Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur

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Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Hiroshi Fukutomi
Written by	Fujiko F. Fujio Seiji Matsuoka[1]
Based on	Doraemon's Long Tales: Noby's Dinosaur by Fujiko F. Fujio
Produced by	Sankichiro Kusube Soichi Bessho[1]
Starring	Nobuyo Ōyama Noriko Ohara Michiko Nomura Kaneta Kimotsuki Kazuya Tatekabe
Cinematography	Katsuji Misawa[1]
Edited by	Kazuo Inoue Seiji Morita
Music by	Shunsuke Kikuchi[1]
Production companies	Shin-Ei Animation Asatsu
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	March 15, 1980 (1980-03-15)
Running time	100 minutes [1]
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	$25 million[2]

Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur^[3] (ドラえもん のび太の恐竜, Doraemon – Nobita no Kyōryū) is a 1980 Japanese animated film based on the manga series Doraemon,^[1] particularly the first volume of the same name of the Doraemon Long Stories series. The film premiered on 15 March 1980 in Japan. It's the first feature-length Doraemon film.^[1]

Plot[]

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Suneo shows a fossil of a dinosaur claw to everyone except Nobita. Being angry, Nobita claims he will be able to find a living dinosaur. As Doraemon refuses to help him, he digs on a hillside, but instead earns punishment from a landlord nearby who forces him to unearth a hole in the ground. He finds an egg-shaped stone underneath and quickly uses a time wrap to return it to its former form, and after warming it, the egg hatches to reveal a plesiosaur (Futabasaurus), who is subsequently named Piisuke by Nobita. Instead of immediately showing it to the others, Nobita waits for it to grow while making a deal with others. As Piisuke grows too large, Nobita and Doraemon hide him in the nearby lake and is in danger of being found, Doraemon and Nobita transport him to 100 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period. They are attacked by a mysterious assailant who previously tried to make a deal with Nobita to sell Piisuke, though they manage to escape. Left with no proof, Nobita instead shows them Piisuke through a television monitor, but realizes that he and Doraemon had unknowingly transported Piisuke to the North American shore after the time machine was attacked by the assailant. They and the others decide to go there, but the time machine is overloaded and crashes off.

The group lands on the North American shore and finds Piisuke, but the time machine is broken and must be taken back to Nobita's desk in faraway Japan if they want to go back to the present time. At night, while having dinner, Gian starts singing songs and a huge Tyrannosaurus appears from the forests. Doraemon uses his Momotaro Dango (Dumplings) to tame it and orders him to go back and the group decided to travel across the land connecting North America and Asia to return home. In their way, they meet with various dinosaur species who either help or hinder their progress, such as Ornithomimus and Apatosaurus. At a cliff, they are attacked by a pack of Pteranodon, who break their bamboocopters. They are saved by several mysterious assailants, who reveal they are dinosaur hunters working for a fossil collector named Dollmanstein from the 24th century. They offer to return them back home in exchange for selling Piisuke. Refusing the deal, the group set a lure for the hunters by making mud statues of them and placing them in cars, while they escape across a river. However, they are eventually spotted and separated, with Gian, Suneo, and Shizuka captured by the hunters.

Doraemon and Nobita find the hunters' quarter at downstream where Gian, Suneo, and Shizuka are used as baits for a Tyrannosaurus. The hunters demand that they hand over Piisuke in exchange for their lives, but the Tyrannosaurus is revealed to be the one they had previously used a Momotaro Dango for, and the group uses it to attack the hunters. The hunters are subsequently captured and imprisoned by the Future Time Patrols. Piisuke is transported to his homeland, the Late Cretaceous Japan, while Nobita and his friends bid it farewell and go back to the present day.

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Release[]

Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur was released in Japan on 15 March 1980, where it was distributed by Toho.^[1] The film grossed ¥2.64 billion in Japan and was the fifth highest-grossing Japanese film of the year, and the highest-grossing animated film.^[4] The film was followed by the sequel Doraemon: The Records of Nobita, Spaceblazer in 1981.^[1]

A remake of the film was remade as Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 and released in 2006.^[1] A sequel titled Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur

Home media[]

The film was first released on Laserdisc in Japan on October 18, 1989.^[5]

The film was released on VHS by Shogakukan in December 1991.^[6] It was later re-released on VHS by Pony Canyon on May 17, 1996.^[7] Pony Canyon eventually released the film on DVD on March 14, 2001.^[8] The company later re-released the film on DVD on September 3, 2010.^[9]

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External links[]

• Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur (film) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia