Doraemon the Movie 2017: Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi

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Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi (2017) is a Japanese animated science fiction film. It is the 37th Doraemon movie, directed and written by Atsushi Takahashi. The story follows Nobita, Shizuka, Gian, Suneo, Doraemon, and friends as they travel to a giant iceberg in the Southern Ocean. They discover a golden ring frozen in ice that comes from Antarctica 100,000 years ago. To learn more, they use the Anywhere Door to visit Antarctica, meet Carla and Professor Hyakkoi, and encounter two elephants, Mosuke and Yuka-tan. Facing harsh dangers, they journey through time to save themselves and later return home, with Carla’s planet slowly thawing at the end.

Key facts:
- Release: March 4, 2017 (Japan); later releases in other countries, including India on August 14, 2022 (Hungama TV)
- Runtime: 101 minutes
- Budget: $8 million
- Box office: approximately $61.4 million worldwide
- Cast highlights: Wasabi Mizuta, Megumi Ōhara, Yumi Kakazu, Tomokazu Seki
- Home media and games: A Nintendo 3DS game based on the film released in Japan on March 2, 2017

Notes:
- Opened on 371 screens in Japan and led the weekend box office with about $6.1 million
- International grosses include China, Hong Kong, Korea, and Turkey, contributing to the worldwide total