Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil

Doraemon the Movie 1983: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil
Directed by	Tsutomu Shibayama
Written by	Hiroshi Fujimoto Motoo Abiko
Based on	Doraemon's Long Tales: Noby in Devilfish Castle by Fujiko F. Fujio
Produced by	Soichi Besso Tetsuo Kanno
Starring	Nobuyo Ōyama Noriko Ohara Michiko Nomura Kaneta Kimotsuki Kazuya Tatekabe
Edited by	Kazuo Inoue Noriko Tsurumaki
Music by	Shunsuke Kikuchi
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	12 March 1983 (1983-03-12)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥1.7 billion

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 on March 12, 1983 in Japan. Directed by Tsutomu Shibayama, the film is based on the Western myth of Atlantis, the lost city. It is the highest-grossing animated film of 1983.

Plot

The plot happens when the Bermuda Triangle is on the news. Meanwhile, Doraemon and friends go camping after helping Nobita to finish his homework. They use an adaptation light to survive underwater, and an underwater buggy to commute. This buggy has feelings and likes Shizuka. Doraemon takes out a big tent that provides all their needs, and that night they have a barbecue, with Gian and Suneo wanting to go the Atlantic but disallowed by Nobita. That night, Gian and Suneo take Buggy and travel through the Atlantic Ocean, trying to find a treasure ship. They lose consciousness, and their friends, who have been looking for them, think they're dead, but they wake up soon. They find the ship and Doraemon, who is outside, sees a sea horse. 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. They are rescued by some marine creatures. Nobita 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, Buggy 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.

Cast

Character	Voice
Doraemon	Nobuyo Ōyama
Nobita Nobi	Noriko Ohara
Shizuka Minamoto	Michiko Nomura
Takeshi "Gian" Goda	Kazuya Tatekabe
Suneo Honekawa	Kaneta Kimotsuki
Eru	Michie Kita
Underwater Buggy	Yūji Mitsuya
Mu Prime Minister	Teiji Ōmiya
Poseidon	Kōsei Tomita
Announcer	Hozumi Gōda
Mu Patrolling Crew	Fumio Matsuoka Masaharu Satō Kōji Totani Kōzō Shioya Kōichi Hashimoto
Nobita's Mom	Sachiko Chijimatsu
Nobita's Papa	Masayuki Sato
Shizuka's Mom	Masako Matsubara
Suneo's Mom	Yoshino Ohtori
Gian's Mom	Kazuyo Aoki

External links

• JMDB entry (in Japanese)
• Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil at IMDb
• Anime News Network entry