Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend

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Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend
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Japanese name
Kanji 映画 ドラえもん のび太と緑の巨人伝
Literal meaningDoraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend
Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn Eiga Doraemon Nobita to Midori no Kyojinden
Directed by Ayumu Watanabe
Written byNashiwa Kanarate
Produced byKyohito Arushin
Starring
Narrated bySutiyo Mutonabeti
CinematographyKatsuyoshi Kishi
Edited byToshihiko Kojima
Music byKan Sawada (Original music composer)
Te o Tsunagō by ayaka
Yume o Kanaete Doraemon by MAO
Production
company
Distributed by Toho
Release date
  • March 8, 2008 (2008-03-08)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office$31,684,949 [1]

Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend, [lower-alpha 1] also known as Doraemon, Nobita and the Green Planet, [3] is a 2008 Japanese animated science fantasy film that was released in Japan on 8 March 2008. It's the 28th Doraemon film.

Contents

The plot is based on the story in Doraemon manga volume 26 "Forest is living" and in volume 33 "Goodbye Ki-bō". This movie is not a remake, however, Ki-bō has appeared already in the 1992 film, Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds . The name Ki-bō comes from the words "Ki" (木) meaning tree, and "Bō" (坊) meaning boy. The word Ki-bō also comes from the word "Kibō" (希望), which means hope. The catch phrase of this movie is "僕らの希望が未来を動かす" (our hope moves the future), which Ki-bō's name can be referred to. Voices of Roku-chan and Moya-kun were done by anonymous children who were chosen.) .

The film was illustrated as manga in the February and March edition of CoroCoro Comic . Then it was released as the 25th film tankōbon. An action-adventure game was also released on March 6, 2008, two days before the release of the film, entitled, Nobita and the Green Giant Legend DS . [lower-alpha 2] This movie was ranked the 8th highest grossing Japanese animated movie.

Plot

Nobita's troubled about what to do with his zero test marks once again. A gust of wind scatters his test papers, and he falls into a garbage dump trying to gather them together again. There he finds a young withered tree that caught one of his papers and he decides to take it home. He tries to plant it in his garden but gets caught by his mother, who doesn't allow him to grow it.

Still wanting to keep it but not being allowed to grow, Doraemon comes up with the idea of making it come alive with a gadget he uses. Nobita names the little tree "Kibō" because all it can say is "ki". As the days pass, Nobita's parents also accept Kibō because he was a very smart boy who helped Nobita's mother whenever he was away. However, aliens from the Planet of Green decides to pass judgement claiming humans were destroying all the green on Earth. Nobita and his friends manage to escape by coincident and arrive at their planet. They are warmly welcomed to their city of Green Pier but also learn of what they are doing to their planet.

Unfortunately, with all his gadgets borrowed by Dorami, there was little Doraemon could do. They manage to escape and come across Princess Rire who tricks them into thinking she was leading them home but along the way, learns that what her adviser was about to do was wrong. Eventually with the help of the alien planet's Elder they manage to return to Earth which was already invaded. Fortunately the time watch Doraemon had dropped had frozen life on Earth giving them a chance to save everyone. The aliens try to summon their giant using Kibō to wipe out all humans despite the Elder's warnings and the plan backfires on them.

But with Nobita's persistence, he wakes up Kibō and everything is restored as the Elder sacrifices himself. Princess Rire announces to her people that they will watch Earth for the time being while Kibō decides to travel around space to learn more and become like the Elder. Nobita and his friends say goodbye to Kibō and go home. Back at Nobita's home, Nobita's mother calls to him and Doraemon to come down for dinner, and one can see Kibo's shoe beside Nobita's shoe.

Music

Cast

CharacterJapanese voice actor
Doraemon Wasabi Mizuta
Nobita Nobi Megumi Ōhara
Suneo Honekawa Tomokazu Seki
Shizuka Minamoto Yumi Kakazu
Takeshi Goda Subaru Kimura
Dorami Chiaki
Princess Lire Maki Horikita
Ki-BoTakuya Yoshikoshi
Queen Remu Maki Horikita
Shiraa Chikao Ōtsuka
JiiYuji Miyake
ParunaTeppei Arita
Roku-chanYoko Tsuchiya
Moya-kunJinbei Watanabe
Nobita's Mom Kotono Mitsuishi
Nobita's Dad Yasunori Matsumoto
DekisugiShihoko Hagino
MountainKotomi Ishida
SeedlingUeno Ibuki
Mountain's Father Junichi Sugawara
Mountain's Mother Maru Tamari
Announcer Hidenari Ugaki
Soldiers Naomi Kusumi
Yasuhiro Takato
Fumihiko Goto
Lady–in–Waiting Tomoe Sakuragawa
Girl watering cans Tamaki Matsumoto
CongressmenAkira Chiba
Daihare Kawashima
Masaya Matsuzaki
Nodera Niki
Yutaro Kobayashi
Kana Yamaguchi
Masashi Watanabe
ChildrenYuki Mizuguchi
Yuma Maruyama
Luke Namiki
Kei Okawa
Yuta Ueno
Nao Nakamura

Release

The film premiered in the theatres of Japan on 8 March 2008.

Reception

Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend grossed $31,684,949 at the box office. [1]

Nominations

In 2009, this film was nominated as the Animation of the Year.

Notes

  1. ↑ Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend [2] (映画 ドラえもん のび太と緑の巨人伝, Eiga Doraemon Nobita to Midori no Kyojinden)
  2. ↑ Nobita and the Green Giant Legend DS (ドラえもん のび太と緑の巨人伝 DS, Doraemon Nobita to Midori no Kyojinden DS)

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References

  1. 1 2 "Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend box office". Box Office Mojo. August 19, 2022. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
  2. ↑ English translation as shown on the official website for the 25th anniversary of the movie franchise.
  3. ↑ "LUK Internacional".
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