Arceus and the Jewel of Life
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| Japanese | 劇場版ポケットモンスター ダイヤモンド&パール アルセウス 超克の時空へ |
| Hepburn | Gekijōban Poketto Monsutā Daiyamondo ando Pāru: Aruseusu Chōkoku no Jikū e |
| Literally | Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl the Movie: Arceus: To Conquering Space-Time |
| Directed by | Kunihiko Yuyama |
| Produced by | Takemoto Mori Junya Okamoto Mikihiko Yanagisawa Chōji Yoshikawa |
| Written by | Hideki Sonoda |
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Rica Matsumoto Megumi Toyoguchi Yūji Ueda Inuko Inuyama Shin-ichiro Miki Megumi Hayashibara Kii Kitano Masahiro Takashima Kōichi Yamadera Akihiro Miwa Ikue Ōtani |
| Narrated by | Unshō Ishizuka |
| Music by | Shinji Miyazaki |
| Cinematography | Takaya Mizutani |
| Edited by | Toshio Henmi |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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94 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | $50.7 million |
Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life, originally released in Japan as Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl the Movie: Arceus: To Conquering Space-Time (劇場版ポケットモンスター ダイヤモンド&パール アルセウス 超克の時空へ Gekijōban Poketto Monsutā Daiyamondo ando Pāru: Aruseusu Chōkoku no Jikū e?), is a 2009 Japanese anime film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama. It is the twelfth Pokémon film and the third in the Diamond & Pearl trilogy. This film so far has earned US$50.2 million in Japan, making it the highest grossing animated film of the year in that country, beating Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance and Detective Conan: The Raven Chaser. The English language dub was aired on November 6, 2009, in Australia, November 20, 2009, in the United States in theaters and on Cartoon Network, on May 28, 2010, in the United Kingdom on Disney XD UK and The Spanish language dub was aired on Spain April 4, 2010, on Disney XD and Latin America on November 21, 2010, on Cartoon Network. This marks the first time that a Pokémon feature film has made its U.S. debut in the same year as its original Japanese release before the Japanese DVD release on December 18, 2009. The theme song of the film is "Kokoro no Antenna" by Shoko Nakagawa. Cartoon Network (Pakistan) aired the movie in August 2011.
The movie's fictitious setting is based on various locations in Greece, which the director and producers visited during August 2008. Among the locations they visited and have been used as inspiration for the movie were the Acropolis, Mycenae, Delphi, Metéora.
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