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This article is about the movie. For the manga, see The Rise of Darkrai (manga).

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The Rise of Darkrai ディアルガVSパルキアVSダークライ Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai

Premiere Japan July 14, 2007 United States February 24, 2008*

Home video Japan December 21, 2007 United States May 27, 2008

English themes Opening {{{enop}}} Ending {{{ened}}}

Japanese themes Opening jaop Ending jaed

Ratings United States PG Great Britain PG Ireland ? Canada ? Quebec ? Japan G Germany ? Australia G New Zealand ?

The Rise of Darkrai (Japanese: ディアルガVSパルキアVSダークライ Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai) is the first Generation IV Pokémon movie, the first of the Diamond & Pearl movies trilogy, and the tenth Pokémon movie overall. It premiered in Japanese theaters on July 14, 2007. It was aired in North America on February 24, 2008 on Cartoon Network and it was released on DVD on May 27, 2008. It was released on DVD in the UK on September 29, 2008 and in Australia on November 5, 2008. In Spain it aired in Jetix on September 6, 2008 and in Mexico on May 13, 2009 on Open Signal, instead of Cartoon Network.

Other posters and DVD covers

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  Preview poster

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  Dialga VS Palkia movie poster

• Pikachu the Movie 10 poster.jpg

  Pikachu the Movie 10th poster

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  Final Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai movie poster

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  Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai DVD cover

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis On their way to participate in the next Pokémon Contest, Ash and his friends have come to Alamos Town, where they meet a girl named Alice, and her Chimchar. The two run a hot- air balloon that takes travelers into Alamos Town.

While Alice is showing them around the town, her friend, Tonio, sits in his lab, reading Godey's diary. It tells of Alice's grandmother, Alicia, who was playing in the garden one day when she was a little girl. Suddenly, she sees a Luxray trying to attack something, when all of a sudden it is engulfed by a strange orb that puts it to sleep. Alicia runs to it, then sees Darkrai laying under a tree. It is hurt, and she helps it to heal by playing Oracion on her leaf whistle.

We return to where Alice is showing our heroes around the garden. Ash, Dawn and Brock let their Pokémon out to play in the garden, and Piplup sees a berry on a tree. It reaches for it, but anouther Pokémon eats it. Angered, Piplup starts to fight, and Ash, Dawn, and Brock are about to intervene to separate them when Alice starts to play "Oracion" on her leaf whistle. When she finishes, all the Pokémon are calm. As she starts to explain about the song, a Gallade runs up to them, motioning for them to follow. It leads them to where the garden has been distorted. Then, Baron Alberto, an influential man of the town, arrives on the scene. Alberto is confident that the devastation is the work of the legendary Pokémon Darkrai. Then, from the ominous shadows, Darkrai suddenly appears before them. Darkrai tells them to, "Go away!" and it attacks with a Dark Void that hits Ash and puts hit to sleep.

Ash dreams that Pikachu is killed, but Pikachu shocks him awake from out of the nightmare he is having. As Ash and friends leave the Pokémon Center, Tonio runs up to them and tells them that Space- Time is about to be destroyed. Thinking that it's Darkrai, Ash and friends go off to find the Pokémon. Just at that moment, a fierce battle between Dialga and Palkia is unfolding in an interval of space-time. Space-time is torn apart by the collision of terrible energies. Through the tear, Alamos Town can be seen...

The whole of Alamos Town is wrapped in an ominous fog, and a mysterious phenomenon arises where the people are unable to leave the town. Then, Tonio, who has become aware of the abnormal space-time phenomena, hastily analyzes the data, and discovers that the devastation of the garden was a sign that Palkia had entered the town. Palkia, having sustained injuries in its violent fight with Dialga, took refuge in Alamos Town. However, Darkrai senses the presence of Palkia and attacks it, causing a terrible battle. Furthermore, chasing Palkia, Dialga appears in Alamos Town from another dimension. When the two Pokémon called as gods encounter Darkrai, the greatest battle in history will begin. Powerful shockwaves shake all of Alamos Town, and before long the town is on the verge of collapse. The nightmare written in Godey's diary is becoming reality... Will Ash and his friends be able to resolve this crisis? Is Darkrai an enemy or an ally?

Featured Pokémon

• Dialga
• Palkia
• Darkrai

Debuts

• Darkrai
• Infernape
• Empoleon
• Torterra
• Lickilicky
• Chingling
• Finneon
• Lumineon
• Gallade
• Drifblim
• Tangrowth
• Yanmega
• Luxio
• Luxray
• Gible
• Bronzor
• Honchkrow
• Purugly
• Shellos (East Sea)
• Cherrim

Cast

				出演
Ash Ketchum	Sarah Natochenny	Satoshi	Rica Matsumoto	サトシ	松本梨香
Pikachu	Ikue Ohtani	Pikachu	Ikue Ohtani	ピカチュウ	大谷育江
Brock	Bill Rogers	Takeshi	Yūji Ueda	タケシ	うえだ　ゆうじ
Dawn	Emily Jenness	Hikari	Megumi Toyoguchi	ヒカリ	豊口めぐみ
Jessie	Michele Knotz	Musashi	Megumi Hayashibara	ムサシ	林原めぐみ
James	Billy Beach	Kojirō	Shin'ichirō Miki	コジロウ	三木眞一郎
Meowth	Billy Beach	Nyarth	Inuko Inuyama	ニャース	犬山イヌコ
Narration	Rodger Parsons	Narration	Unshō Ishizuka	ナレーション	石塚運昇
		Special appearances by		特別出演
Darkrai	Scott Williams	Darkrai	Kōji Ishizaka	ダークライ	石坂浩二
Tonio	Rich McNanna	Tonio	Kōji Yamamoto (Daisuke Sakaguchi as a child)	トニオ	山本耕史
Alice	Khristine Hvam	Alice	Rosa Katō	アリス	加藤ローサ
Baron Alberto	Sean Reyes	Baron Alberto	Kōichi Yamadera	アルベルト男爵	山寺宏一
Kai	Ax Norman	Dai	Ryūji Akiyama	ダイ	秋山竜次 （ロバート）
Maury	Joshua Swanson	Katsumi	Hiroshi Yamamoto	カツミ	山本　博 （ロバート）
Allegra	Emily Williams	Maki	Shōko Nakagawa	マキ	中川翔子

Staff

Created by 原案	Satoshi Tajiri Jun'ichi Masuda Ken Sugimori	田尻　智 増田順一 杉森　建
Production supervisor スーパーバイザー	Tsunekazu Ishihara	石原恒和
Animation supervisor アニメーション監修	Yōichi Kotabe	小田部羊一
Executive producers エグゼクティブプロデューサー	Masakazu Kubo Kenjirō Itō	久保雅一 伊藤憲二郎
Producers プロデューサー	Chōji Yoshikawa Jun'ya Okamoto Takemoto Mori	吉川兆二 岡本順哉 盛　武源
Animation producers アニメーションプロデューサー	?	?
Screenplay 脚本	Hideki Sonoda	園田英樹
Storyboard 絵コンテ	Kunihiko Yuyama ?	湯山邦彦 ?
Assistant directors 演出	?	?
Character design キャラクターデザイン	Kazuaki Mōri Norihiro Matsuhara Sayuri Ichiishi	毛利和昭 松原徳弘 一石小百合
Executive animation directors 総作画監督	Kazuaki Mōri ?	毛利和昭 ?
Animation directors 作画監督	Tokuhiro Matsubara ?	松原徳弘 ?
Color keys 色彩設計	?	?
Colorist 色指定	?	?
Art supervisor 美術監修	Katsuyoshi Kanemura	金村勝義
Art director 美術監督	?	?
Director of photography 撮影監督	Takaya Mizutani	水谷貴哉
CGI	OLM Digital	OLM Digital
CGI director CGI監督	Makoto Satō	佐藤　誠
CGI producer CGIプロデューサー	Misako Saka	坂　美佐子
Editor 編集	Toshio Henmi	辺見俊夫
Music 音楽	Shinji Miyazaki	宮崎慎二
Music producers 音楽プロデューサー	Kazuo Shinohara Yūji Saitō	篠原一雄 齋藤裕二
Sound recording mixer 劇場用レコーディングミキサー	Jūji Nakamura	中村充時
Original score (partial) 一部原曲・作曲	Gō Ichinose Morikazu Aoki ?	一之瀬　剛 青木森一 ?
Sound director 音響監督	Masafumi Mima	三間雅文
Recording studio 録音スタジオ	Aoi Studio	アオイスタジオ
Audio production 音響制作	HALF H·P STUDIO	HALF H·P STUDIO
Production 制作	Shōgakukan Production	小学館プロダクション
Animation production アニメーション制作	OLM Team Koitabashi	OLM Team Koitabashi
Director 監督	Kunihiko Yuyama	湯山邦彦

Manga Adaption

Main article: The Rise of Darkrai (manga)

Trivia

• The events of this movie happen between the episodes Steamboat Willies and Top-Down Training, and premiered in Japan between those episodes.
• Yuyama Kunihiko traveled to Spain together with screenwriter Hideki Sonoda and composer Shinji Miyazaki, to various places including the Sagrada Família and Park Güell in Barcelona, to get ideas for the setting of the movie.
• The design of the Space-Time Tower is based on the Sagrada Família.
  • Also, the architect behind the Space-Time Tower is named Godey, and his descendant is named Tonio, both references to the architect of the Sagrada Família, Antoni Gaudí.
• In the English dub, Darkrai is referred as a he, even though Darkrai is genderless in the games.
• This is the first movie to feature the opening theme of the season after the one it corresponds to. In other words, despite being the 10th movie, it features a version of the opening theme of the 11th season, We Will Be Heroes
• Players who had pre-ordered tickets for the Japanese run could receive a Deoxys. In major cinemas, a Darkrai could be downloaded. Instructions on how to get Darkrai were provided before and after the feature presentation by Meowth.
• This is one of the few movies without a human antagonist. The two others are Destiny Deoxys and Lucario and the Mystery of Mew.
• In the trailers, Ash is seen flying over a Pidgeot. This scene was never in the movie itself.

File:InsideSpaceTimeTower.jpg

Inside the Space-Time Tower

• On the wall that features Alicia in the center of the Space-Time Tower, there are many Pokémon and their counterparts on the opposite side of Alicia. They are: Solrock and Lunatone, Dustox and Beautifly, Gallade and Gardevoir, Volbeat and Illumise, Zangoose and Seviper, Electivire and Magmortar, Plusle and Minun, Wormadam and Mothim, Leafeon and Glaceon, and the two variants of Gastrodon.
• The number of Pokémon debuts in this movie is matched only by Mewtwo Strikes Back, Spell of the Unown and Jirachi: Wish Maker; this is because these are the only movies to follow the beginning of a new generation. With the exception of the first movie (which was released more than two years after Generation I had debuted), no Pokémon were introduced in any of these three movies that could not be found in the games of the respective generation. Counting the corresponding Pikachu shorts, Mewtwo Strikes Back had 22 debuts (of which 3 were Generation II Pokémon), Spell of the Unown had 16 and Jirachi: Wish Maker had 14, or 15 if including Groudon as having a live debut. This movie had 18 debuts within itself, or 20 if considering Dialga and Palkia's appearances as their live debuts.
• Five minor characters from other movies make a cameo appearance in this movie:
  • A man and his daughter, who were briefly seen with Aipom in the beginning of Pokémon Heroes, are given a similar appearance alongside Chimecho and Chingling.
  • A man from Jirachi: Wish Maker, where he sold May her Wishing Star, sold Dawn a Lunar Wing.
  • Finally, the mother and girl that were reading the legend of Rota in the beginning of Lucario and the Mystery of Mew were seen buying cotton candy and running away from Darkrai. These two are seen again in the next movie.
• The following promotional cards were released as the 10th Movie Commemoration Set. Each corresponds to a Pokémon film. The first 11 were bought as a set, complete with a gloss paper folder and protective sleeving, while Darkrai had to be obtained when purchasing a ticket.

1. Striking Back Mewtwo
2. Explosive Birth Lugia
3. Crystal Tower's Entei
4. Timeless Celebi
5. Alto Mare's Latias
6. Alto Mare's Latios
7. Seven Nights Jirachi
8. Visitor Deoxys
9. Tree of Beginning's Mew
10. Wave-Guiding Hero Lucario
11. Prince of the Sea Manaphy
12. Darkrai

• The opening scenes includes references in a row to all earlier movies:
  • It starts of with a fleeing Mew that is attacked by a Mewtwo which uses Shadow Ball, only to be stopped by Mew by absorbing the attack with a shield (Mewtwo Strikes Back).
    • Coincidentally, despite the animation change, Shadow Ball retains the original animation from the first movie.
  • Then, a Lugia appears, flying alongside Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres, and makes the cloudy sky sunny again (The Power of One).
  • A large number of Unown appear, and soon, an Entei uses Fire Spin on a Pokémon (Spell of the Unown)...
  • ...which actually is a Celebi that soon heals itself, stops the Fire Spin, and flies to the side of a Suicune that roars and jumps (Celebi: Voice of the Forest).
  • A Latios and Latias then fly across the screen (Pokémon Heroes).
  • A giant, angry Groudon comes from an explosion at the ground and roars, waking up a Jirachi that flies away (Jirachi: Wish Maker).
  • In the ozone layer, two Deoxys, both of which are in their Speed formes, flee from Rayquaza, who uses Hyper Beam, which destroys a cliff (Destiny Deoxys).
  • A Lucario suddenly jumps from the cliff and Regirock, Regice, and Registeel use Hyper Beam (Lucario and the Mystery of Mew).
  • A Kyogre then makes a majestic jump out of water, being followed by a Manaphy. (Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea)
  • After the above scenes, both Mew and Ho-Oh fly past Earth seen from space.
  • If these references to previous movies are counted, The Rise of Darkrai has the most legendary Pokémon in it, with 23, though only three (Dialga, Palkia, and Darkrai) are featured.
  • The only pre-Generation IV Legendary Pokémon not to appear in the prologue is Raikou, which has yet to appear in a movie.
• A replica of the Alamos Space-Time tower was featured in the museum in A Secret Sphere of Influence.
• Elements and motifs from the previous movies are seen in this movie, including:
  • Three trainers present to show off the final evolved forms of their starter Pokémon (Mewtwo Strikes Back).
  • A song to calm the fighting between powerful Pokémon (The Power of One).
  • Battling in another dimension (Spell of the Unown).
  • One of the legendary Pokémon dies, but comes back to life by the end of the movie (Celebi: Voice of the Forest).
  • Pokémon to human transformation and vice versa (Pokémon Heroes).
  • A romance that slowly develops and is later canonized at the end of the story. (Jirachi: Wish Maker).
  • Battling within a large town or city and almost destroying it, as well as having a character that uses computer research to forsee the upcoming situation (Destiny Deoxys).
  • Constant flashbacks which serve some importance to the plot. Also, the title Pokémon mistaking a female character for one of her ancestors, due to being close with said ancestor (Lucario and the Mystery of Mew).
  • Solving a riddle (Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea).
• The Lunar Wing that Dawn bought in the movie returns in Sleepless in Pre-Battle!, marking the first mention of the events of the movie in the anime and thus making the movie canon.
• This is the first and only movie where the title sequence music does not contain the introduction theme of the original games.
• The Shellos that appears in the movie is in their East Sea form. According to a recent map of the anime, Alamos Town is actually on the western side of Mt. Coronet, although it is unknown whether or not the Shellos was from Alamos Town.
• This is the first Pokémon movie to be rated PG in the United States and the first Pokémon movie to be rated in the United States at all since Pokémon Heroes.

Errors

• The same Japanese voice over that is heard in Tanks for the Memories! is heard when Dawn sends out her Pokémon to play.
• During part of the scene where Ash and Dawn's Pokémon are running up the spiral staircase in the Space-Time towers after being separated from their trainers, Aipom was mistakenly left out.

In other languages

• Danish: Darkrai Slår Til
• Dutch: De Opkomst van Darkrai
• German: Der Aufstieg von Darkrai
• French: L'ascension de Darkrai
• Iberian Spanish: El desafío de Darkrai
• Italian: L'ascesa di Darkrai
• Brazilian Portuguese: O Pesadelo de Darkrai
• Chinese(TW/HK): 決戰時空之塔 帝牙盧卡VS帕路奇犽VS達克萊伊
• Finnish: Darkrai nousee
• Korean: 디아루가VS펄기아VS다크라이
• Swedish: Darkrai Slår Till
• Latin American Spanish: El surgimiento de Darkrai

Box office performance

Source: goo 映画

2007	Jul. 14 - 15	Jul. 21 - 22	Jul. 28 - 29	Aug. 4 - 5	Aug. 11 - 12	Aug. 18 - 19	Aug. 25 - 26	Sep. 1 - 2	Sep. 8 - 9
Overall ranking	⇨ 1st	⇩ 2nd	⇩ 3rd	⇩ 5th	⇨ 5th	⇨ 5th	⇩ 8th	⇩ 9th	⇩ 10th
Domestic movies	⇨ 1st	⇨ 1st	⇨ 1st	⇩ 2nd	⇧ 1st	⇨ 1st	⇩ 2nd	⇩ 3rd	⇩ 5th
Animated movies	⇨ 1st	⇨ 1st	⇩ 2nd	⇨ 2nd	⇨ 2nd	⇨ 2nd	⇨ 2nd	⇩ 3rd	⇨ 3rd

The Rise of Darkrai earned a franchise record of 5.02 billion yen (US$47 million).

See Also

• Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai Music Collection

External links

• Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai at IMDb
• Official website (Japanese)
• Bulbanews: Director Kunihiko Yuyama speaks about tenth movie
• Bulbanews: Full Movie 10 title revealed

This movie article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of Pokémon animation.