It has been revealed that the box office revenue of the latest film version of the popular anime series "Doraemon: Doraemon: Nobita's Art World Tales in the series, has exceeded 4 billion yen. The number of moviegoers has exceeded 3.4 million. According to the movie attendance ranking for the 11th to 13th of April announced on April 14th (surveyed by Kogyo Tsushinsha), the number of moviegoers over the three-day weekend was about 142,000, and the box office revenue was about 181 million yen, making it the number one film for the sixth consecutive week.
The latest film is the 45th anniversary work of the "Doraemon the Movie" series. The setting is "the world inside the painting," where Doraemon and Nobita and friends meet in the painting and face off against a powerful enemy over the phantom jewel. It is directed by Teramoto Yukiyo, who directed the TV anime "Doraemon" and became the first female director of the series with "Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's New Great Adventure into the Underworld ~The Seven Magicians~" in 2007, and Ito Kimishi, who has written many screenplays for the TV anime "Doraemon," is in charge of the script for the "Doraemon the Movie" series for the first time. It was released on March 7th.
The first film in the "Doraemon" series, "Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Dinosaur," was released in 1980. The highest box office revenue in the series was recorded by "Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Treasure Island" in 2018, which earned 5.37 billion yen.
