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Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021 Film Opens in the Philippines on July 9
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Odex announced on Monday that it will open a fan screening of the Doraemon: Nobita's Little "Star Wars" 2021 anime film in the Philippines on July 9. In addition, Philippine cinema chain SM Cinema also announced on Monday that the film's general screening will open on July 13
The film opened in Japan on March 4 after a yearlong delay due to COVID-19. It ranked at #1 in its opening weekend, and sold 350,000 tickets for 440 million yen (about US$3.81 million) in its first three days. The film has sold a total of 2.14 million tickets, and earned a total of 2,558,009,800 yen (about US$19.6 million) as of May 1.
Doraemon: Nobita's Little "Star Wars" 2021 is the 41st film in the Doraemon franchise. The film is a remake of the 1985 Doraemon film of the same title.
Susumu Yamaguchi — a key animator on many previous Doraemon movies, unit director of Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration, and the director of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE — directed the new film. Dai Sato (Eureka Seven, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Listeners) penned the script. Official HiGE DANdism created the theme song "Universe" specifically for the film. Sibling folk duo Billy BanBan performed the insert song "Kokoro Arigatō" (Thank You for the Heart). Shirogumi, the 3D CG studio behind the production of the Stand By Me Doraemon films, handled the CG for the spaceships in the film.
Sources: Odex Philippines' Facebook page, SM Cinema's Twitter account via AnimePH
