The defence The Sentimental Softie
“Its refusal to behave is the point.”
The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan
Animation · Adventure · Fantasy · 2016
Doraemon and his friends travel to ancient Japan where they meet Kukuru. When Kukuru tells them that his tribe has been enslaved by Gigazombie, Doraemon decides to help him.
Movie details
Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan
2016 Animation · Adventure · Fantasy 1h 44m
Critical arithmetic
One number, for now.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
TMDB
6.8 / 10
Community rating
Doraemon and his friends travel to ancient Japan where they meet Kukuru. When Kukuru tells them that his tribe has been enslaved by Gigazombie, Doraemon decides to help him.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan?
For the defence
The Sentimental Softie
“You came to feel something, and you will.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Popcorn Loyalist
“Big screen, big feelings, no apologies.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights
Animation · 1991
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Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur
Animation · 2020
Nobita accidentally finds a fossil dinosaur egg mixed with rocks in the dinosaur fossil exhibition site that he had visited before. He returns it to its original state with the 'time blanket'.
Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure Into the Underworld - The Seven Magic Users
Family · 2007
Nobita wishes the world into a magic-reliant one with Doraemon's Moshimo-Box, and, along with his friends, must stop an asteroid from hitting the planet with help from a sorcerer-in-training.
Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars
Animation · 1985
As Nobita, Gian, Shizuka, and Suneo are making their own space movie, a fleeing bug-sized alien president makes his way to Earth, and needs the help of the kids and Doraemon to stop an oppressive dictatorship threatening his democracy.
Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi
Animation · 2017
Doraemon and Nobita discover a mysterious golden ring far beneath the ice in Antarctica, leading them to uncover an ancient, ruined city.
Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas
Animation · 1998
Nobita coaxes his friends to join him for a treasure hunt but an eerie event transports them to the past. However, their hunt for treasure is not easy as they come face-to-face with pirates.
Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life
Family · 2009
When the creator of the world, Arceus, comes to pass judgement on humanity for the theft of the legendary Jewel of Life, Ash and his friends are sent back in time to possibly reverse the events that led to Arceus' vendetta.
Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes
Comedy · 2015
Nobita and friends decide to make a movie inspired by the space adventures of their heroes, but their fiction turns into a reality.
Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
Animation · 2006
After bringing a fossilized egg back to life with the Time Cloth, Nobita finds himself the owner of a baby dinosaur. Everything is fine until it grows up. Nobita and friends use Doraemon's time machine to return it back to its own time.
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Cast & crew
Directed by
Shinnosuke Yakuwa
Written by
Shinnosuke Yakuwa
Wasabi Mizuta
Doraemon (voice)
Megumi Oohara
Nobita (voice)
Yumi Kakazu
Shizuka (voice)
Tomokazu Seki
Suneo (voice)
Subaru Kimura
Gian (voice)
Kotono Mitsuishi
Tamako Nobi (voice)
Yasunori Matsumoto
Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
Court is in session
Put Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist
“Oddness is not depth.”
A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.