Stand by Me Doraemon
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| Kanji | STAND BY ME ドラえもん |
| Literal meaning | Stand By Me Doraemon |
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| Screenplay by | Takashi Yamazaki |
| Based on | Doraemon by Fujiko F. Fujio |
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| Music by | Naoki Sato |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | $183.4 million |
Stand by Me Doraemon (Japanese: STAND BY ME ドラえもん, Hepburn: Sutando Bai Mī Doraemon) is a 2014 Japanese animated science fiction comedy-drama film based on the Doraemon manga series and directed by Ryūichi Yagi and Takashi Yamazaki. It was released on 8 August 2014. It is the highest-grossing film of the Doraemon franchise. Bang Zoom! Entertainment premiered an English-dubbed version of the film at the Tokyo International Film Festival on 24 October 2014.
Stand by Me Doraemon was commercially successful in Japan. It was number one on the box office charts for five consecutive weeks and was the second highest-grossing animated film of 2014 in Japan, with a box office total of $183.4 million, behind Disney's Frozen. In February 2015, the film won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year at the 38th Japan Academy Prize.
A sequel was released on 20 November 2020 in Japan. It was originally planned to be released on August 7, 2020, in time for Nobita Nobi's birthday. However, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur film was released instead and the film was delayed until November 20, 2020.
The film is primarily based on the first chapter of the manga "All the Way From the Future", the 1973 chapter "Mountain Rescue", the 1980 chapter "Goodbye Shizuka", the 1984 chapter "Imprinting Shizuka", the 1998 short film "Doraemon Comes Back" and the 1999 short film "Doraemon: Nobita's Night Before a Wedding", though several other chapters are briefly brought up as well.