Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend

This article is about the film. For the videogame, see Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend DS.

Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend
Japanese Release Poster
Literally	Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend
Directed by	Ayumu Watanabe
Written by	Nashiwa Kanarate
Produced by	Kyohito Arushin
Starring	Wasabi Mizuta Megumi Ōhara Yumi Kakazu Subaru Kimura Tomokazu Seki Chiaki Maki Horikita Takuya Yoshikoshi Chikao Ōtsuka
Narrated by	Sutiyo Mutonabeti
Cinematography	Katsuyoshi Kishi
Edited by	Toshihiko Kojima
Music by	Kan Sawada (Original music composer) Te o Tsunagō by ayaka Yume o Kanaete Doraemon by MAO
Production company	Shin-Ei Animation
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	March 8, 2008 (2008-03-08)
Running time	112 minutes
Country	Japan
Languages	Japanese English dub
Box office	$31,684,949

Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend, also known as Doraemon, Nobita and the Green Planet, is a 2008 Japanese animated science fantasy film that was released in Japan on 8 March 2008 & in United States on 6 May 2008. It's the 28th Doraemon film.

The plot is based on the story in Doraemon manga volume 26 "Forest is living" and in volume 33 "Goodbye Ki-bō". This movie is not a remake, however, Ki-bō has appeared already in the 1992 film, Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds. The name Ki-bō comes from the words "Ki" (木) meaning tree, and "Bō" (坊) meaning boy. The word Ki-bō also comes from the word "Kibō" (希望), which means hope. The catch phrase of this movie is "僕らの希望が未来を動かす" (our hope moves the future), which Ki-bō's name can be referred to. Voices of Roku-chan and Moya-kun were done by anonymous children who were chosen.) .

The film was illustrated as manga in the February and March edition of CoroCoro Comic. Then it was released as the 25th film tankōbon. An action-adventure game was also released on March 6, 2008, two days before the release of the film, entitled, Nobita and the Green Giant Legend DS. This movie was ranked the 8th highest grossing Japanese animated movie.

Plot

Nobita's troubled about what to do with his zero test marks once again. A gust of wind scatters his test papers, and he falls into a garbage dump trying to gather them together again. There he finds a young withered tree that caught one of his papers and he decides to take it home. He tries to plant it in his garden but gets caught by his mother, who doesn't allow him to grow it.

Still wanting to keep it but not being allowed to grow, Doraemon comes up with the idea of making it come alive with a gadget he uses. Nobita names the little tree "Kibō" because all it can say is "ki". As the days pass, Nobita's parents also accept Kibō because he was a very smart boy who helped Nobita's mother whenever he was away. However, aliens from the Planet of Green decides to pass judgement claiming humans were destroying all the green on Earth. Nobita and his friends manage to escape by coincident and arrive at their planet. They are warmly welcomed to their city of Green Pier but also learn of what they are doing to their planet.

Unfortunately, with all his gadgets borrowed by Dorami, there was little Doraemon could do. They manage to escape and come across Princess Rire who tricks them into thinking she was leading them home but along the way, learns that what her adviser was about to do was wrong. Eventually with the help of the alien planet's Elder they manage to return to Earth which was already invaded. Fortunately the time watch Doraemon had dropped had frozen life on Earth giving them a chance to save everyone. The aliens try to summon their giant using Kibō to wipe out all humans despite the Elder's warnings and the plan backfires on them.

But with Nobita's persistence, he wakes up Kibō and everything is restored as the Elder sacrifices himself. Princess Rire announces to her people that they will watch Earth for the time being while Kibō decides to travel around space to learn more and become like the Elder. Nobita and his friends say goodbye to Kibō and go home. Back at Nobita's home, Nobita's mother calls to him and Doraemon to come down for dinner, and one can see Kibo's shoe beside Nobita's shoe.

Music

• Opening song: "Yume o Kanaete Doraemon" (夢をかなえてドラえもん), sung by MAO.
• Theme song: "Te o Tsunagō" (手をつなごう), sung by ayaka.

Cast

Character	Japanese voice actor	English voice actor
Doraemon	Wasabi Mizuta	Michaela Dietz
Nobita Nobi	Megumi Ōhara	Zach Callison
Suneo Honekawa	Tomokazu Seki	Tom Kenny
Shizuka Minamoto	Yumi Kakazu	Ariel Winter
Takeshi Goda	Subaru Kimura	Keith Ferguson (voice actor)
Dorami	Chiaki	Katy Perry
Princess Lire	Maki Horikita	Kathleen Delaney
Ki-Bo	Takuya Yoshikoshi	Greg DeLisle
Queen Remu	Maki Horikita	Kathleen Delaney
Shiraa	Chikao Ōtsuka
Jii	Yuji Miyake	Fred Tatasciore
Paruna	Teppei Arita	Damien Laquet
Roku-chan	Yoko Tsuchiya	Jillian Henry
Moya-kun	Jinbei Watanabe
Nobita's Mom	Kotono Mitsuishi	Katy Perry
Nobita's Dad	Yasunori Matsumoto	Fred Tatasciore
Dekisugi	Shihoko Hagino	Cree Summer
Mountain	Kotomi Ishida
Seedling	Ueno Ibuki
Mountain's Father	Junichi Sugawara	Phil LaMarr
Mountain's Mother	Maru Tamari	Naomi McDonald
Announcer	Hidenari Ugaki	David Kaye
Soldiers	Naomi Kusumi Yasuhiro Takato Fumihiko Goto	Brian Beacock Brian Stepanek Mike Pollock
Lady–in–Waiting	Tomoe Sakuragawa	Lisa Ortiz
Girl watering cans	Tamaki Matsumoto	Naomi McDonald
Congressmen	Akira Chiba Daihare Kawashima Masaya Matsuzaki Nodera Niki Yutaro Kobayashi Kana Yamaguchi Masashi Watanabe	John DiMaggio Kirk Douglas Charles Martinet Steve Blum Phil Hayes Phil LaMarr
Children	Yuki Mizuguchi Yuma Maruyama Luke Namiki Kei Okawa Yuta Ueno Nao Nakamura	Jen Taylor Tara Strong Olivia de Havilland Diana Douglas Russi Taylor Tom Kenny

Release

The film premiered in the theatres of Japan on 8 March 2008 & United States on 6 May 2008.

Reception

Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend grossed $31,684,949 at the box office.

Nominations

In 2009, this film was nominated as the Animation of the Year.

External links

• Official website
• Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend at IMDb