STAND BY ME ドラえもん 2

Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (Japanese: STAND BY ME ドラえもん 2) is a Japanese     film based on the   series and a sequel to 2014 film Stand by Me Doraemon. Directed by Ryūichi Yagi and, it is largely based on Doraemon' s 2000 short film ' and manga chapter Memories of Grandma, and shortly based on Doraemon's 2002 short film ' and the manga chapter Noby's Birthday. Some of the plot also comes from the anime episode 45 Years Later... My Future Self Came to Visit and the manga chapter 45 Years from Now, the anime episode Nobita's Bride and the corresponding manga chapter Noby's Bride, and the anime episode The Present for Shizuka-chan is Nobita.

The theme song is Niji (Rainbow) by Masaki Suda.

Debuting on 416 screens with limitations on seating capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Stand by Me Doraemon 2 earned $3.7 million on 305,000 admissions in its first weekend and ranked number-two in the Japanese box office. It was nominated for the Best Animation Film of the Year for the 2021 Awards of the Japanese Academy. The film made a gross total of $26.6 million in Japan and $78.5 million worldwide.

Plot
Nobita, following his previous adventure, has managed to change his future for the better, letting Shizuka marry him and reuniting with his best friend Doraemon. On his birthday, four months after reuniting with Doraemon, he finds a stuffed bear in his bedroom, reminding him of his beloved deceased grandmother, who repaired it when he was young, and died when he was still in kindergarten. He becomes sad while reminiscing, convincing Doraemon to return with him to the past on the Time Machine to once again meet her, so long as he returned as soon as he met his grandmother without meeting anyone directly.

However, Nobita could not hold his feelings in and look secretly from behind the scenes, instead becoming upset and interfering. Nobita's grandmother is astonished to see his appearance as an elementary school student and accepts him as lovingly as she treated the younger Nobita in the past. She is glad that he went back in time to be with her, and confides in him a great desire: to meet his future bride.

Nobita and Doraemon promise to go to the future and return to her with Nobita's bride. On the day the wedding is to be held, however, the future Nobita is not present to marry Shizuka. Everyone in the future worries about what could have happened to him or where he could have gone. In a hurry, Doraemon helps Nobita pretend to be his adult self and marry Shizuka.

Meanwhile, the Nobita in the future, who is about to marry Shizuka and crown his "dream of happiness", is seized by a panic attack and runs off, fleeing into the past on the same Time Machine the present Nobita took to the future wedding. He wants to see Doraemon again and restart his life in the carefree childhood he is nostalgic for, fearing that he is not the right person for Shizuka and that she is too kind.

The duo of Nobita and Doraemon are involved in a series of mishaps in the future, as well as the present and past, in order to fulfill Grandma’s wish of seeing Nobita’s bride. Will Nobita and Doraemon solve this problem and put everything in order? Will the future be set in stone? What takes place is a roller coaster of emotions, fun and suspense.

Release
The film was originally scheduled to release in Japanese theaters on. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was temporarily removed from the release schedule, and was replaced by Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur (which had been postponed from a previous release). The film was then postponed to when it was given a theatrical release in Japan. The film was released in Singapore on, Taiwan on , Indonesia on (and  in IMAX), Malaysia on  (postponed from a previous  release), Brunei on  (also postponed from a previous  release), Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and Egypt on , Thailand on  (after special preview screenings held between  and , and pushed forward from a previous  release), Laos on , Korea on , China on , Vietnam on  and Mongolia on  (also postponed from a previous  release and then from a  release). The TVB Jade Cantonese dub of the film was broadcast in Hong Kong on .The film was released on Boomerang in Italy as a pay-per-view on. The film was released for streaming on Netflix in Japan on, where an English dub was released on and a Turkish dub was released on. The film has also been released on multiple streaming/VOD platforms and digital storefronts, as well as on DVD and Blu-Ray, across Asia.

Cast

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International versions

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