Stand by Me Doraemon

Stand by Me Doraemon
A closeup of Doraemon with his eyes forming tears. Below the words "Stand By Me", cartoon-styled Japanese text reading "Doraemon".
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
KanjiSTAND BY ME ドラえもん
Literal meaningStand By Me Doraemon
Directed by
Screenplay byTakashi Yamazaki
Based onDoraemon
by Fujiko F. Fujio
Produced by
  • Shūji Abe
  • Okura Shunsuke
  • Keiichiro Moriya
  • Kiyoko Shibuya
  • Maiko Okada
Starring
Music byNaoki Sato
Production
companies
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 8 August 2014 (2014-08-08) (Japan)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office$183.4 million[1]

Stand by Me Doraemon (Japanese: STAND BY ME ドラえもん, Hepburn: Sutando Bai Mī Doraemon) is a 2014 Japanese animated science fiction comedy-drama film based on the Doraemon manga series and directed by Ryūichi Yagi and Takashi Yamazaki.[2] It was released on 8 August 2014.[3][4] It is the highest-grossing film of the Doraemon franchise. Bang Zoom! Entertainment premiered an English-dubbed version of the film at the Tokyo International Film Festival on 24 October 2014.[5] The English version features the cast of the Disney XD show Doraemon: Gadget Cat From the Future.[citation needed] A different English version with local actors was distributed by Multivision Pictures Entertainment and VIVA International Pictures for a Filipino audience in 2015, however is currently lost. It is therefore the first of 2 Doraemon films to be dubbed in English.

Stand by Me Doraemon was commercially successful in Japan. It was number one on the box office charts for five consecutive weeks and was the second highest-grossing Japanese anime film of 2014 in Japan, with a box office total of $183.4 million, behind Disney's Frozen.[6][7][8] In February 2015, the film won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year at the 38th Japan Academy Prize.[9]

A sequel was released on 20 November 2020 in Japan.[10]

The film is primarily based on the first chapter of the manga "All the Way From the Future", the 1973 chapter "Mountain Rescue", the 1980 chapter "Goodbye Shizuka", the 1984 chapter "Imprinting Shizuka", the 1998 short film "Doraemon Comes Back" and the 1999 short film "Doraemon: Nobita's Night Before a Wedding", though several other chapters are briefly brought up as well.

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  2. ^ "Robot Cat Doraemon's 1st 3D CG Film Teased in Video". Anime News Network. 14 November 2013. Archived from the original on 6 July 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
  3. ^ "Anime Robot Cat Doraemon Enters 3rd Dimension in 1st 3D CG Film". Anime News Network. 13 November 2013. Archived from the original on 18 December 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
  4. ^ Beck, Jerry (9 March 2014). "Anime Trailer: "Stand By Me, Doreamon"". Animation Scoop. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  5. ^ Debruge, Peter (11 May 2015). "Film Review: 'Stand by Me Doraemon'". Archived from the original on 29 June 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference THR was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ 2014年邦画ベスト10、山崎貴監督2作品で171億円!" Archived 31 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine Eiga.com. (2014年12月16日) 2014年12月17日閲覧。
  8. ^ "Doraemon, Kenshin, Thermae Romae II Rank in 2014's Top 5 Japanese Films". Anime News Network. 7 June 2023. Archived from the original on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  9. ^ 第38回日本アカデミー賞最優秀賞発表! Archived 14 January 2015 at archive.today、日本アカデミー賞公式サイト、2015年1月16日閲覧。
  10. ^ "Stand By Me Doraemon 2 postponed to 20 November 2020" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 27 November 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2020.

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