Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice (2012) poster
2012 · family · animation · action · adventure

Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice

Directed by Kunihiko Yuyama1h 12m2012
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  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • surreal
  • redemptive
  • tender
  • epic-stakes
Movie DNA

Cosy, breathless, measured family / animation, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Ash and his two friends Iris and Cilan help a Keldeo battle against a powerful Dragon-type Pokémon named Kyurem its his test to become a Sacred Swordsman.

Our read · Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice (2012) reads as a cosy, breathless, surreal family · animation · action entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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