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Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs

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Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs[1]
Japanese Release Poster
Directed byTsutomu Shibayama
Based onDoraemon's Long Tales: Noby and the Dino Knights
by Fujiko F. Fujio
Starring
CinematographyAkio Sayito
Edited by
  • Kazuo Inoue
  • Yuko Watase
Music byShunsuke Kikuchi
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 14 March 1987 (1987-03-14)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office$23.4 million[2]

Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs[3] (ドラえもん のび太と竜の騎士, Doraemon Nobita to Ryū no Kishi) is an 1987 Japanese animated epic science fiction film and the eighth feature-length Doraemon film which premiered on March 14, 1987 in Japan, based on the eighth volume of the same name of the Doraemon Long Stories series. It was the highest-grossing animated film of the year 1987.

Plot

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When Nobita argues that dinosaurs still exist, Suneo then disproves him while Gian and Shizuka take his side. He asks Doraemon for help but later gets convinced by Doraemon's gadget that dinosaurs are extinct when he asked whether there are dinosaurs alive on earth. Meanwhile, he has to find a place to hide his test papers from his Mom. While playing with Suneo's remote control airplane, Gian loses control of it and it falls into a river. After Gian flees, Suneo sees a huge Barosaurus in the river. Fearful, he meets Doraemon and Nobita, but then runs away. Nobita and Doraemon go to the hill behind their school and Doraemon finds a tunnel using the Anywhere Hole. At night, Suneo again spots the same Barosaurus in his yard, but thinks he is mentally ill.

The next day, Nobita takes everyone to the tunnel. Suneo comes out of an exit and spots a herd of Guaibasaurus, but no one believes him. The day after that they again go underground and play while Suneo comes with a camera and manages to record his plane that had crashed into the river earlier. Frightened, he runs in a cave, becomes lost and gets caught by a knight on a Gallimimus. The others have to hurry home as Gian's and Nobita's moms are furious after realizing they had made up an excuse to leave their house, leaving the Anywhere Hole in the empty lot.

The day later, the Anywhere Hole is virtually destroyed by a truck, preventing them from going underground again. Doraemon goes to everyone to apologize and finds that Suneo still hadn't returned home. Nobita and Doraemon watch Suneo's recordings from his camera that they recovered and discover that his plane is still flying in there. Everyone at night go to the river and find another entrance to an underworld where they are caught by kappas, who kill a ferocious Teratophoneus. They are saved by Banhou, who tells them that Suneo is in their capital. They go to the capital and find Suneo. Banhou tells them that their memories will be erased once they are allowed to leave.

While Banhou has to go for training, he asks Roo, his sister, to show everyone the underworld, but warns them that they must not go to a strictly forbidden place. They go to a museum, only to find that all of the underworld humans evolved from a Staurikosaurus, and that something or someone is behind the extinction of that animal. They also see a perfectly rectangular area in the underworld. The underworld's inhabitants are unaware of the existence of the true sky, sun and stars.

While riding a sail-lacking, plant-eating Concavenator, Nobita is accidentally taken to the forbidden building, where he finds a large ship and overhears plans to get a surface of Earth back from prehistoric Ice Age villains. Nobita comes back to warn everyone and they run away. While attempting to flee from Banhou's ship, they get caught once again by kappas, but Banhou's ship comes and saves them.

The ship turns out to be a time machine which takes them to the Cretaceous era, revealing that the underworld people thought extraterrestrials were responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. Nobita and everyone again flee from ship and make a camp near the ship. Shizuka spots a comet approaching since they came there. Knights attack their base, while the comet, which they realize is the asteroid which killed off most of the dinosaurs, hits Planet Earth, causing a huge tsunami.

The knights rush to the ship which is able to hide underground, while Doraemon blasts a tunnel underground to hide from the tsunami. They realize that they made the same large rectangular place which is the size of the island of Hokkaido as seen in the map of the underworld. After the water is no longer above them, all of them come out and go back to the surface. Doraemon explains that an asteroid caused the evil death of the majority of plants and plankton. Animals which are dependent on plants and other animals suffered while mammals hibernated to remain alive. The underworld people then think it was God's that dinosaurs became extinct. Doraemon then helps them to make the underground world they reside in and to take all remaining dinosaurs there. The dinosaurs include a Teratophoneus, a herd of Mamenchisaurus, a Torvosaurus, a Gryposaurus, an Alectrosaurus, a Triceratops, a Rugops, a Compsognathus, an Australovenator, an Iguanodon and a Diamantinasaurus.

The film ends with the main characters being treated as heroes and sent to the surface without erasing their memories and their stuff stuck underground being sent back to them.

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Cast

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An English version produced and released exclusively in Malaysia by Speedy Video, features an unknown voice cast.[4]

Character Voice
Doraemon Nobuyo Ōyama
Nobita Nobi Noriko Ohara
Shizuka Minamoto Michiko Nomura
Suneo Honekawa Kaneta Kimotsuki
Jian Kazuya Tatekabe
Nobita's Mama Sachiko Chijimatsu
Jian's Mama Kazuyo Aoki
Suneo's Mama Yoshino Ohtori
Banho Hideyuki Hori
Low Chie Koujiro
Head Priest Chikao Ohtsuka
Army Commander Nobuo Tanaka
King of France Kinshiro Iwao
Manager Masayuki Sato
Nanja Group Yonehiko Kitagawa
Isamu Tanonaka
Masashi Hironaka
Ryo Horikawa
Hiroyuki Shibamoto
Tsutomu Kashiwakura
Young Boy Youko Ogai

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Known in India as Doraemon Movie: Dinosaur Yoddhha.
  2. ^ 邦画興行収入ランキング. SF MOVIE DataBank (in Japanese). General Works. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  3. ^ English translation as shown on an official website for the 25th anniversary of the movie franchise.
  4. ^ Malaysian English Dub Doraemon Archived 2019-05-24 at the Wayback Machine - The Lost Media Wiki
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