Japanese Movie Promos Card List
Two Pokémon films came with a card, and both giveaways are here. Ancient Mew came with the pamphlet for Mirage Pokémon: Lugia's Explosive Birth in July 1999 — a card whose text is printed in an invented rune alphabet, tracked here in its three printings (standard, the second print, and the “Nintedo” misprint). The year after, Emperor of the Crystal Tower: Entei handed out a pair: Hitmontop and Igglybuff. None was sold in a shop, and none prints a collector number, so a movie card is identified by its artwork and printing rather than by a number. This page lists every card with its printings priced separately — 5 printing records — and every one opens its own record with the prices, the printing notes and where to buy.
Card List
Japanese Movie Promos At a Glance
How many cards are in the Japanese Movie Promos?
The set holds 3 cards, released July 17, 1999. This site tracks 5 printings of them (II 1 · Nintedo Error 1 · Standard 3), each with its own record and price.
What printings does it have?
Cinema giveaways, so there is no 1st Edition and no Unlimited run. Ancient Mew has three tracked printings — standard, second print (II) and the Nintedo copyright misprint — each with its own page and its own price; the 2019 reprint is outside this site's window and is not included. Hitmontop and Igglybuff have one printing each. Sources: Bulbapedia's unnumbered-promo table; price-source product naming.
What is the most valuable card in the set?
Ancient Mew [Nintedo Error] at $436 raw, about $6,316 in PSA 10. One raw copy of every printing here totals $809.
How do these cards relate to the English printing?
No English version of these cards exists. The English Ancient Mew was a Wizards Black Star promo documented at <a href="/sets/wizards-black-star-promos/">Wizards Black Star Promos</a>, so these are the only printings of these cards that were ever made. They are one of just two Japanese releases of the era with no English counterpart at all.
How do I tell a Japanese Movie Promos card apart from the English printing?
Turn it over, which is the quickest tell there is: this set predates July 2001, when Japanese cards carried the Pocket Monsters Card Game back — a design no English card ever had, against the blue Pokémon back. The back changed once, with Pokémon VS in July 2001, so the back alone dates a card to this era.
Either way, the symbol beside the number is the Japanese set's own, not the English set's.
Prices are PriceCharting sold comps read 2026-11-07 and are per printing. This set is not in TCGdex, and no structured fact source covers it, so rarity, type and illustrator are omitted rather than guessed. One raw copy of every printing on this page totals $809.