Yo-kai Watch: The Movie
| Yo-kai Watch: The Movie Event | |
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Japanese poster for the movie
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| Japanese | 映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン! |
| Hepburn | Eiga Yōkai Wotchi Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan! |
| Directed by |
Shigeharu Takahashi Shinji Ushiro |
| Produced by | Kiyofumi Kajiwara Makoto Wada Izumi Furusawa Yukari Hayakawa Junichi Yanagihara |
| Screenplay by | Yoichi Kato |
| Based on |
Yo-kai Watch by Level-5 |
| Starring |
Haruka Tomatsu Tomokazu Seki Etsuko Kozakura Romi Park Yuki Kaji |
| Music by | Kenichiro Saigo |
| Cinematography | Tatsumi Yukiwaki |
| Edited by | Emi Onodera |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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Release date
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December 20, 2014 |
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Running time
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97 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office |
¥7.8 billion (US$65 million) (Japan) ₩1.98 billion (South Korea) |
Yo-kai Watch: The Movie, released in Japan under the name Yo-kai Watch: Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan! (映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン! Eiga Yōkai Wotchi Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan!, Yo-kai Watch the Movie: It's the Secret of Birth, Meow!) is a 2014 Japanese animated fantasy adventure film directed by Shigeharu Takahashi and Shinji Ushiro as part of the Yo-kai Watch franchise. The film was released on December 20, 2014 in Japan. It was followed by Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan!, released on December 19, 2015.
One night, the evil Yo-kai Kin and Gin steal the Yo-kai Watch from Nate Adams to help their master Dame Dedtime prevent humans and Yo-kai from being friends! He then encounters Meganyan, who tells him that Yo-Kai are real. He and the crew head to Nate's grandmother, encounter a shadow, and chase it, but to no avail. Meganyan returns, asking to pull out the cork in his body -- the cork that supresses his energy. Nate decides not to pull it out, and asks Jibanyan & Whisper to pull it out for him, but to no avail. Nate pulls it out, and he and the crew get covered in pink smoke. He finds help from the Yo-kai Hovernyan - and uses a time stone to take Nate, Whisper, and Jibanyan back in time 60 years to when the Yo-kai Watch was first invented by Nate's own grandfather Nathaniel while he was a kid. Dame Dedtime gets word of this, and tries a plan to push the human world farther from the Yo-kai world. Together, the two boys battle Dame Dedtime and her evil Wicked Yo-kai minions to save the world from her evil plans.
The film's score was written Kenichiro Saigo.
The film was announced in July 2014 on CoroCoro Comic. The first trailer was released in August and another trailer was released in October. A second film was announced in November. A story tie-in to the film was included in the video game Yo-kai Watch 2: Shinuchi, released on December 13. A manga of the film, illustrated by Noriyuki Konishi, was released in December, reaching the 30th place on the weekly chart with 32,561 copies sold on its first week, and selling 261,145 copies by its fifth week.
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