Stand by Me Doraemon (स्टैंड बाय मी डोरेमॉन) (titled मेरा साथ देना डोरेमॉन in Hindi) (Japanese: STAND BY ME ドラえもん, Hepburn: Sutando Bai Mī Doraemon) is a 2014 Japanese animated science fiction comedy-drama film based on the Doraemon manga series and directed by Ryūichi Yagi and Takashi Yamazaki. It was released on 8 August 2014. It is the highest-grossing film of the Doraemon franchise. Bang Zoom! Entertainment premiered an English-dubbed version of the film at the Tokyo International Film Festival on 24 October 2014. The English version features the cast of the Disney XD show Doraemon: Gadget Cat From the Future. A different English version with local actors was distributed by Multivision Pictures Entertainment and VIVA International Pictures for a Filipino audience in 2015, however is currently lost. It is therefore the first of 2 Doraemon films to be dubbed in English. The Hindi TV dub by UTV Software Communications was titled The Doraemon Movie: Stand by Me (द डोरेमॉन मूवी: स्टैंड बाय मी).
Stand by Me Doraemon was commercially successful in Japan. It was number one on the box office charts for five consecutive weeks and was the second highest-grossing Japanese anime film of 2014 in Japan, with a box office total of $183.4 million, behind Disney's Frozen. In February 2015, the film won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year at the 38th Japan Academy Prize. The film is primarily based on the first chapter of the manga "All the Way From the Future", the 1973 chapter "Mountain Rescue", the 1980 chapter "Goodbye Shizuka", the 1984 chapter "Imprinting Shizuka", the 1998 short film "Doraemon Comes Back" and the 1999 short film "Doraemon: Nobita's Night Before a Wedding", though several other chapters are briefly brought up as well.
The Hindi dub by Netflix was released in February 2022. A sequel was released on 20 November 2020 in Japan.
Voice Cast[]
| Character | Japanese voice actor | English voice actor | Hindi voice actor (TV dub) |
Hindi voice actor (OTT dub) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doraemon | Wasabi Mizuta | Mona Marshall | Sonal Kaushal | Sumriddhi Shukla |
| Nobita Nobi | Megumi Ōhara | Johnny Yong Bosch | Simaran Kaur | Bhakti Jhaveri |
| Satoshi Tsumabuki (adult) | Vaibhav Thakkar (adult) | |||
| Shizuka Minamoto | Yumi Kakazu | Cassandra Morris | Parul Bhatnagar | Parul Bhatnagar |
| Adult Shizuka | Unknown | Unknown | Pooja Punjabi | |
| Takeshi Goda (Gian) | Subaru Kimura | Kaiji Tang | Deepansh Kakkar | Farhan Patel |
| Suneo Honekawa | Tomokazu Seki | Brian Beacock | Wajahat Hasan | Sanchit Wartak |
| Sewashi | Sachi Matsumoto | Max Mittelman | Unknown | Sahil Kulkarni |
| Hidetoshi Dekisugi | Shihoko Hagino | Spike Spencer | Pallavi Bharti | Asmita Dabhole |
| Adult Dekisugi | Unknown | Unknown | Rajesh Shukla | |
| Tamako Nobi (Nobita's Mother) | Kotono Mitsuishi | Mari Devon | Arannya Kaur | |
| Nobisuke Nobi (Nobita's Father) | Yasunori Matsumoto | Tony Oliver | Salim Khan | Mukesh Pandey |
| Teacher | Wataru Takagi | Keith Silverstein | Aaditya Raaj |
Additional Voices (OTT Dub)[]
- Pinky Pal Rajput
- Ghanshyam Shukla †
- Shalini Katyal
- Rati Chitalia
- Lekhashwini Bakshi
Hindi Dubbing Team (OTT Dub)[]
- Studio- Mayukhi In Sync-NP3
- Dubbing Director- Pinky Pal Rajput
- Adapter- Shiv Dev Singh
- Recordist- Shahid Shamsher Shaikh
- Mixer- Mohd. Mohsin Jaffri
- Project Manager- Rati Chitalia