Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi

In the summer heat Nobita and his friends use one of Doraemon's gadgets to bring a block of ice from Antarctica. There is a gold ring inside the ice. Looking for its owner they learn that the ice comes from ten thousand years ago. They travel there with the time machine; they see Antarctica before it was covered in ice, and there is a civilisation on it. The city is frozen, the people are gone, and whatever brought the ice is still there. The ring belongs to a girl and she has to be found. Atsushi Takahashi directs. The film is one of the Doraemon features and tells an original story. It is a Japanese production. The narrative uses ice and freezing as an image throughout. The matter it treats is the trace of a lost civilisation; the film builds its adventure like an excavation. The usual structure of the series is kept; discovery, danger and a solution with gadgets. The film aims at a young audience and keeps the frightening passages short. Its visual design, with the frozen city and the snow, makes it one of the most spectacular in the series. The narrative is built on friendship and on keeping a promise. The rules of time travel are bent and there are gaps in the logic. The ending closes on a meeting. Its limit is simplicity; the plot is familiar, the characters are types, and there are few surprises. Who it is for: viewers of Doraemon and children looking for an adventure. Who it is not for: it is simple, aimed at children, and the ending what you expect.