Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 (映画ドラえもん のび太の恐竜2006, Doraemon: Nobita no Kyōryū 2006), also known as Doraemon: The Movie 2006 and Doraemon and the Little Dinosaur, is a 2006 Japanese animated science fiction adventure film which is a remake of the first, 1980, Doraemon film Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur. The new film was released theatrically in Japan on 4 March 2006. It's the 26th Doraemon film. The film got a private screening with English subtitles in Washington, D.C., on 14 November 2008, making it the first time Doraemon made an appearance in the US. The movie grossed over 3.28 billion yen.[1]
| Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 | |||||
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| Kanji | 映画ドラえもん のび太の恐竜2006 | ||||
| Literal meaning | Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 | ||||
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| Directed by | Ayumu Watanabe | ||||
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| Story by | Fujiko F. Fujio | ||||
| Based on | Doraemon's Long Tales: Noby's Dinosaur by Fujiko F. Fujio | ||||
| Produced by | Shin-Ei Animation | ||||
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| Edited by | Hajime Okayasu | ||||
| Music by | Kan Sawada | ||||
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| Distributed by | Toho | ||||
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Running time | 107 minutes | ||||
| Country | Japan | ||||
| Language | Japanese | ||||
| Box office | $34.7 million | ||||
This movie was ranked 6th highest-grossing movie and the highest grossing animated movie in 2006 of Japan and the United States. It is the first Doraemon film to considered part of the 2005 series and to star the current voice cast.
Plot
editSuneo shows everyone a fossilized claw of a Tyrannosaurus, and Nobita is angry that he doesn't get a look. Nobita claims that he will be able to find a living dinosaur. Panicking, Nobita researches dinosaurs and starts digging in a hill, but then, the landlord forces him to dig a hole.
Nobita unearths an egg fossil. Using the time-wrap, he returns it to its original form and plans to hatch it. A young Futabasaurus comes out of it, and Nobita decides to name him Piisuke. Nobita doesn't show it to Gian and Suneo due to Piisuke being too small and says he would have to eat spaghetti through his nose if he lies. Meanwhile, Nobita and Piisuke form a strong bond between them with Nobita working very hard to make sure Piisuke is well looked after and grows attached.
Piisuke grows too big to stay in Nobita's closet and has to be moved to a lake. However, the next day when Nobita goes to visit him he hears that Piisuke was seen and when he gets to the lake it's flooded with reporters and is unable to take him home. Nobita is then visited by a dinosaur hunter from the 24th century who wanted to purchase Piisuke but flees soon after.
When night comes, Nobita takes Piisuke away after Doraemon distracts all who gathered there. He escapes with Piisuke and he and Doraemon use the time machine to take Piisuke back to the Late Cretaceous. On the way there however the time machine is attacked by the dinosaur hunter from before who intend to capture Piisuke no matter what. Nobita, Doraemon and Piisuke manage to escape but the time machine is damaged. They leave Piisuke in prehistoric times and return home with Nobita crying the entire way.
Gian, Shizuka and Suneo do not believe that Nobita has raised a dinosaur and he angrily uses the Time TV. However, they see Piisuke being bullied by sharp-toothed Elasmosaurus. Doraemon says because, while on the time machine, they have accidentally left Piisuke in Hell Creek instead of Japan. Nobita and Doraemon decide to head back with the others tagging along as well.
Nobita finds Piisuke and his friends apologize for not believing him, they then plan to take Piisuke back to modern times and then to Cretaceous Japan. Doraemon who sees the time machine destroyed suggests they stay while he tries to fix it. However, when they're attacked by a Tyrannosaurus and the kids want to go home, Doraemon admits that the time machine is broken.
At first, the kids are scared, but Doraemon says they can use the bamboo-copters to go to Japan to take Piisuke back to the end of the Cretaceous period, and they set off on a long journey to do so, exploring the prehistoric world as they go. They then befriend a flock of Ornithomimus, who give them a ride before dropping them off at a lake. There, the group encounter a herd of Alamosaurus and are once again attacked by a Tyrannosaurus, but they tame it with the dumplings.
Then, after getting chased by a flock of Quetzalcoatlus, they are cornered by dinosaur hunters from the future, who had stalked them the whole way. They say they will consider it but plant a decoy and attempt to escape. Their plan is foiled, and Gian, Shizuka and Suneo get captured. Doraemon and Nobita rush to save them, and all five have to face being eaten by a ferocious Tyrannosaurus, but they realize that it was one of the tamed dinosaurs. The hunters are all defeated by a Triceratops, a Pachycephalosaurus and a Euoplocephalus. The Tyrannosaurus defeats the hunter's pet Spinosaurus.
The Time Police arrives on scene to discover the hunters in a cage, and the group gone. The five decides to walk to Japan by themselves and encounters the Time Police, who acknowledges their heroic actions with a salute. When they arrive, the group says their final goodbye to Piisuke and return to their own timeline.
Cast
edit| Character | Japanese voice actor |
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| Doraemon | Wasabi Mizuta |
| Nobita Nobi | Megumi Ōhara |
| Shizuka Minamoto | Yumi Kakazu |
| Takeshi Gouda Giant | Subaru Kimura |
| Suneo Honekawa | Tomokazu Seki |
| Piisuke | Ryunosuke Kamiki |
| Black Mask | Eiichiro Funakoshi |
| Dorumanstein | Kenji Utsumi |
| Tamako Nobi | Kotono Mitsuishi |
| Nobisuke Nobi | Yasunori Matsumoto |
| Suneo's Mother | Minami Takayama |
| Pregnant Woman | Masayo Kurata |
| Girls | Sumomo Momomori Tomoe Sakuragawa |
| Boys | Misato Fukuen Aya Yamashita |
| Divers | Funihiko Goto Yuki Shimowada Masaaki Koda |
| Time Patrol members | Sukima Switch |
| Minions | Naomi Kusumi Hidenari Ugaki Yasuhiro Takato Masafumi Kimura |
| Newscaster | Hitori Gekidan |
Music
edit- "Hug Shichao?" (ハグしちゃお?, Hagu shichao?) by Rimi Natsukawa
- "My Note" (ボクノート, Boku Nōto) by Sukima Switch
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Four Anime Among Top-10 Japanese Movies". Anime News Network. 2007-03-03. Retrieved 2013-09-19.