kunihiko Yuyama

Plot In the prologue, a scientist named Tonio is reading a diary which belonged to a famous architect named Godey, his great-grandfather, indicating that two Pokémon between their dimension are fighting,...

5.6

520 votes

5.6

520 votes

Pokemon Movie 8: Lucario and The Mystery of Mew

2005 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Kunihiko Yuyama

Plot In the town of Lohta, a festival is thrown praising "Aaron the Wave Leader Hero" who, according to the legend passed down through the town's generations, stopped a war centuries...

5.5

704 votes

5.5

704 votes

The Legend of Hikari (TV Series)

1986 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Tomomi Mochizuki · Tetsuya Kobayashi · Fumiko Ishii · Chisato Motegi

Plot TV series. 19 episodes. The story is about Hikari Kamijou, a fifteen-year-old junior-high-school girl who develops a passion for the sport of rhythmic gymnastics ever since she saw her idol,...

5.4

61 votes

5.4

61 votes

Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life

2009 · Movie · min. · Japan

Direction Kunihiko Yuyama

Plot Thousands of years in the past, the legendary Alpha Pokémon Arceus came to Earth to retrieve the "Jewel of Life" that it had loaned to a man named Damos. Damos...

5.3

490 votes

5.3

490 votes

Pokémon 11: Giratina and the Sky Warrior

2008 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Kunihiko Yuyama

Plot The Reverse World is a world that accepts pollution from the Real World in the form of poison so that the environmental balance of the Real World isn't destroyed by...

5.2

544 votes

5.2

544 votes

Pokémon Heroes

2002 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan

Direction Kunihiko Yuyama

Plot Ash, Pikachu and the rest of the Pokemon gang try and stop a pair of thieves hiding out in the canals and alleyways of Alto Mare, the water capital of...

5.2

773 votes

5.2

773 votes

Magical Emi, the Magic Star (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Ryo Tachiba · Noriyasu Kogawa · Tomomi Mochizuki · Fumihiko Takayama

Plot TV Series. 38 episodes, 2 OVAs. Mai is a little girl who idolizes Emily Howell, a famous magician. She is given a magic bracelet to transform into Magical Emi when...

5.2

79 votes

5.2

79 votes

Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea

2006 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Kunihiko Yuyama

Plot Our heroes must protect the Prince of the Sea, Manaphy, from the evil pirate Phantom, and return the young Pokémon to the Sea Temple with the help of the the...

5.1

427 votes

5.1

427 votes

Pokémon (TV Series)

1997 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Kunihiko Yuyama · Masamitsu Hidaka

Plot A young boy named Ash Ketchum embarks on a journey to become a "Pokemon Master" with his first Pokemon, Pikachu. Joining him on his travels are Brock, a girl-obsessed Rock...

5.1

29K votes

5.1

29K votes

Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions

2010 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Kunihiko Yuyama

Plot Celebi sees Raikou, Entei, and Suicune fighting in the future in an attempt to stop this from happening, Celebi then travels to the past. Ash encounters a shadowy figure that...

5.1

359 votes

5.1

359 votes

Flint the Time Detective (TV Series)

1998 · Series · 23 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Hukutomi

Plot The show is centred around the adventures of Flint Hammerhead, the "Time Detective", a boy from the prehistoric era who was resurrected from a fossil and became a Time Detective,...

5.0

422 votes

5.0

422 votes

Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys

2004 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan

Direction Kunihiko Yuyama

Plot Ash and his friends travel to LaRousse, where they meet a boy named Tooi who is afraid of Pokemon due to an incident that happened four years earlier. Meanwhile, Deoxys,...

5.0

403 votes

5.0

403 votes

Pokémon 4Ever: Celebi - Voice of the Forest

2001 · Movie · 75 min. · Japan

Direction Kunihiko Yuyama

Plot In this film, we meet the new Pokémon, Celebi, who has the power to travel through time. Vicious, the future descendant of James and Jessie of Team Rocket, travels back...

4.9

988 votes

4.9

988 votes

Attacker You! (TV Series)

1984 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuyuki Okasako · Masari Sasahiro · Yasuo Ishikawa

Plot TV Series (1984-1985). 58 episodes. Attacker You! is the story of ambitious and energetic thirteen year-old junior high schoolgirl You Hazuki, who moves to Tokyo from the Japanese countryside to...

4.9

962 votes

4.9

962 votes

Pokémon the First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back

1998 · Movie · 75 min. · Japan

Direction Kunihiko Yuyama

Plot Scientists genetically create a new Pokémon, Mewtwo, but the results are horrific and disastrous.

4.8

9K votes

4.8

9K votes

Pokémon: Jirachi - Wish Maker

2003 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan

Direction Kunihiko Yuyama

Plot Ash, Pikachu and friends (minus Misty) were visiting a festival celebrating the appearance of a comet when they stumble upon a mysterious rock-like crystal...

4.8

403 votes

4.8

403 votes

Love City

1986 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

Direction Koichi Mashimo

Plot It's sometime in the future and the story starts off with Kei and Ai running for their lives. Ai is a little girl who holds a terrible secret which could...

4.7

31 votes

4.7

31 votes

Pokémon 14: Victini and the Dark Hero: Reshiram

2011 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

Direction Kunihiko Yuyama

Plot Pokémon The Movie: White—Victini and Zekrom and Pokémon The Movie: Black—Victini and Reshiram referred to collectively as (The First Movie Theatrical Version - Pocket Monsters Best Wishes!: The First Movie),...

4.6

204 votes

4.6

204 votes

Pokémon 14: Victini and the Dark Hero, Zekrom

2011 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

Direction Kunihiko Yuyama

Plot Pokémon The Movie: White—Victini and Zekrom and Pokémon The Movie: Black—Victini and Reshiram referred to collectively as (The First Movie Theatrical Version - Pocket Monsters Best Wishes!: The First Movie),...

4.5

209 votes

4.5

209 votes