Stand By Me Doraemon (Japanese: STAND BY ME ドラえもん) is a 2014 Japanese 3D computer animated anthology film based on the Doraemon manga series and directed by Takashi Yamazaki and Ryūichi Yagi. It was first released on August 8, 2014 in Japan. Bang Zoom! Entertainment premiered an English-dubbed version of the film at the Tokyo International Film Festival on October 24, and in Catalonia at the La festa dels súpers 2014 in October 25-26. Another English dub was shown in cinemas in the Philippines. Stand by Me Doraemon has been released in 59 countries overall.
Nobita Nobi is a fifth grader who constantly gets failing grades in his subjects due to his laziness and is always bullied by his classmates, Suneo Honekawa and Takeshi "Gian" Goda. Sewashi, his great-great grandson from the 22nd century, travels to Nobita's timeline after observing this while bringing along Doraemon. Sewashi reveals that if Nobita keeps up his act, the future is doomed. He would marry Gian's sister Jaiko, have his private company burned down, and will be left with a great debt. To circumvent this, he orders a reluctant Doraemon to help Nobita, modifying his nose to prevent him from returning to the future unless he is successful in his task, much to his chagrin.
All efforts of Doraemon & Nobita come to an epic failure
Forced to remain in the past, Doraemon introduces his gadgets to help Nobita which helps him immensely. Though Doraemon warns Nobita not to be too dependent on his gadgets, he asks Doraemon to help him woo his crush, Shizuka Minamoto, whom Doraemon reveals as Nobita's future wife should the future be modified. However, all his efforts end up making Shizuka becoming closer to ace student, Hidetoshi Dekisugi. Nobita's attempt to be equal with Dekisugi by studying harder is futile and he decides to let go of Shizuka to make her happier, though his attempts (such as getting her to slap him by flipping her skirt to reveal her underwear) inadvertently caused Shizuka to believe he might commit suicide. She arrives at the Nobi's residence and resists the disgust irradiated from a potion that poisoned by Nobita to help him, to which Doraemon reveals is the first step in Nobita and Shizuka's growing relationship to eventually becoming a couple.
Nobita saves Shizuka in a snow blizzard.
Upon seeing his older self rejecting Shizuka's invitation to mountain climbing, Nobita disguise himself as his older self to help Shizuka, who was stuck in a heavy blizzard. His attempts were unsuccessful, but this makes Shizuka feel that she has to accompany Nobita, saying "yes" before collapsing from cold she contracted from her earlier conversation with him. Forcing himself to remember the moment, the two are rescued by the original Nobita from the future, who claims to have recalled the memory and came to them. Nobita learns from his older self that Shizuka was answering to the latter's proposition to marry her which means that the two will indeed marry. After hearing that Shizuka's father has also accepted her daughter's spouse, Nobita and Doraemon return back to the present timeline.
"I won, by myself. Now you won't have to worry about me" ~ Nobita to Doraemon
As Nobita's future has changed for the better, Doraemon's programming commands him to return back to the future in 48 hours. Noticing that Doraemon has a hard time to leave due to his concern for Nobita, Nobita confronts and has a brutal fight with Gian to prove that he is able to defend himself without Doraemon. Gian manages to severely beat Nobita, who refuses to give up, resulting in Gian retreating after getting tired of fighting. Doraemon, concerned that Nobita is missing, leaves the house and ends up finding him bruised. Doraemon tearfully takes Nobita home before leaving in peace the next day, though not before leaving a box resembling himself, referred to as a last-minute solution. During April Fools, Nobita is pranked by Suneo by believing a tsuchinoko was in one of the pipes but a dog comes out and attacks him and tricked by Gian into believing that Doraemon has returned. Enraged, he later opens the box and drinks the potion contained within. Now capable of materializing the opposing consequences of all his statements, he curses Suneo and Gian. The dog who has bitten him before viciously attacks Suneo, who flees in terror, while Gian is brutalized by his enraged mother, completing Nobita's retribution. He returns to his place, lamenting Doraemon's premature departure while ignoring Tamako, unaware that the potion is still in effect. The items in his room wobbles and, as he opens the door, he finds a happy Doraemon appearing from the drawer again, who claims that he regained permission to remain with Nobita, much to his own confusion. Noticing that Nobita drank his potion, Doraemon correctly concludes the eventual cause of his return. The two hug and cry in joy as the film ends, intermingled with a hilarious remix of insults due to the potion's effect still being active.
An angry Sensei reprimands Nobita for various reasons
A worried Sensei reprimands Nobita for failing the exam
Shizuka spotted Nobita passing by on the road before he ran away from her.
Shizuka spotted Nobita hanging out in the fields before he ran away from her.
Shizuka's unnamed mother is the one who receive Nobita's comics.
Shizuka's father Yoshio Minamoto is the one who receive Nobita's comic books.
Shizuka did not have any other reactions to Nobita lifting her skirt, aside from slapping him. (Manga, Anime 1979 and 2005, and Second Version of Anime 2005)
Shizuka slaps him first before running away (Manga, Anime 1979 and 2005)
Shizuka simply runs away. (Second Version of Anime 2005)
Shizuka screamed and held her skirt down in embarrassment when her underwear was revealed in public, then slaps him before walking off. She stops right after he disappears from the screen and recalls his eyes closed, becoming concerned and suspicious over his actual purpose.
The Bug Off was medicine tablet (Manga and Anime 2005)
Suneo tricks Nobita into believing about Tsuchinoko, but when Nobita use the stick to find it in the pipe in the Open Lot the dog appears and began chasing Nobita. (Manga and Anime 2005)
Suneo disguises himself as Doraemon and is part of Gian's jokes (Anime 1979)
Suneo tricks Nobita into believing about Tsuchinoko, but when Nobita use the stick to find it in the pipe in the Open Lot the dog appears and attack Nobita, but the dog bites Nobita's shorts instead.
Gian, Suneo and Shizuka do not appear at the end (Manga and Anime 2005)
Gian, Suneo and Shizuka appear to apologize to Nobita after his arrival.
After the credits, Gian, Suneo and Shizuka appear to celebrate the return of Doraemon.
Additional Scenes[]
Goodbye, Shizuka:
Nobita is walking home depressed with Doraemon instead of being alone, and the latter managed to take a peek at his grades.
Doraemon was shown watching Nobita attempting to push Shizuka away at a vantage point, explaining his later remarks on Nobita.
Shizuka held her skirt down (after Nobita flipped it) so no one will see her underwear.
Shizuka flashes back to Nobita flipping her skirt with his eyes shut and figures something wrong.
Tamako stops running away in confusion after the potion's effect expires.
Doraemon quickly returns to the house, witnessing Shizuka sobbing over Nobita instead of heading back much later off-screen.
Romance In Snowy Mountain:
Future Nobita arrives at the snowy mountain to rescue Shizuka and Present Nobita, instead of still remaining at his place, and as a result the two Nobitas never met.
Present Nobita tells Future Nobita Shizuka's answer to his question, much to both present and future Nobita's joy.
An English version of this movie was commissioned by TV Asahi and produced by Bang Zoom! Entertainment, the same company that made the English dub that aired on Disney XD US. It premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival in 2014. It resurfaced on the Japanese iTunes Store in 2015, seven years after being produced the dub finally had a proper North American release on Netlifx on December 24, 2021.
As for the dub itself, it's completely uncut with no edits whatsoever. Even the parts where Shizuka was taking a bath and where her underwear was revealed on-screen has not been cut out. The only major dialogue difference is that Nobita's test in the "Goodbye Shizuka" segment is said to be a spelling test rather than a Japanese test. Despite this, all Japanese text has been kept intact.
Names in other languages[]
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Albanian
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Qëndro pranë meje Doraemon! Stay close to me Doraemon!
Chinese Chinese
STAND BY ME 哆啦A夢(Taiwan)/哆啦A梦：伴我同行(mainland China) Stand By Me Doraemon (Taiwan)/Doraemon: Walk with Me (mainland China) STAND BY ME Duō La A Mèng(Taiwan)/Duō La A Mèng:Bàn Wǒ Tóng Xíng(mainland China)
Italian Italian
Doraemon - Il film Doraemon - The Movie
Spanish Spanish
Stand by Me Doraemon/Quédate conmigo, Doraemon Stay With Me, Doraemon
Thai Thai
STAND BY ME: โดราเอมอน เพื่อนกันตลอดไป STAND BY ME: Doraemon Friends Forever
Official trailers[]
［STAND BY ME ドラえもん］プロモーション映像
Trailer 1
［STAND BY ME ドラえもん］特報1
Trailer 2
［STAND BY ME ドラえもん］予告篇１
Trailer 3
［STAND BY ME ドラえもん］予告篇３
Trailer 4
STAND BY ME- โดราเอมอน เพื่อนกันตลอดไป (Official Trailer - 1 thai Trailer)
Though the beginning is a recreation of "All the Way From the Country of the Future", it also has elements of "Doraemon Came Out!", the pilot episode for the 1973 anime:
Both the plot and movie start by displaying Nobita's flaws; being late for school is a flaw present in both.
Nobita meets Sewashi and Doraemon at night instead of day.
There is an appearance of the logos of Panasonic and Toyota in the movie, when Doraemon and Nobita travelled to Future.
Stand by Me Doraemon has been released in 60 countries.
This is the only Doraemon movie that released in Persian on Iran.
However, Romance in the Snowy Mountain and The Night before Nobita's Wedding were somewhat merged.
This is the first film that does not have Nobita's name in the title.
In Doraemon's bedroom, there was a poster of a girl. The girl appears to be Sumire Hoshino, a character from Perman with brown hair. However, she has black hair in the movie.
In the movie, it was revealed that Shizuka & Nobita are married on October 24 and they got engaged 14 years before that.
In the future, Nobita's car has a nameplate of 09-03, referring to Doraemon's birthday.
This is the first Doraemon feature film to use CGI.
This is the first and so far, only Doraemon feature film that does not feature any new characters, instead reusing all existing ones.
In the English version prepared for the Filipino market, the cast is different from the US English dub cast.
The English version with the US cast shown at the Tokyo International film festival and available on iTunes Japan was also released with subtitles for the Arabic market.
According to statistics, 88.4% of the audiences cried; 47% were male while 53% were female.
The post movie credits are accompanied by fake outtakes. Here are some screenshots:
Hidetoshi Dekisugi sitting on a portal ring.
Gian reading a comic with the film's title
In 2015, an English subtitled version appeared on Delta Airlines flights with the Delta Studio feature. This subtitled version used the Bang! Zoom dub names for the characters, except Sue, who was accidentally called Shizuka, her original Japanese name, throughout the entire film.
Rira's review for the movie
An all-female J-pop group, AKB48 reviewed the movie. 49 of the members will rate the movie from 1-5. Though majority of the members give the movie 5 Ratings, Miyazato Rira gave the movie 0 points out of 5.
This is the English translation of Miyazato Rira's review: "I always watch Doraemon on TV animation, so when I watched it in 3D with CG, I was surprised to how real it was. I thought Doraemon was back in the 22nd Century, but I am glad to see him again."
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