Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil | |
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Directed by | Tsutomu Shibayama |
Produced by | Soichi Besso Tetsuo Kanno |
Written by | Hiroshi Fujimoto Motoo Abiko |
Starring |
Nobuyo Ōyama Noriko Ohara Michiko Nomura Kaneta Kimotsuki Kazuya Tatekabe Michie Kita Kousei Tomita Hozumi Gôda Yuji Mitsuya Teiji Oomiya Sachiko Chijimatsu Masako Matsubara Yoshino Ohtori Kazuyo Aoki |
Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
Edited by |
Kazuo Inoue Noriko Tsurumaki |
Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time
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95 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | ¥1.00 billion ($8.1 million) |
Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil(ドラえもん のび太の海底鬼岩城 Doraemon Nobita no Kaiteiki Ganjō?) is the fourth Doraemon film, released March 12, 1983. The film is based on the Western myth of Atlantis, the lost city. It is the highest-grossing animated film of 1983.
The plot revolves around a summer vacation of Nobita and his friends under the waters of the Pacific Ocean. Gian and Suneo take Doraemon's underwater vehicle and travel through the Atlantic Ocean, trying to find a treasure ship. Along the way, they discover that the environment gun that Doraemon used to protect them is running out of energy leaving them vulnerable to the sea. Fortunately, they are rescued by some marine creatures. Doraemon and his friends are later captured by these creatures, revealed to be inhabinats of the underwater kingdom of Mu. It is revealed that another undersea kingdom, Atlantis, now controlled by robots, was about to destroy the Earth with nuclear weapons after mistaking a volcano eruption for an invasion. With the help of a young boy from Mu, Nobita and his friends attempt to stop the robots, but are all captured. However, when things are at their grimmest, Doraemon's robotic underwater vehicle sacrifices itself to destroy the computer that controlled all the robots and nuclear weapons. After returning to Mu, Doraemon and his friends are hailed as heroes before returning home.