Stand By Me Doraemon (STAND BY ME ドラえもん) is a 2014 Japanese 3D computer animated anthology film based on the Doraemon manga series and directed by Takashi Yamazaki and Ryūichi Yagi. It was first released on August 8, 2014 in Japan. Bang Zoom! Entertainment premiered an English-dubbed version of the film at the Tokyo International Film Festival on October 24, and in Catalan at the La festa dels súpers 2014 in October 25-26. Another English dub was shown in cinemas in the Philippines. Stand by Me Doraemon has been released in 59 countries overall.
Story
The plot combines the short stories "All the Way From the Country of the Future", "Imprinting Egg", "Goodbye, Shizuka-chan", "Romance in Snowy Mountain", "Nobita's the night Before a Wedding" and "Goodbye, Doraemon..." into a new complete story - from the first time Doraemon came to Nobita's house to Doraemon bidding farewell to Nobita.
Plot
Nobita Nobi is a fourth grader who constantly gets failing grades in his subjects due to his laziness and is always bullied by his classmates Suneo Honekawa and Takeshi "Gian" Goda. His great-great grandson from the 22nd century Sewashi, who watches him everyday, travels to Nobita's timeline while bringing along his robotic cat Doraemon. Sewashi reveals that if Nobita keeps up his act, he will have a disastrous future: he will marry Gian's sister Jaiko, have his private company burned down, and will be left with a great debt. To circumvent this, he orders Doraemon to help Nobita, modifying Doraemon's nose to prevent him from returning to the future unless Nobita gains a better future.
Being reluctant until the threat, Doraemon introduces his gadgets to help Nobita which helps him immensely. Though Doraemon warns Nobita not to be too dependent on his gadgets, Nobita asks Doraemon to help him woo his crush Shizuka Minamoto whom Doraemon reveals is the one Nobita will marry if his future is corrected. However, all his efforts end up making Shizuka becoming closer to ace student, Hidetoshi Dekisugi. Nobita's attempt to be equal with Dekisugi by studying harder is futile and he decides to let go of Shizuka to make her happier. Mistaking him planning to commit suicide, Shizuka arrives at the Nobi's residence and resists Nobita's people-repelling potion to help him which Doraemon reveals is the first step in Nobita and Shizuka's growing relationship to eventually becoming a couple.
Upon seeing his older self rejecting Shizuka's invitation to a mountain climbing, Nobita disguise himself as his older self to help Shizuka who he thinks is separated from her group during a heavy blizzard. His efforts to help Shizuka do more hurt to himself, but this makes Shizuka feel that she has to accompany Nobita saying "yes" before collapsing from cold she contracted from her earlier conversation with Nobita. Forcing himself to remember the moment, the two are rescued by Nobita's older self who recalled the memory. Nobita learns from his older self that Shizuka was answering to the latter's proposition to marry her which means that the two will indeed marry. After hearing that Shizuka's father has also accepted her daughter's spouse, Nobita and Doraemon return back to the present timeline.
As Nobita's future has changed for the better, Doraemon's programming commands him to return back to the future in 48 hours. Noticing that Doraemon has a hard time to leave due to his concern for Nobita, Nobita confronts and has a brutal fight with Gian to prove that he is able to defend himself without Doraemon. Seeing that Nobita refuses to give up, Gian forfeits as Doraemon tearfully takes Nobita home before leaving in peace the next day. During April Fools, Nobita is tricked by Gian into believing that Doraemon has returned. In anger, he drinks a solution Doraemon gave to him which turns all lies into truth and vice versa. Finishing his retribution against Suneo and Gian, Nobita goes back home while lamenting that Doraemon will never return. To his surprise, Doraemon suddenly returns because Nobita said that Doraemon would never return, still with the effects of the potion, and it became a lie. The two hug and cry in happiness, intermingled with a hilarious remix of insulting sentences from the potion effects.
Characters
Voice Cast
Voice Actor | Role(s) |
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Gadgets used
*- doesn't included in the card collection
Differences between the anime and manga
Title | Manga | Episode | Movie |
All the Way From the Country of the Future | The time of the day when Nobita first met Doraemon is daytime. | The time of the day when Nobita first met Doraemon is night time. | |
Imprinting Egg | Gian gets inside the egg until the 15 minutes pass. | Nobita drops the egg and Gian hits him, causing him to open and fall inside him. | |
Goodbye, Shizuka | Shizuka's mother is the one who receive Nobita's comics. | Yoshio Minamoto is the one who receive Nobita's comic books. | |
In how Nobita makes Shizuka hate him he peeks beneath her skirt. | In how Nobita makes Shizuka hate him he blows the skirt upward with the use of his hands. | ||
Shizuka runs away. | Shizuka slaps him first before running away. | ||
The Bug Off was shampoo-like | The Bug Off is a thing of pills | The Bug Off is a container of Ball-like pills | |
Romance in the Snowy Mountain | Doraemon finds Nobita | Doraemon is asleep and unknown that Nobita needs his help | |
Shizuka is not sick when mountain climbing. | Shizuka is badly sick and faints. | ||
Shizuka accepts the proposal of Nobita after the mountain climbing | Shizuka accepts the proposal of Nobita during their stay inside the cave | ||
Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding | Doraemon & Nobita uses the Take-copter and peeks in the window. | Doraemon & Nobita uses the Invisible cape. | |
Suneo force Nobita to believe about Tsuchinoko, but when Nobita use the stick to find it in the pipe in the Open Lot the dog appears and attack Nobita. | Suneo is wearing a Doraemon suit to prank Nobita. | Suneo doesn't wear the suit but instead he force Nobita to believe about Tsukinoko that is actually a prank. |
Music
- Himawari no Yakusoku (ひまわりの約束) by "Motohiro Hata"
DVD/Blu-ray/digital releases with English subtitles
Hong Kong version - Blu-ray Region A - 3D + 2D Audio: Cantonese, Japanese Subtitles: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese
Hong Kong version - DVD Region 3 Audio: Cantonese, Japanese Subtitles: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese
Korea version - DVD Region 3 Audio: Japanese, Korean Subtitles: English, Korean
iTunes version (Singapore) Audio: Japanese Subtitles: English, Indonesian, Mandarin, Simplified Chinese
Release
Southeast Asia
- Macau
- South Korea (February 2015)
- Singapore (December 2014)
- Malaysia (January 2015)
- Brunei
- Vietnam (December 2014)
- Thailand
- Laos
- Cambodia
- Myanmar
- Philippines (June 2015)
- Indonesia (December 2014)
East Asia
South Asia
West Asia
Africa
- Algeria
- Chad
- Comoros
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Libya
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Oman
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Somalia
- Sudan
- South Sudan
- Syria
- Tunisia
- UAE (December 2015)
- Western Sahara
Europe
- Italy
- San Marino
- Vatican City
- Malta
- Monaco
- Switzerland
- Spain (December 2014)
- France
Names in other languages
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Trivia
- The plot combines the manga chapters; "All the Way from the Country of the Future", "Romance in the Snowy Mountain", "Partners of the Night", "The Night Before Nobita's Wedding" and "Good bye, Doraemon" and also the episode "Goodbye, Shizuka" & "Imprinting Egg"
- The song that plays in the beginning of the third trailer is called Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto 1 - B Flat Minor.
- Stand by Me Doraemon will release in 36 more countries,two more countries and finally 2 last countries was added to the list. Total will be 60 countries in all.
- This is the first and only movie that does not have Nobita's name in the title like all of the 2D films do.
- In Doraemon's bedroom, there was a poster of a girl. The girl appears to be Sumire Hoshino, a character from Perman with brown hair. However, she has black hair in the movie.
- In the movie, it was revealed that Shizuka & Nobita are married on October 24 and they got engaged 14 years before that.
- In the future, Nobita's car has a nameplate of 09-03, referring to Doraemon's birthday.
- This is the first Doraemon feature film to use CGI.
- This is the first and so far only Doraemon feature film that does not have any new characters.
- In the English version prepared for the Filipino market, the cast is different from the US English dub cast.
- The English version with the US cast shown at the Tokyo International film festival and available on iTunes Japan was also released with subtitles for the Arabic market.
- According to statistics, 88.4% of the audiences cried;47% were male while 53% were female.
- The post movie credits are accompanied by fake outtakes. Here are some screenshots:
- In 2015, an English subtitled version appeared on Delta Airlines flights with the Delta Studio feature. This subtitled version used the Bang! Zoom dub names for the characters, except Sue, who was accidentally called Shizuka, her original Japanese name, throughout the entire film.
- An all-female J-pop group, AKB48 reviewed the movie. 49 of the members will rate the movie from 1-5. Though majority of the members give the movie 5 Ratings, Miyazato Rira gave the movie 0 points out of 5.
English dub
An English version of this movie was commissioned by TV Asahi and produced by Bang Zoom! Entertainment, the same company that made the English dub that aired on Disney XD US. It premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival in 2014. It resurfaced on the Japanese iTunes Store in 2015, it's also available on Amazon Prime Video Japan and on Netflix in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and the Maldives. It hasn't had a release in other countries.
As for the dub itself, it's completely uncut with no edits for censorship whatsoever.
References
- STAND BY ME DORAEMON Box Office MojoRetrieved August 13, 2014.
- "Robot Cat Doraemon's 1st 3D CG Film Teased in Video" Anime News Network. 2013-11-14. Retrieved 2013-12-13.
- "Anime Robot Cat Doraemon Enters 3rd Dimension in 1st 3D CG Film" Anime News Network. 2013-11-13. Retrieved 2013-12-13.
- Beck, Jerry (March 9, 2014). "Anime Trailer: "Stand By Me, Doreamon"". Animation Scoop. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
- "STAND BY ME ドラえもん [ブルーレイ豪華版"] (in Japanese). Pony Canyon. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
External Links
- Official website
- Stand by Me Doraemon at the Internet Movie Database
- Stand by Me Doraemon (anime) at Anime News Network Encyclopedia
Gallery
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