Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops

Nobita and the Steel Troops
Theatrical film poster of the film
Directed by	Tsutomu Shibayama
Written by	Hiroshi Fujimoto
Starring	Nobuyo Oyama Noriko Ohara Michiko Nomura Kazuya Tatekabe Kaneta Kimotsuki Kazuo Kumakura Kazuyo Aoki Yuriko Yamamoto Ryouichi Tanaka Osamu Kato Sachiko Chijimatsu Masayuki Kato Yuji Mitsuya Yoshino Ohtori Yasurō Tanaka
Music by	Shunsuke Kikuchi
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	March 15, 1986
Running time	97 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥1.30 billion ($11.1 million)

Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops(ドラえもん のび太と鉄人兵団, Doraemon Nobita to Tetsujin Heidan^?) is a 1986 anime science fiction film based on the popular anime/manga series, Doraemon. The original plot was written by Fujiko F. Fujio. Alternate titles include The Platoon of Iron Men, or The Robot Army. The film pays homage to many anime series featuring giant robots or "mecha", most notably Gundam and Mazinger. This film was later remade in 3D.

The movie's plot involves Nobita, who throws a temper tantrum because he wants a really large RC toy robot in order to upstage the rich kid, Suneo Honekawa, who has been showing off the new robot that his cousin made. His fit makes Doraemon angry and he uses his Anywhere Door to get away from the summer heat, to the North Pole. Sometime later, Nobita follows and discovers a strange bowling ball-like orb which starts blinking with a pulsating light, and summons what looks like a giant robot´s foot. After Nobita uses the foot to sled down, crashing into his room through the Anywhere Door, the bowling ball follows him home through the door and another robot piece falls into his backyard. A frozen Doraemon follows soon after, covered in ice before being thawed out and with a cold. Learning of the robot parts, Doraemon admits to Nobita that he has nothing to do with it, and the two use the Opposite World Entrance Oil and the Roll-Up Fishing Hole to enter the World Inside the Mirror, an alternate mirror world without people. There, they build the robot which Nobita christens "Zanda Claus" as he believed the sphere summoning the parts is from Santa Claus.