Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas

Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas
Directed by	Tsutomu Shibayama
Produced by	Jun Kaji Junichi Kimura Toshihide Yamada
Starring	Nobuyo Ōyama Noriko Ohara
Music by	Senri Ohe
Cinematography	Toshiyuki Umeda
Edited by	Hajime Okayasu
Production company	Asatsu
Distributed by	Toho Company
Release dates	7 March 1998 (1998-03-07) (Japan)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥2.10 billion[1] ($21,010,000)

Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas^[2] (ドラえもん のび太の南海大冒険, Doraemon Nobita no Nankai Daibōken) is a science fiction adventure film which premiered on March 7, 1998.

Plot

Nobita and his friends are discussing school project themed around seas and oceans. Interested in pirate life and treasury, Nobita asks Doraemon to help him find secret treasures. Doraemon at first denies the pirates roaming in the present day as well as the existence of secret treasures, but after learning news about recently discovered treasury, he helps Nobita in his sea voyage in search for the secret treasure. Bringing along Shizuka, Gian, and Suneo, they roam the South Sea while playing ship and sea danger simulators with Doraemon's gadgets.

However, Doraemon senses a time distortion that takes the group to the 16th century when real dangerous phenomena and sea monsters begin appearing. When a whirlpool destroys the group's ship, Nobita Nobi goes missing due to drowning and floating away, while the others are rescued by 16th century-pirates boarding a huge pirate ship. All but a few of Doraemon's gadgets are gone following the whirlpool incident and they must assist the pirates in rescuing their comrades, with a female pirate named Betty having lost track of her brother and father, who is the leader of the company. Although Doraemon's treasure map is torn to half, the pirates learn that their map is exactly the same as their own treasure map, confirming the existence of the secret treasures.

Meanwhile, a drowned Nobita Nobi is rescued by a dolphin and taken to an island where Betty's younger brother, Jack lives. Although Nobita is unable to converse with Jack due to a language barrier, the two befriend and Nobita learns the dolphin's name, Ruffin, as well as the fact that Jack is also separated from his family, like himself. The pirate company eventually arrives at the island and begins searching for Nobita and Jack. One by one, the pirates and Doraemon's company are attacked and captured by the island's inhabitants, which strike Doraemon as being uncannily similar to a pirate simulator created in the 22nd century.

After Riffin catches glimpses of the other torn half of treasure map owned by Nobita Nobi, he quickly leads Nobita and Jack to a 22nd-century-underground facility, but are captured by security guards. It is revealed that the facility is run by a 22nd-century businessman named Cash, who creates and sells genetically altered animals for money with the help of a scientist, Dr. Clone. Ruffin is taken to be experimented in Dr. Clone's Laboratory, while Nobita Nobi and Jack are thrown to jail and reunited with Doraemon's pirate company where Jack reconciles with his sister and father.

Two pirates of Doraemon's pirate company who are not captured stage a plan to bail the others as well as the pirates captured earlier out. They eventually manage to do that, and Nobita and his friends go to break the control system and free Ruffin. Cash orders the genetically altered animals to attack the company, but they manage to defeat all of them. Eventually, Cash's masterpiece, a sea monster breaks out and attacks the group. The sea monster swallows Doraemon and Cash, but the former manages to get himself and Cash out through a pinch gadget. The sea monster crashes into the walls of the cave effectively flooding it.

As the island starts sinking, the company escape outside the island with the help of Ruffin and its other Dolphin friends. Cash is arrested by Future Time Patrols summoned by Ruffin, who is revealed to be a secret agent of them who was sent to bust out Cash and his assosiates. The pirates, having recovered their leader, Betty and Jack's father, are now rich as they have found the secret treasures on the island. Bidding the pirates goodbye, Nobita and his friends return to the present time as they see that the pirates have erected a sail featuring Doraemon on it.

Cast

References

External links

• Doraemon The Movie 25th page (Japanese)
• Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas at the Internet Movie Database