Doraemon the Movie 2017: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi[a] is a Japanese animated science-fiction film. It is the 37th installment in the Doraemon movie series. It is directed and written by Atsushi Takahashi.[1] Takahashi was an assistant director on Hayao Miyazaki's Academy Award-winning Spirited Away.[2] It was released on March 4, 2017, in Japan. [3] A video game based on the film for the Nintendo 3DS was released in Japan on March 2, 2017.[4]