Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan 2016

Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan 2016
Theatrical Releasing Poster
Literally	Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan 2016
Directed by	Shinnosuke Yakuwa
Produced by	Momoko Kawakita Shingo Namerikawa Kirika Tsuruza Hitoshi Ono Rena Takahashi Takuji Yamada Kenji Yoshida
Written by	Shinnosuke Yakuwa (Screenplay) Higashi Shimzu
Based on	Doraemon by Fujiko F. Fujio
Starring	Wasabi Mizuta Megumi Ohara Yumi Kakazu Subaru Kimura Seki Tomokazu Kotono Mitsuishi Yasunori Matsumoto Chiaki Ryōko Shiraishi Hōchū Ōtsuka
Music by	Kan Sawada
Cinematography	Takashi Suehiro
Edited by	Toshihiko Kojima
Production company	Shin-Ei Animation
Distributed by	Toho
Release dates	March 5, 2016 (2016-03-05)
Running time	104 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	US$36.3 million ¥4.07 billion

Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan 2016 (ドラえもん 新・のび太の日本誕生 , Doraemon Shin • Nobita no Nippon Tanjō) is a 2016 Japanese animated science fiction adventure film written and directed by Shinnosuke Yakuwa, and the 36th film in the Doraemon franchise. The film is about the adventure of Nobita and his friend in Japan, 70 thousand years ago. The opening theme song is "Yume o Kanaete Doraemon", performed by MAO and the ending theme song is "Sora e" performed by Masayoshi Yamazaki. The taglines were "Friendship could cross over space-time", "Daddy, I saw the birth of Japan in 21st century", "We can see the birth of Japan in 21st Century" and "Some of the secrets only have in Japan". The film was released on 5 March 2016. It was adapted into a Nintendo 3DS video game, released March 3, 2016. This movie is set to release in Vietnam on 27 May 2016.

Plot

Nobita and his sidekick Doraemon travel in search of adventures of new world in Japan.

Cast

Character	Japanese voice Actor
Doraemon	Wasabi Mizuta
Nobita Nobi	Megumi Ohara
Shizuka Minamoto	Yumi Kakazu
Takeshi "Gian" Goda	Subaru Kimura
Suneo Honekawa	Tomokazu Seki
Nobita's Mom	Kotono Mitsuishi
Nobita's Dad	Yasunori Matsumoto
Gian's Mom	Miyako Takeuchi
Dorami	Chiaki
Tsuchidama	Hiroshi Yanaka
Tajikara	Kouji Ishii
Koiyame	Aya Hisakawa
Pega	Hiroki Shimowada
Gris	Miyako Ito
Draco	Yuki Kaida
Time Patrol Corps	Aya Hisakawa Miki Fukui Keicho Yuka
Time Machine	Miyako Ito
Landowner	Kouji Ishii

Theme song

Opening Theme - Yume wo Kanaete Doraemon
Music and Lyrics - Katsuhiko Kurosu / arranger - Kaoru Okubo / song - Mao / chorus - Sunflower Kids ( Columbia )

Ending Theme - To the Sky
Songwriting, arrangement - Yamazaki SusumuYoshi / song - Masayoshi Yamazaki ( EMI Records )

Guest character

Kukuru Voice - Ryoko Shiraishi
Hikari family boy. Been swallowed by the disturbance of the space-time will be a time slip to Japan of the modern, where become Nobita us and meeting friends. Unlike the original and older movies, wearing many also trinkets on the body. Face and quiet are to become close to a teenager style.

Hikari group
70,000 years ago primitive man tribe who were in the world. In the trailer, elders, Tarane, Tajikara appeared.

Gigazombi
Voice - Yoshitada Otsuka Immortal spirit king. There are tiger of such animal next to the throne. Wearing under the darkness group and Tsuchidama. The color of the mask is, in addition top of skeleton that is different from the previous work has been changed to something like a corner.

Darkness group
Voice - Hiroshi Tanahashi & Togi Makabe , Yoshio Kojima It appeared in the recollection of cucule. Unlike the original and previous work, they are marked with a pattern on the face and both shoulders. Tsuchidama Living under the Gigazonbi clay figures. In this work it is different from the original older movie because street plurality of individuals is to appear. In addition, although it was the same design all in the original, it has a different design for each piece in this work.

Production

On July 10, 2015, Fujiko Pro revealed a new remake of 1989's Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan, which has the highest ticket sales of any Doraemon film to date. On 15 July 2015, the film official website was opened. On 21 October 2015, Voice actor group was announced.

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English version logo

Box office

Debuting on 374 screens with Toho distributing, Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan 2016 earned $5.6 million on 544,816 admissions in its first weekend and ranked 1 on Japanese Box Office. It stayed at the top of Japanese box office for two more weeks, earning a further $14.4 million in the process. It fell to second position in its fourth weekend, behind Assassination Classroom movie, and remained on the second spot the following weekend. It dropped to third spot in its sixth weekend with a weekend gross of $1 million.

Here is a table which shows the box office of this movie of all the weekends:

#	Rank	Weekend	Weekend gross	Total gross till current weekend
1	1	March 5-6	¥637,035,600 ($5.60 million)	¥637,035,600 ($5.60 million)
2	1	March 12-13	¥485,035,600 ($4.26 million)	¥1,254,423,800 ($11.0 million)
3	1	March 19-20	¥399,929,400 ($3.59 million)	¥1,828,542,300 ($16.0 million)
4	3	March 26-27	¥270,888,500 ($2.4 million)	¥2,552,345,400 ($22.6 million)
5	2	April 2-3	¥234,597,000 ($2.1 million)	¥3,382,985,800 ($30.1 million)
6	3	April 9-10	¥115,511,200 ($1.1 million)	¥3,778,527,800 ($33.8 million)
7	5	April 16-17	¥77,127,700 ($709,000)	¥3,884,690,900 ($34.8 million)
8	11	April 23-24	¥35,000,000 ($305,000)	¥3,930,000,000 ($35.2 million)
9	13	April 30-May 01	¥44,000,000 ($404,000)	¥3,980,000,000 ($35.5 million)
10	15	May 7-8	¥55,000,000 ($505,000)	¥4,050,000,000 ($36.1 million)
11	25	May 14-15	¥14,000,000 ($102,000)	¥4,070,000,000 ($36.3 million)
FINAL TOTAL				?

This film ran in theatres from March 5 - May 15 (72 days) in theatres of Japan.

This film became the highest grossing film in the Doraemon film franchise grossing ¥4.07 billion (except Stand by Me Doraemon which is not considered in March releases) by beating the 33rd installment, Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum which grossed ¥3.98 billion. Its final total will be announced at the end of the year.

Extrernal links

• Official website (Japanese)