History Anime / CardCaptorSakuraTheMovie

* PocketDimension: The prison that Clow Redd sealed Madoushi in is an eerie underground, watery stone temple-like structure surrounded by a replica of the contemporary Bird Street.

* Qipao: Sakura and Tomoyo are given a qipao each to wear in the Li house after Sakura's clothes get wet in the well where Syaoran finds her. While Sakura's is to accommodate her and show hospitality, Meiling likely let Tomoyo try one on out of consideration.

* ChineseDress: Sakura and Tomoyo are given a qipao each to wear in the Li house after Sakura's clothes get wet in the well where Syaoran finds her. While Sakura's is to accommodate her and show hospitality, Meiling likely let Tomoyo try one on out of consideration.

* ChineseDress: Sakura and Tomoyo get to wear some in the Li house.

The film was a success for the franchise, winning the Kobe Award for Best Theatrical Animated Film in 1999. As was set between seasons 1 and 2 of the anime series Nelvana picked it up to be dubbed along with the rest of the series, with changes to dialogue and character names to fit the ''Cardcaptors'' version, retitling it ''Cardcaptors: The Movie'', though all the scenes remained intact except for the opening titles. The second movie, ''Anime/CardCaptorSakuraMovie2TheSealedCard'' was not dubbed by Nelvana, but rather by Ocean who gave it an accurate translation with names, character relationships and references to its Japanese origins intact.

* {{Kishotenketsu}}: The first act (''Ki'') sees Sakura and Tomoyo winning the vacation to Hong Kong, while the second (''sho'') brings them to the Li household where Sakura's dreams reach their peak and Yelan Li's uses her magic to determine [[spoiler:that Sakura has actually been drawn to Hong Kong by an evil force. The third (''ten'') sees The Enchantress activate her plan and trap Toya, Yukito, Syaoran and Meiling in her dimension. Finally the conclusion (''ketsu'') sees Sakura rescue her friends and do battle against The Enchantress and defeat her by convincing her that Clow Reed has passed on and her spirit is able to move on.]]

** Played straight with Syaoran and Meiling who appear in the market while seemingly unaccompanied, though both have been living in Japan with only Wei Wang to watch them.

The film was a success for the franchise, winning the Kobe Award for Best Theatrical Animated Film in 1999. As was set between seasons 1 and 2 of the anime series Nelvana picked it up to be dubbed along with the rest of the series, with changes to dialogue and character names to fit ''Cardcaptors'' retitling it ''Cardcaptors: The Movie'', though all the scenes remained intact except for the opening titles. The second movie, ''Anime/CardCaptorSakuraMovie2TheSealedCard'' was not dubbed by Nelvana, but rather by Ocean who gave it an accurate translation with names, character relationships and references to its Japanese origins intact.

The film was a success for the franchise, winning the Kobe Award for Best Theatrical Animated Film in 1999. As was set between seasons 1 and 2 of the anime series Nelvana picked it up to be dubbed along with the rest of the series, with changes to dialogue and character names to fit ''Cardcaptors'' retitling it ''Cardcaptors: The Movie'', though all the scenes remained intact except for the opening titles. The second movie was not dubbed by Nelvana, but rather by Ocean who gave it an accurate translation with names, character relationships and references to its Japanese origins intact.

The film was a success for the franchise, winning of the Kobe Award for Best Theatrical Animated Film in 1999. It was dubbed by Nelvana with changes to dialogue and character names to fit with their version of the anime series, ''Cardcaptors'' retitled it ''Cardcaptors: The Movie'', though all the scenes remained intact except for the opening titles.

* HighAltitudeBattle: [[spoiler: Sakura and Modoushi's final battle across the Hong Kong skyline.]]

Winner of the Kobe Award for Best Theatrical Animated Film in 1999.

* FloatingInABubble: How Madoushi traps [[spoiler:Toya, Yukito, Meiling, Tomoyo (who is saved by Sakura and Syaoran) and eventually Syaoran]].

While on Spring vacation Sakura Kinomoto unexpectedly wins a trip for four to Hong Kong in a competition which includes her best friend Tomayo Daidouji and accompanied by her older brother Toya and his best friend Yukito. Once there however, Sakura senses a supernatural presence and is troubled by dreams about a mysterious woman.

* FreeRangeChildren: Subverted. While Sakura and Tomoyo can go about much of Tomoeda by themselves, Toya and Yukito accompany them to Hong Kong when Fujitaka cannot go, depsite being technically minors themselves, as they are in a foreign country.

* RuleOfThree: Sakura dreams about The Enchantress three times. [[spoiler:/ By the third time she is wounded for real and it becoems apparent somethign supernatural is going on.]]
* VacationEpisode: While the Kinomoto family did go on a vacation to the countryside in episode 16 this is notably the only time Sakura and Tomoyo are outside Japan.

* EducationMama: Yelan Li is suggested to be one.

* TheBGrade: While we are treated to seeing Syaoran's exact grades he seems relived receiving his report card, however he is still anxious about showing it to his mother. Its suggested he did okay, but not extraordinary.

* TheBGrade: While we are treated to seeing Syaoran's exact grades he seems relived receiving his report card, however he is still anxious about showing it to his mother.