Stand by Me Doraemon

Stand by Me Doraemon (Japanese: STAND BY ME ドラえもん , Hepburn: Sutando Bai Mī Doraemon ) is a 2014 Japanese 3D computer-animated science fiction comedy drama film based on the Doraemon manga series and directed by Ryūichi Yagi and Takashi Yamazaki.[2] It was released on 8 August 2014.[3][4] 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.[5] The English version features the cast of the Disney XD show Doraemon: Gadget Cat From the Future.[citation needed ] A different English version with local actors was distributed by Multivision Pictures Entertainment and VIVA International Pictures for a Filipino audience in 2015. It is therefore the first of 2 Doraemon films to be dubbed into English.

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 Japanese anime film of 2014 in Japan, with a box office total of $183.4 million, behind Disney's Frozen.[6][7][8] In February 2015, the film won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year at the 38th Japan Academy Prize.[9]

A sequel was released on 20 November 2020 in Japan.[10]