Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan

Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan
Directed by Tsutomu Shibayama
Starring Nobuyo Ōyama
Noriko Ohara
Release dates
  • 11 March 1989 (1989-03-11)
Running time
100 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Box office ¥2.02 billion[1]
($24 million)

Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan[2] (ドラえもん のび太の日本誕生 Doraemon Nobita no Nippon Tanjō) is the tenth Doraemon film, which was released in 1989. This is the first Heisei era Doraemon movie.This is also the most ticket sold Doraemon movie to date.It is similar to The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. In 2016 the movie was remade as Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan 2016[3]

Plot

The movie starts with a boy who belongs to prehistoric time hunting a fish, gets captured in to time vortex and reaches to the 20th century. In the 20th century, Nobita wants to run away from his home, as depicted many times in various episodes. As a result of failing to find an ideal home, Nobita decides to make a makeshift place to live. However, he still cannot find a place to live due to land property ownership laws. At the same time, Shizuka, Gian, Suneo and Doraemon want to run away from their homes. Then Nobita suggests that they should go back in time to live in a place with very few humans. The group agrees with him and thus, they return to the past Japan, which is 70000 years back from then.

When they reach Japan, Doraemon assigns everyone a ministry. Shizuka is given the ministry of gardening, Gian gets ministry of development, Suneo receives the ministry of landscape and Nobita receives ministry of animals. Doraemon looks after all the ministries. Nobita, who is given the ministry, mixes the genes of different animal and creates Pegasus, Dragon and Griffin. When Doraemon comes, he hides them from him.

At night, the group eats the supper and decides to return home and visit here another day. On the next day, the boy from the start of movie secretly moves into the Nobita's room and hides behind the door. When Gian and Suneo come, Gian fights with him and due to weakness the boy faints. On the arrival of Nobita, Shizuka and Doraemon, the group again moves to past. They take the boy into the cave and when he regains consciousness, Shizuka gives him food. Doraemon use a translation tool in order to understand him. He tells them that he belong to the light tribe and they got attacked by dark tribe which took all of his people. So Nobita and Doraemon decide to help him.

They trace the dark tribe on Pegasus, Dragon and Griffin for four days. On the fourth day, they found them and fight with them. However their shaman proved to be strong and give them a strong challenge only to be defeated by Doraemon's gadget. Unknown to them the shaman possess the power to restore. They took the whole tribe to Japan to give them a peaceful place to live. At night they return home.

Next day Doraemon tells everybody that shaman can restore itself and light tribe is still in danger, so they again move to prehistoric time. They reached late and the dark tribe had already taken the light tribe. They again traced the dark tribe with Doraemon's human train gadget, but Nobita gets lost and separates from the group in the strong ice-fall.

Except for Nobita, the rest of group continues to move and they find the light tribe. Doraemon fights with Gigazombie who was the king of spirits. Doraemon reveals him to be the time criminal, who is creating his own world. He easily defeats Doraemon and others.

On the other hand, Nobita finds out a box near him and sees a hologram that tell him that if needs help he just have to press the button. Nobita's pet animals Pegasus, Dragon and Griffin return and they rescue his friend. However Gigazombie shuts them to a lone place. Nobita uses button and the helper revealed to be Time Patrol who captures the Gigazombie. At the end Pegasus, Dragon and Griffin were returned to Time Patrol as they could not survive in modern era. The groups leaves for home.

Cast

Character Voice
Doraemon Nobuyo Ōyama
Nobita Nobi Noriko Ohara
Shizuka Minamoto Michiko Nomura
Takeshi "Gian" Goda Kazuya Tatekabe
Suneo Honekawa Kaneta Kimotsuki
Kukuru Yōko Matsuoka
Kuzakaru Ryūji Nakagi
Tarane Sakiko Tamagawa
Elder Kōichi Kitamura
Utabe Issei Futamata
Hikari Tribe villagers Chafurin
Naoki Bandō
Kiyoyuki Yanada
Gigazombie Ichirō Nagai
Mammoth Teiji Oomiya
Tsuchidama Gara Takashima
Kurayami Tribe villagers Masashi Hirose
Kazuhiko Kishino
Daisuke Gōri
Time Machine Yūji Mitsuya
Landlord Takashi Taguchi
Future Time Patrol Kōichi Hashimoto
Boy Mari Mashiba
Girls Tamao Hayashi
Masae Asaka
Nobita's Mama Sachiko Chijimatsu
Nobita's Papa Masayuki Sato
Sensei Ryouichi Tanaka
Gian's Mama Kazuyo Aoki

References

  1. Jaeger, Eren. "Past Doraemon Films". Forums.BoxOffice.com. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
  2. English translation as shown on an official website for the 25th anniversary of the movie franchise.
  3. "Doraemon The Movie: Nobita and the Birth of Japan Remake Revealed for March 2016". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2015-12-05.

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