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Doraemon Comes Back

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Doraemon Comes Back
DVD cover of a release that includes The Doraemons: The Great Operating of Springing Insects! and Dorami-chan: Mini-Dora SOS!!!
Directed byAyumu Watanabe
Screenplay byNoboru Shiroyama
Based on
Doraemon
by Fujiko F. Fujio
Produced by
Starring
Edited byHajime Okayasu
Music byShunsuke Kikuchi
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • March 7, 1998 (1998-03-07) (Japan)
Running time
27 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office$32.1 million

Doraemon Comes Back (帰ってきたドラえもん, Kaettekita Doraemon) is a 1998 Japanese animated science fiction comedy-drama short film. It premiered in Japan on March 7, 1998 on a triple feature with The Doraemons: The Great Operating of Springing Insects! and Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas.[1] It won the 16th Golden Gross Award for Excellence (Silver Prize) at the 16th Golden Gross Awards.[2] It is largely an expanded version of the 1974 chapters "Goodbye Doraemon" and "Doraemon Comes Back".

Parts of Stand by Me Doraemon were largely based off of this short film.

Production

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The short film features significant additions and deviations from the original manga chapters, most notably that Shizuka, Dorami, and Nobita’s grandmother, characters who weren't featured in the original stories, were added in to play major roles.

Doraemon Comes Back is the first out of five in a series of Doraemon short films directed by Ayumu Watanabe that released from 1998 to 2002.[3]

The "Doraemon Moving Series", consisting of this work, Nobita's the Night Before A Wedding, A Grandmother's Recollections, Good Luck! Gian!!, and The Day When I Was Born, were all made by people who wanted to carry on the spirit and legacy of Doraemon series creator Fujiko F. Fujio after he died in 1996 by selecting to adapt stories from the manga.[4]

Ayumu Watanabe, director of Doraemon Comes Back, would go on to serve as director of the twenty-sixth Doraemon feature film, Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006, a remake of the first Doraemon feature film Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur.[4]

Cast

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Character Japanese voice actor
Doraemon Nobuyo Ōyama
Nobita Nobi Noriko Ohara
Takeshi "Gian" Gōda Kazuya Tatekabe
Suneo Honekawa Kaneta Kimotsuki
Shizuka Minamoto Michiko Nomura
Tamako Nobi Sachiko Chijimatsu
Nobisuke Nobi Yōsuke Naka
Mrs. Gōda Kazuyo Aoki
Clerk Seiko Tomoe
Child Yūko Satō
Dorami Keiko Yokozawa

Soundtrack

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Theme song

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"Blue Sky in the Pocket"
Lyrics: Hiroo Takada / Composition and Arrangement: Shunsuke Kikuchi / Vocals: Satoko Yamano

Insert song

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"Doraemon Comes Back (Suite)"
Featured as Track 21 on Disc 1 of the "Doraemon Sound Track History ~Shunsuke Kikuchi Music Collection~" album[5][6][7][8]

Release

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The short film was released in Japan on March 7, 1998.

It was screened theatrically in a triple feature with the nineteenth Doraemon feature-length film Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas and the Doraemons short film The Doraemons: The Great Operating of Springing Insects!.[9]

Reception

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Box office reception

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Because the short film was screened as a triple feature with The Doraemons: The Great Operating of Springing Insects! and Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas, it grossed ¥2.1 billion yen ($32.1 million) at the Japan box office.

Awards

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It received the 16th Golden Gross Award for Excellence (Silver Prize) at the 16th Golden Gross Awards[2]

Post-release

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Home media

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DVD

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  • "The Movie: Doraemon Comes Back / Dorami-chan: Mini-Dora SOS!!! / The Doraemons: The Great Operating of Springing Insects! (DVD, Shogakukan, EAIN: 4988104028693, ASIN: B00MDJV8KW, April 1, 2005)[10]
  • "The Movie: Dorami-chan: Mini-Dora SOS!!! / The Doraemons: The Great Operating of Springing Insects! / Doraemon Comes Back [Doraemon the Movie 30th Anniversary Limited Edition]" (DVD, Shogakukan, November 3, 2010)[11]
  • "DORAEMON THE MOVIE BOX 1998-2004+TWO" (DVD, Shogakukan, September 3, 2012)[12]

VHS

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  • "The Movie: Doraemon Comes Back / The Doraemons: The Great Operating of Springing Insects!" (VHS, Shogakukan, ASIN: B00005FTP0, March 1, 2000)[13]

Further reading

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Books

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  • "A Collection of Heartwarming Doraemon Classics: Doraemon Comes Back: Nobita's the Night Before A Wedding (This Is Animation)" (Nook, Shogakukan, ISBN 978-4091015501, October 1, 1999)

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ 帰ってきたドラえもん (1998) (in Japanese), eiga.com, Retrieved April 30, 2026.
  2. 1 2 過去のゴールデングロス賞 第16回ゴールデングロス賞受賞作品 (in Japanese). Japan Association of Theater Owners. Retrieved April 30, 2026.
  3. ↑ Shotaro Miya (July 29, 2022), “渡辺歩③ 大事なことはすべて『ドラえもん』から教わった” (in Japanese), Febri, Ichijinsha, Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  4. 1 2 Nobuyo Ōyama, "I Was Doraemon: 26 Years of Tears and Laughter" (『ぼく、ドラえもんでした。 涙と笑いの26年うちあけ話』) (in Japanese), Shogakukan, June 2006, page 169, ISBN 978-4-09-387654-4
  5. ↑ ドラえもん Sound Track History～菊池俊輔 音楽集～ (in Japanese), Amazon Japan, Retrieved April 30, 2026.
  6. ↑ Shunsuke Kikuchi – Doraemon Sound Track History 菊池俊輔音楽集 (in Japanese and English), Discogs, Retrieved April 30, 2026.
  7. ↑ DORAEMON SOUND TRACK HISTORY ~Shunsuke Kikuchi Music Collection~ (in Japanese and English), VGMdb the music of visual arts and games, Retrieved April 30, 2026.
  8. ↑ ドラえもん Sound Track History 〜菊池俊輔音楽集〜 (in Japanese), Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd, Retrieved April 30, 2026.
  9. ↑ 1998年配給収入10億円以上番組 (in Japanese), Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  10. ↑ 帰って来たドラえもん (in Japanese), suruga-ya.jp, Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  11. ↑ 映画ドラミちゃん ミニドラSOS!!!/ザ☆ドラえもんズ ムシムシぴょんぴょん大作戦!/帰ってきたドラえもん【映画ドラえもん30周年記念・期間限定生産商品】 [DVD] (in Japanese), Amazon Japan, Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  12. ↑ DORAEMON THE MOVIE BOX 1998-2004+TWO (スタンダード版) [DVD] (in Japanese), Amazon Japan, Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  13. ↑ 帰ってきたドラえもん/ザ・ドラえもんズ ムシムシぴょんぴょん大作戦!【劇場版】 [VHS] (in Japanese), Amazon Japan, Retrieved May 1, 2026.
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