Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006

Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji	映画ドラえもん のび太の恐竜2006
Literal meaning	Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Doraemon: Nobita no Kyōryū 2006
Directed by	Ayumu Watanabe
Written by	Ayumu Watanabe Kōzō Kusuba
Story by	Fujiko F. Fujio
Based on	Doraemon's Long Tales: Noby's Dinosaur by Fujiko F. Fujio
Produced by	Shin-Ei Animation
Starring	Wasabi Mizuta Megumi Ōhara Yumi Kakazu Tomokazu Seki Subaru Kimura Ryunosuke Kamiki Kotono Mitsuishi Yasunori Matsumoto Eiichiro Funakoshi Kenji Utsumi Minami Takayama
Edited by	Hajime Okayasu
Music by	Kan Sawada
Production company	Shin-Ei Animation
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	March 4, 2006 (2006-03-04) (Japan)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	$34.7 million

Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 (映画ドラえもん のび太の恐竜2006, Doraemon: Nobita no Kyōryū 2006), also known as Doraemon: The Movie 2006 and Doraemon and the Little Dinosaur, is a 2006 Japanese animated science fiction adventure film which is a remake of the first, 1980, Doraemon film Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur. The new film was released theatrically in Japan on 4 March 2006. It's the 26th Doraemon film. The film got a private screening with English subtitles in Washington, D.C., on 14 November 2008, making it the first time Doraemon made an appearance in the US. The movie grossed over 3.28 billion yen.^[1]

This movie was ranked 6th highest-grossing movie and the highest grossing animated movie in 2006 of Japan and the United States. It was the first to feature the new Doraemon cast and implement a new animation style.

Suneo shows everyone a fossilized claw of Tyrannosaurus rex and Nobita is angry that he doesn't get a look. Nobita claims that he will be able to find a living dinosaur. Panicking, Nobita researches dinosaurs and starts digging in a hill, then the landlord forces him dig a hole. Nobita unearths an egg fossil. Using the time-wrap, he returns it to its original form and plans to hatch it.

A plesiosaur Futabasaurus comes out, and Nobita decides to name it Piisuke. Nobita doesn't show it to Gian and Suneo due to Piisuke being too small and says he would have to eat spaghetti through his nose if he lies. Meanwhile, Nobita and Piisuke form a strong bond between them with Nobita working very hard to make sure Piisuke is well looked after and grows attached.

Piisuke grows too big to stay in Nobita's closet and has to be moved to a lake. However, the next day when Nobita goes to visit him he hears that Piisuke was seen and when he gets to the lake it's flooded with reporters and is unable to take him home. Nobita is then visited by a dinosaur hunter from the 24th century who wanted to purchase Piisuke but flees soon after.

When night comes, Nobita takes Piisuke away after Doraemon distracts all who gathered there. He escapes with Piisuke and he and Doraemon use the time machine to take Piisuke back to the Late Cretaceous. On the way there however the time machine is attacked by the dinosaur hunter from before who intend to capture Piisuke no matter what. Nobita, Doraemon and Piisuke manage to escape but the time machine is damaged. They leave Piisuke in prehistoric times and return home with Nobita crying the entire way.

Gian, Shizuka and Suneo do not believe that Nobita has raised a dinosaur and he being angry uses the Time TV to show his friends Piisukes. However, they see Piisuke being bullied by sharp-toothed Elasmosaurus. Doraemon says because they were attacked while on the time machine they've accidentally left Piisuke in Cretaceous North America instead of Japan. Nobita and Doraemon decide to head back with the others tagging along as well.

Nobita finds Piisuke and his friends apologize for not believing him, they then plan to take Piisuke back to modern times and then to Cretaceous Japan. Doraemon who sees the time machine destroyed suggests they stay while he tries to fix it. However, when they're attacked by a Tyrannosaurus rex and the kids want to go home Doraemon admits that the time machine is broken.

At first the kids are scared but Doraemon says they can use the bamboo-copters to go to Cretaceous Japan to take Piisuke back home and they set off on a long journey to do so, exploring the prehistoric world as they go. They then befriend a flock of Ornithomimus with Momotaro Dumplings, who give them a ride before dropping them off at a lake. There, the group encounter a herd of Alamosaurus and are once again attacked by a Tyrannosaurus, but they tame it with the dumplings.

Then, after getting chased by a flock of Quetzalcoatlus, they are cornered by dinosaur hunters from the future, who had stalked them the whole way. They say they will consider it but plant a decoy and attempt to escape. Their plan is foiled and Gian, Shizuka and Suneo get captured. Doraemon and Nobita rush to save them and all five have to face being eaten by a ferocious Tyrannosaurus but realize that it was one of the tame dinosaurs and chase the hunters with it, as well as defeating the hunter's pet Spinosaurus.

The Time Police arrives on scene to discover the hunters in a cage, and the group gone. The five decides to walk to Japan by themselves and encounters the Time Police, who acknowledges their heroic actions with a salute. When they arrive, the group says their final goodbyes to Piisuke and return to their own time.

Upon arrival, Nobita's mom asks why they all pass by, Nobita says, "We have something to do!"

• "Hug Shichao?" (ハグしちゃお?, Hagu shichao?) by Rimi Natsukawa
• "My Note" (ボクノート, Boku Nōto) by Sukima Switch

• List of films featuring dinosaurs

• Official website (archived)
• Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 at IMDb