Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil
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Directed by | Tsutomu Shibayama |
Written by | Fujiko Fujio |
Based on | Doraemon's Long Tales: Noby in Devilfish Castle by Fujiko Fujio |
Produced by | Soichi Besso Tetsuo Kanno |
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Edited by | Kazuo Inoue Noriko Tsurumaki |
Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
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Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 95 minutes (1h 35m) |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | $16.5 million[1] |
Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil[2] (ドラえもん のび太の海底鬼岩城, Doraemon Nobita no Kaiteiki Ganjō) is the fourth Doraemon film, released on March 12, 1983 in Japan. Directed by Tsutomu Shibayama, the film is based on the Western myth of Atlantis, the lost city. Its remake is scheduled for a 2022 release. The remake movie is currently under development in Shin-Ei Animation.
Plot[]
The plot happens when the Bermuda Triangle is on the news. Meanwhile, Doraemon and friends go camping after helping Nobita to finish his homework. They use an adaptation light to survive underwater, and an underwater buggy to commute. This buggy has feelings and likes Shizuka. Doraemon takes out a big tent that provides all their needs, and that night they have a barbecue, with Gian and Suneo wanting to go the Atlantic but disallowed by Doraemon. That night, Gian and Suneo take Buggy and travel through the Atlantic Ocean, trying to find a treasure ship. They lose consciousness, and their friends, who have been looking for them, think they're dead, but they wake up soon. They find the ship and Nobita, who is outside, sees a sea horse. Along the way, they discover that the environment gun that Doraemon used to protect them is running out of energy leaving them vulnerable to the sea. They are rescued by some marine creatures. Nobita and his friends are later captured by these creatures, revealed to be inhabinats of the underwater kingdom of Mu. It is revealed that another undersea kingdom, Atlantis, now controlled by robots, was about to destroy the Earth with nuclear weapons after mistaking a volcano eruption for an invasion. With the help of a young boy from Mu, Nobita and his friends attempt to stop the robots, but are all captured. However, when things are at their grimmest, Buggy sacrifices itself to destroy the computer that controlled all the robots and nuclear weapons. After returning to Mu, Doraemon and his friends are hailed as heroes before returning home.
Cast[]
Character | Voice |
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Doraemon | Nobuyo Ōyama |
Nobita Nobi | Noriko Ohara |
Shizuka Minamoto | Michiko Nomura |
Takeshi "Gian" Goda | Kazuya Tatekabe |
Suneo Honekawa | Kaneta Kimotsuki |
Eru | Michie Kita |
Underwater Buggy | Yūji Mitsuya |
Mu Prime Minister | Teiji Ōmiya |
Poseidon | Kōsei Tomita |
Announcer | Hozumi Gōda |
Mu Patrolling Crew | Fumio Matsuoka Masaharu Satō Kōji Totani Kōzō Shioya Kōichi Hashimoto |
Nobita's Mom | Sachiko Chijimatsu |
Nobita's Papa | Masayuki Sato |
Shizuka's Mom | Masako Matsubara |
Suneo's Mom | Yoshino Ohtori |
Gian's Mom | Kazuyo Aoki |
Release[]
The film was released in Japan on March 12, 1983.
References[]
- ^ "邦画興行収入ランキング". SF MOVIE DataBank. General Works. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
- ^ English translation as shown on the official website for the 25th anniversary of the movie franchise, based on the fourth volume of the same name of the Doraemon Long Stories series.
External links[]
- JMDB entry (in Japanese)
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil at IMDb
- Anime News Network entry
- 1983 films
- Japanese-language films
- Films directed by Tsutomu Shibayama
- 1983 anime films
- Doraemon films
- Films scored by Shunsuke Kikuchi
- Films set in Atlantis
- Japanese films
- Anime film stubs