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Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai

Name: Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai
Director: Kunihiko Yuyama
Genre: Family, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Action
Released: 2007
Rating: 7
Cast: Rica Matsumoto, Ikue Otani, Yuji Ueda, Megumi Toyoguchi, Megumi Hayashibara

Ash and friends (this time accompanied by newcomer Dawn) arrive at an idyllic village on their way to their next Pokemon contest, where chaos will soon erupt with the prophecy of two Pokemon Gods (Dialga and Palkia) and the arrival of a mysterious, seemingly deadly Pokemon named Darkrai, which has the power to distort space and time.

2007 · Directed by Kunihiko Yuyama · 95 min · Family · Adventure · Animation · Fantasy · Action · Science Fiction · 8 frames

Tagline

Somewhere between time & space... a legend is born.

Crew

Screenplay: Hideki Sonoda
Cinematography: Takaya Mizutani
Edited by: Toshio Henmi
Music: Shinji Miyazaki
Produced by: Choji Yoshikawa, Junya Okamoto, Takemoto Mori, Shukichi Kanda

Cast

Rica Matsumoto as Satoshi (voice)
Ikue Otani as Pikachu (voice)
Yuji Ueda as Takeshi (voice)
Megumi Toyoguchi as Hikari (voice)
Megumi Hayashibara as Musashi (voice)
Ryuji Akiyama as Dai (voice)
Kiyotaka Furushima as Buizel (voice)
Inuko Inuyama as Nyarth (voice)
Koji Ishizaka as Darkrai (voice)
Unsho Ishizuka as Narrator (voice)

Production

Country: Japan
Language: English, Japanese
Studios: Pikachu Project, TV Tokyo, The Pokémon Company, Shogakukan
Box office: $42,496,749
Themes: nightmare, pocket monsters, contest, misunderstanding, battle, based on video game, interdimensional beings, anime

More by Kunihiko Yuyama

Pokémon: The First Movie — 1998
Pokémon 3: The Movie — 2000
Pokémon the Movie 2000 — 1999
Pokémon 4Ever — 2001
Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction — 2014
Pokémon Heroes — 2002
Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys — 2004
Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew — 2005
Pokémon: Jirachi Wish Maker — 2003
Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel — 2016
Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! — 2017
Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior — 2008

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