Doraemon the Movie 2017: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi | |
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Japanese | ドラえもん のび太の南極カチコチ大冒険 |
Hepburn | Doraemon Nobita no Nankyoku kachikōchi dai bōken |
Literally | Doraemon: Nobita and the Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi |
Directed by | Atsushi Takahashi |
Written by | Fujiko Fujio |
Screenplay by | Atsushi Takahashi |
Based on | Doraemon by Fujiko Fujio |
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Music by | Kan Sawada |
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Distributed by | Toho |
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101 Minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | ¥1.33 billion (US$11.6 million) |
Doraemon the Movie 2017: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi (ドラえもん のび太の南極カチコチ大冒険 Doraemon Nobita no Nankyoku kachikochi dai bōken?) is a Japanese animated science-fiction film. It is the 37th movie in Doraemon movie series. It is directed and written by Atsushi Takahashi. Takahashi was an assistant director on Hayao Miyazaki's Academy Award-winning Spirited Away. It was released on March 4, 2017 in Japan. A video game based on the film for the Nintendo 3DS was released in Japan on March 2, 2017.
Unable to endure the midsummer heat, Doraemon transports Nobita and his friends to a huge iceberg floating in the South Pacific. While creating an amusement parks with the secret tool “Ice-working Iron” the group finds a mysterious golden ring in the ice. Upon closer examination, they determine that the ring was buried in Antarctica 100,000 years ago… before people could have lived there!
Doraemon and friends head to Antarctica looking for the owner of the ring and come across the ruins of a huge city buried in the ice. Using Doraemon’s Time Belt, the group travels back 100,000 years ago and meets the young girl Kara who is connected to the mysterious ring. But now the group must fight for survival as Doraemon faces the crisis of the entire Earth freezing!
Debuting on 371 screens with Toho distributing, Doraemon the Movie 2017: Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi earned $6.1 million on 592,036 admissions in its first weekend and ranked 1 on Japanese box office. Doraemon's 37th film made highest second weekend gross and highest total after second weekend in this franchise.
Here is a table which shows the box office of this movie of all the weekends in Japan: