Doraemon (film series)
The Doraemon franchise includes several feature-length animated films, which began as far back as March 1980 with almost consistently annual releases ever since.
Doraemon: Nobita and the Spiral City
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| Directed by | Tsutomu Shibayama |
| Production companies | Asatsu DK Shin-Ei Animation |
| Release date | March 8, 1997 |
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Released in March 1997, the film follows Doraemon, Nobita, and his friends as they work together to create a thriving world of living toys on an uninhabited planet. However, dangerous criminal Onigoro Kumatora also ends up on the toys' world and begins causing trouble when he believes the planet's core is pure gold.
During the final confrontations with Onigoro and his duplicates, Nobita uses a pistol gadget that causes some of them to inflate; using it to ultimately defeat the leading Onigoro in the end.
Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King
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| Directed by | Tsutomu Shibayama |
| Production companies | Shin-Ei Animation |
| Release date | March 7, 2000 |
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Released in March 2000, the film follows Doraemon and his friends in the ancient Mesoamerican kingdom of Mayana. After the evil witch Ledina curses the kingdom, Nobita takes the place of the young prince Tio. With the help of Doraemon's gadgets, Nobita and his friends help the denizens of the kingdom and fight Ledina.
At one point in the film, Doraemon and co. encounter an enormous crocodile ridden by one of Ledina's warriors. Doraemon runs from the crocodile and searches through his gadgets for something to help him. Procuring a stick of bubble gum, he throws it into the crocodile's mouth which inflates and flies away.
