Cardcaptor Sakura The Movie: Syaoran's Beginning (1999)

Cardcaptor Sakura The Movie: Syaoran's Beginning (劇場版カードキャプターさくら：小狼の始まり Gekijō-ban kādokyaputā sakura: Ou no hajimari) is a spinoff anime film and a prequel to the anime television series adaptation of Clamp's Cardcaptor Sakura. The animation was produced by Madhouse, while it was directed by Morio Asaka and written by Nanase Ōkawa (Clamp's head writer).

Story/Plot
Cardcaptor Sakura The Movie: Syaoran's Beginning is set before the events of Cardcaptor Sakura: Season 1.

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Production
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Soundtrack
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Bonus art
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Box office
In Japan, the film was successful at the box office, Cardcaptor Sakura The Movie: Syaoran's Beginning earned $9,086,738 on its opening day. During its first weekend, it grossed $21,026,578 and went on to generate a total of $40,654,94 since its launch in 2,033 theaters in Japan, averaging to about $10.189 per venue over the three-day span. It also held the record for being the animated feature with the highest opening weekend in October, which would be broken a few weeks later by Toy Story 2. (TBA).

Reviews
Cardcaptor Sakura The Movie: Syaoran's Beginning received generally favorable reviews from both fans and critics. (TBA).

Media releases
Cardcaptor Sakura The Movie: Syaoran's Beginning was released on VHS, LD and DVD in Japan by Bandai Visual on April 20, 2000. The film was re-released on January 20, 2001 on VHS, July 20, 2007 on DVD in a five-disc set with Cardcaptor Sakura The Movie: Sakura's Sidestory, Cardcaptor Sakura The Movie: Meiling's Sidestory, Meiling's Sidestory 2 and Syaoran's Sidestory: Return To Hong Kong, and on February 18, 2010 on DVD.

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Trivia
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 * Cardcaptor Sakura The Movie: Syaoran's Beginning was released in October 18, 1999 two months after the first Cardcaptor Sakura movie's release.
 * In the original Japanese verison, Ghost Thief never talks in the film, in the Cardcaptors dub, Ghost Thief talks and he also speaks more often then the original Japanese verison, and he also narrates over all of his scenes in the form of an inner monologue.
 * The Cardcaptors dub verison of Syaoran's Beginning is the only film got a theatrical release in both the North America and Canada unlike the first Cardcaptor Sakura's first movie's English dub.