Media releases Ĭardcaptor Sakura: The Movie was released on VHS, LD and DVD in Japan by Bandai Visual on February 25, 2000. The music was produced by Takayuki Negishi, with Masafumi Mima as the sound director. The art director for the film was Katsufumi Hariu, and there were three animation directors: Hitoshi Ueda, Kumiko Takahashi and Kunihiko Sakurai.
The film, animated by Madhouse and produced by Bandai Visual, was directed by Morio Asaka, written by Nanase Ohkawa of Clamp, and featured character design by Kumiko Takahashi, who based the designs on Clamp's original illustrations.
The same production staff that produced the anime television series adaptation of Cardcaptor Sakura also produced Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie. While Toya and Yukito have no memory of what happened, Sakura tells Tomoyo and Kero they may have to visit Hong Kong again in the future. Madoushi dissolves into water, passing on, but releases Sakura's friends. Sakura uses the Arrow Card to escape and she confronts Madoushi, sympathizing with the sorceress and confirms Clow is dead. When Sakura tells her of Clow's passing, Madoushi angrily tries to drown Sakura by trapping her in a flooded skyscraper with her clothes. Sakura and Kero follow, but Madoushi captures Sakura and holds her prisoner. Sakura confronts Madoushi who uses the magic of Sakura's friends to escape her prison but is shocked by Hong Kong's appearance. Going to the well, Sakura encounters Yelan who breaks the shield surrounding the well to allow Sakura and Kero to enter. Sakura realizes the well appeared on the book cover and it is another entrance to Madoushi's prison. But she used them for evil and was imprisoned in another dimension by Clow) but is likely unaware she is a spirit. Kero realizes he knows Madoushi, a fortune teller who was unintentionally put out of business by Clow when his predictions turned out to be more accurate than hers, then she challenged him to one fight after another and her hatred bound her to another dimension, (In the dub, Clow fell in love with her and taught her magic. Sakura escapes with Kero and Tomoyo back to the antiques store, but find the book has vanished. Syaoran distracts Madoushi so Sakura can rescue Tomoyo but is captured as well. Sakura discovers that her friends, except for Syaoran, have been taken prisoner, and Madoushi demands Clow comes in exchange for their freedom. The woman, actually a sorceress referred to as Madoushi (named "Su Yung" in the English dub), attacks Sakura in rage, believing she had summoned Clow Reed, creator of the Clow Cards. The birds are revealed to be her clothes. Sakura is hypnotised again and opens the book before her friends, flooding the shop and transporting the group to another dimension where the woman dwells. They chase them down to an antiques store, where they come across an old book that has a picture of the woman on the cover. Sakura spots the birds again and pursues them with Kero. around Hong Kong should something happen. The next day, Syaoran and Meiling are forced to accompany Sakura and co. Yelan takes Sakura outside and warns her that the woman is extremely powerful and is deliberately contacting Sakura. Staying for the night, Sakura experiences the dream again where the woman attacks her. Reuniting with the others including Meiling, Sakura is taken to the Li family estate where she meets Syaoran's four eccentric older sisters and his mother, Yelan, a powerful sorceress who senses Sakura is in danger. As Sakura is drawn towards the well, Syaoran appears and scares the birds away. During a tour of the Yuen Po Street Bird Garden (also referred to as "Bird Street"), Sakura spots the two birds and pursues them across the city, finding an old water well where the clothes emerge and hypnotize her. The group tour the city but Sakura experiences the dream again which this time features two malevolent birds and a mysterious woman sports the floating clothes. Sakura goes with Tomoyo, Kero, her big brother Toya and his best friend Yukito Tsukishiro, who Sakura has a crush on. As Sakura reaches for a lottery ball, one magically flies into her hand, the winning ball for the vacation. After school ends for spring break, Sakura and Tomoyo visit the "Twin Bells" shop where Sakura participates in a lottery to win a vacation to Hong Kong. That night, Sakura experiences a strange dream where two pieces of cloth pull her underwater. Sakura Kinomoto, Cardcaptor of the Clow Cards, successfully seals the Arrow Card with help from her friends Syaoran Li, Kero, Tomoyo Daidoji, and Meiling Li.