Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice

Pokémon the Movie:
Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice

Japanese Poster
Japanese 劇場版ポケットモンスター ベストウイッシュ キュレムVS聖剣士 ケルディオ
Hepburn Gekijōban Poketto Monsutā Besuto Uisshu Kyuremu tai Seikenshi Kerudio
Literally Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! The Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sacred Swordsman: Keldeo
Directed by Kunihiko Yuyama
Produced by Takemoto Mori
Choji Yoshikawa
Yukio Kawasaki
Junya Okamoto
Koichi Kawase
Written by Hideki Sonoda
Based on Pokémon: Black & White
by Satoshi Tajiri
Ken Sugimori
Junichi Masuda
Starring Rica Matsumoto
Aoi Yūki
Mamoru Miyano
Ikue Ōtani
Narrated by (Japanese)
Unshō Ishizuka
(English)
Ken Gates
Music by Shinji Miyazaki
Production
company
Distributed by Toho
Release dates
  • July 14, 2012 (2012-07-14) (Japan)
Running time
 71 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Box office $46 million[1]

Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice, originally released in Japan as Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! The Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sacred Swordsman: Keldeo (劇場版ポケットモンスター ベストウイッシュ キュレムVS聖剣士 ケルディオ Gekijōban Poketto Monsutā Besuto Uisshu Kyuremu tai Seikenshi Kerudio) is a 2012 Japanese anime film and the 15th Pokémon anime movie released. The movie was released on July 14, 2012 in Japan. The movies features Kyurem, the Boundary Pokémon, as revealed during a preview shown at the end of the last movie Pokémon the Movie: Black—Victini and Reshiram and White—Victini and Zekrom, as well as Cobalion, Terrakion, and Virizion, the titular "Sacred Swordsmen", before the introduction of the new Pokémon Keldeo.[2] The movie also celebrates the 90th anniversary of the Japanese manga publisher Shogakukan, which published many Pokémon related works. The film was first broadcast in English on Cartoon Network in the United States on December 8, 2012. The movie was released on DVD in the U.S. on April 2, 2013 by Viz Media. Universal released the movie on DVD in the UK on September 30, 2013.

Promotion

Kyurem vs. the Sacred Swordsmen: Keldeo was first revealed during the teaser trailer after the end of the previous movies Victini and the Black Hero: Zekrom and Victini and the White Hero: Reshiram (later released internationally as Pokémon the Movie: Black—Victini and Reshiram and White—Victini and Zekrom.) The Japanese show Oha Suta showed a 15-minute trailer of the movie while revealing its tentative title.[3][4] The January issue of CoroCoro Comic also revealed the release date of the film.[5] In the March issue of CoroCoro Comic, the new Pokémon Keldeo, the Colt Pokémon, was introduced and its name was appended to the title of the film.[2]

In the film poster released on February 26, 2012, Kyurem is also shown having two alternate forms.[6] In an episode of Pokémon Smash! shown on the same day, Junichi Masuda revealed these forms alongside the announcement of the Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 games. He later posted to his Twitter account that the Pokémon were called Black Kyurem (ブラックキュレム Burakku Kyuremu) and White Kyurem (ホワイトキュレム Howaito Kyuremu).[7][8] The July 2012 issue of CoroCoro Comic also reveals Keldeo's new form, called the Resolution form, which will play an important part in the movie.[9]

The film poster also reveals that the film will be accompanied by a short titled Meloetta's Sparkling Recital (メロエッタのキラキラリサイタル Meroetta no Kirakira Resaitaru, internationally as Meloetta's Moonlight Serenade), introducing another new Pokémon: Meloetta[6] in both its Aria and Pirouette Forme.

The April issue of CoroCoro Comic reveals both Keldeo and Meloetta as Pokémon to be distributed in theaters. Players who purchase a pre-sale ticket of the movie will able to receive Keldeo in Pokémon Black, White, Black 2, or White 2 between June 23 to August 21, but Meloetta's release has not yet been announced.[10]

Plot

The film follows Keldeo, who wishes to become a member of the Swords of Justice, but before it must learn the move Secret Sword so that it can become part of the group, Keldeo wishes to fight the legendary Pokemon Kyurem, who serves as the final challenge, however the Swords of Justice refuse to let him fight Kyurem until he learns Secret Sword.

Later in the night, while the Swords of Justice are sleeping, Keldeo sneaks out to go to Full Court, when Kyurem comes out of it's chamber and asks what right Keldeo has to challenge it, Keldeo lies to it and claims it is the new the member of the Swords of Justice, Kyurem accepts and the two begin to battle each other. During the one-sided battle, Kyurem breaks Keldeo's horn, causing Keldeo to become nervous and afraid. Virizion, Terrakion, and Cobalion, who had followed Keldeo, try to stop the fight which causes Kyurem to become furious. Kyurem transforms into White-Kyurem and freezes the Swords of Justice. Keldeo runs away in panic, while Kyurem starts to chase after Keldeo, announcing that their battle is not yet over.

At the train station, Ash, Iris, Cilan, Pikachu, Axew, Oshawott, Snivy, Scraggy, Emolga, and Pansage are on board the train that will take them into the city. They stop at Windy Station and purchase some Darumaka boxed lunches before they return to the train. An injured Keldeo ends up on the train and Ash and his friends find it. after it calms down, Keldeo tells them that Kyurem is following him and it is trying to escape. However, Keldeo collapses from its injuries. Kyurem arrives with its minions, several Cryogonal, still wanting to continue the fight. However, Kyurem withdraws when the train enters a tunnel. Iris remembers about Kyurem and tells them what she learned about it, having been told about it from the elder in her hometown and how it is the strongest Dragon-Type in the world

The group takes Keldeo to Roshan City's Pokémon Center to heal it, where Nurse Joy explains about the legend of Kyurem and the Swords of Justice, the latter being heroes who protect the Pokémon from danger, and how Kyurem is the final challenge for a Swords of Justice trainee. Outside the Pokémon Center, Ash and his friends introduce themselves. Keldeo soon explains about its battle with Kyurem, how Kyurem froze it's teammates and how it ran away, but after some persuasion from Ash it decides to find Kyurem and continue the battle. Later that night, Kyurem enters the city with it's minions and keeps trying to get to Keldeo, while the group decides to go to Full Court, so they can free the Swords of Justice. Iris uses a zeppelin while Cilan uses an abandoned train (powered by his Stunfisk), tricking Kyurem into thinking that Keldeo is with each of them, but this merely causes Kyurem to become enraged and attack them both, though they survive.

Meanwhile, Ash and Keldeo head towards Full Court in order to free the Swords of Justice. Ash asks Keldeo what are the Swords of Justice like. Keldeo tells Ash about each of the Swords of Justice in turn. Upon hearing that Keldeo is heading there, Kyurem heads back to Full Court to continue the battle. Keldeo becomes scared to fight once more and reveals to Ash that it lied to Kyurem in order to challenge it, so Ash and Pikachu head on their own to Full Court to free the Swords of Justice with Pignite and Boldore after Keldeo becomes too scared to press on. Infuriated that they are trespassing its home, Kyurem tries to attack them, but Keldeo rescues them, gaining the courage it needs to fight. Although Keldeo reveals to Kyurem that it is not one of the Swords of Justice but rather training to be one, Kyurem reveals that it knew all along that Keldeo lied to it, but it still accepted his challenge and it intends to finish the battle. Keldeo transforms into his Resolute Form and the two start to finish their battle. Their battle causes Full Court to start collapsing and the ice holding the Swords of Justice breaks, freeing them in the process. The Swords of Justice thank Ash and he recalls Pignite and Boldore but the Swords of Justice refuse to interfere in the new match. during the battle Keldeo gets encased in ice, but Cobalion refuses to let anyone save him, just as Kyurem is about to finish him off Keldeo breaks free from the ice, with a giant glowing sword coming from his horn, the Swords of Justice are amazed that he has learned Secret Sword, also impressing Kyurem which makes it declare that it is now a 'real battle', causing it to transform and unleash it's full power on Keldeo.

During the battle, Kyurem and Keldeo fire blasts at each other but Kyurem's blast accidentely gets sent towards and threatens to hurt Ash and his friends, but Keldeo gets in the way of the blast to save them. This defeats Keldeo, and Kyurem takes its win after transforming into Black Kyurem. Despite being defeated by Kyurem, the latter congratulates Keldeo for choosing to save them instead of pursuing victory, the Swords of Justice and Ash and his friends praise Keldeo for finally learning the true power of the sword, which officially makes it the fourth member of the team. The group retreats when Full Court collapses while Kyurem transforms into White Kyurem to freeze everything before going back into it's chamber. Outside, Ash and his friends congratulate Keldeo. Soon, Cobalion thinks that it's time to say the Swords of Justice Oath and it would like Ash and his friends to be their witnesses. Ash and friends agree. Then Keldeo switches from ordinary form to resolute form and they all say the oath together, after that Ash and the Swords of Justice part ways.

Music

As in the previous Pokémon films and its anime series, the music is composed by Shinji Miyazaki.

The movie's theme song is titled "Memories" (メモリーズ Memorīzu) which is performed by the Bengali-Russian-Japanese model-turned-singer Rola.[11] The film's director Kunihiko Yuyama thinks the song will work perfectly for the film itself after he first heard it. Rola also voiced a character in the film named Marin. The single itself was released on July 11, 2012. And the English ending for this movie is "It's All Inside of You" written by John Loeffler and David Wolfert (who also wrote "Rival Destines" which is performed by Kathryn Raio and Alex Nackman) and is performed by Jesse Turner.

Cast

Regular characters

Character Voice Actor (Japanese) Voice Actor (English)
Satoshi/Ash Rica Matsumoto Sarah Natochenny
Pikachu Ikue Ōtani
Iris Aoi Yūki Eileen Stevens
Dent/Cilan Mamoru Miyano Jason Griffith
Narrator Unshō Ishizuka Ken Gates

Jessie (Musashi), James (Kojirō), and Meowth (Nyarth) make several cameo appearances in this feature but without any spoken dialogue.

Movie characters

References

  1. ↑ "Japan Box Office 2012". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2012-11-03.
  2. 1 2 "新ポケモン「ケルディオ」発見!!". Pokemon.co.jp. Pokémon Company. February 15, 2012. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Pokémon: Kyurem Vs. Seikenshi Film to Open in 2012". Anime News Network. December 8, 2011. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  4. ↑ "来年の映画『キュレムVS聖剣士』が、2012年7月14日(土)全国東宝系にて公開決定！ ポスター2種類を発表！". Pokemon.co.jp. Pokémon Company. December 16, 2011. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  5. ↑ "Pokémon: Kyurem Vs. Seikenshi Film Slated for July 14". Anime News Network. December 16, 2011. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  6. 1 2 "今年もポケモンの夏!「キュレムvs聖剣士ケルディオ 劇場版ポケットモンスターベストウィッシュ」". February 25, 2012. Retrieved February 26, 2012.
  7. ↑ Junichi Masuda [Junichi_Masuda] (February 26, 2012). "最新作『ポケットモンスターブラック2・ホワイト2』の2匹の新ポケモンの名前ですが、、、" (Tweet). Retrieved February 26, 2012 – via Twitter.
  8. ↑ Junichi Masuda [Junichi_Masuda] (February 26, 2012). ""Black Kyurem" and "White Kyurem" are the names of new legendary Poke'mon!!" (Tweet). Retrieved February 26, 2012 – via Twitter.
  9. ↑ CoroCoro Comic July 2012 Issue, Shogakukan
  10. ↑ CoroCoro Comic, April 2012 Shogakukan
  11. ↑ Oha Suta. April 12, 2012. TV Tokyo.
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