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Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Dinosaur
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji	ドラえもん: のび太の恐竜
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Doraemon: Nobita no Kyōryū
Directed by	Hiroshi Fukutomi
Written by	Fujiko Fujio[1] Seiji Matsuoka[2]
Based on	Doraemon's Long Tales: Noby's Dinosaur byFujiko Fujio[1]
Produced by	Sankichiro Kusube Soichi Bessho[2]
Starring	Nobuyo Ōyama Noriko Ohara Michiko Nomura Kaneta Kimotsuki Kazuya Tatekabe Keiko Yokozawa Masayuki Katou
Cinematography	Katsuji Misawa[2]
Edited by	Kazuo Inoue Seiji Morita
Music by	Shunsuke Kikuchi[2]
Production companies	Shin-Ei Animation Asatsu
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	March 15, 1980 (1980-03-15)
Running time	100 minutes[2]
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	$25 million[3]

Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur^[4] (ドラえもん: のび太の恐竜,Doraemon: Nobita no Kyōryū) is a 1980 Japanese animatedscience fictionadventure film based on themanga seriesDoraemon,^[2] particularly the first volume of the same name of theDoraemon Long Stories series. The film premiered on 15 March 1980 in Japan. It is the first feature-lengthDoraemon film.^[2] In 2006, the film was remade asDoraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006. It is an expanded version of the 1975 chapter with the same name. It was thehighest-grossing animated film of the year 1980.

Suneo shows a fossil of a dinosaur claw to everyone except Nobita. Being very furious, Nobita claims he will be able to find a living dinosaur. Due to Doraemon refusing to help him, he digs on a hillside, but instead earns punishment from a landlord nearby who forces him to unearth a hole in the ground. He finds an egg-shaped stone underneath and quickly uses a time wrap to return it to its former form, and after warming it, the egg hatches to reveal aFutabasaurus, who is subsequently named Piisuke by Nobita. Instead of immediately showing theFutabasaurus to the others, Nobita waits for it to grow while making a deal with others. However, as Piisuke grows too large, Nobita and Doraemon hide him in the nearby lake but attract the attention of a mysterious assailant from the 24th century who wanted to purchase Piisuke from Nobita. Worried about the risk of Piisuke being found and overwhelmed in having to take care of the dinosaur, Doraemon and Nobita transport him to 100 million years ago in theLate Cretaceous period. They are attacked by an assailant who previously tried to make a deal with Nobita to sell Piisuke, though they manage to escape. When Gian and Suneo confront Nobita about his claim about his living dinosaur, he runs into Shizuka, but after revealing that even she thinks he's lying, Nobita got furious and brings all three of them to his house to show Piisuke. Left with no proof, Nobita instead shows them Piisuke through a television monitor, but realizes that he and Doraemon had unknowingly transported Piisuke to theNorth American shore after the time machine was attacked by the assailant. They and the others decide to go there, but the time machine is overloaded and gets destroyed once they arrive.

The group lands on the North American shore and finds Piisuke, proving Nobita's claim and making his friends apologize to him. Doraemon suggests the others have fun on the beach, while he quietly tries to fix the time machine. He only reveals that the time machine is broken and must be taken back to Nobita's desk in faraway Japan if they want to go back to the present time after he failed. At night, when they are having dinner, a largeTyrannosaurus appears from the forest. Doraemon uses his Momotaro Dango to control it, and orders him to go back. The group decides to travel acrossBeringia to return home. In their way, they meet with various dinosaur species who either help or hinder their progress, such asBrontosaurus andOrnithomimus. At a cliff, they are attacked by a pack ofPteranodons, who break their bamboocopters. They are saved by several assailants, who reveal they are dinosaur hunters working for a fossil collector named Dollmanstein from the 24th century. They offer to return them back home in exchange for selling Piisuke. Refusing the deal, the group set a lure for the hunters by making mud statues of them and placing them in cars, while they escape across a river with a raft. However, they are eventually spotted and separated, with Gian, Suneo, and Shizuka captured by the hunters, while Nobita, Doraemon and Piisuke fell from a waterfall.

Thankfully, one of Doraemon's gadgets saved the three. Leaving Piisuke behind for its safety, Doraemon and Nobita find the hunters' quarter downstream where Gian, Suneo, and Shizuka are used as baits for aTyrannosaurus. The hunters demand that they hand over Piisuke in exchange for their lives, but theTyrannosaurus is revealed to be the one they had previously used a Momotaro Dango for, and the group uses it to attack the hunters. The hunters are subsequently captured and imprisoned by the Time Patrol. Piisuke is transported to his homeland, Late Cretaceous Japan, while Nobita and his friends bid him farewell and go back to the present day.

Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur was released in Japan on 15 March 1980, where it was distributed byToho.^[2] The film grossed¥2.64 billion in Japan and was the fifth highest-grossing Japanese film of the year, and one of the highest-grossing animated films.^[5]

The film was first released onLaserdisc in Japan on October 18, 1989.^[6]

The film was released onVHS byShogakukan in December 1991.^[7] It was later re-released on VHS byPony Canyon on May 17, 1996.^[8] Pony Canyon eventually released the film onDVD on March 14, 2001.^[9] The company later re-released the film on DVD on September 3, 2010.^[10]

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