Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Visit to the West

The Record of Nobita's Parallel Visit to the West
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Directed by	Tsutomu Shibayama
Starring	Nobuyo Ōyama Noriko Ohara
Music by	Shunsuke Kikuchi
Production company	Asatsu
Distributed by	Toho Company
Release dates	12 March 1988 (1988-03-12)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥1.36 billion ($12.1 million)

Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Visit to the West (のび太のパラレル西遊記, Doraemon: Nobita no Parareru saiyûki) is a feature-length Doraemon film which premiered on March 12, 1988. It is loosely based on the novel Journey to the West. It was the last Showa era Doraemon movie.

Cast of Characters

Doraemon	Nobuyo Oyama
Nobita Nobi	Noriko Ohara
Shizuka Minamoto	Michiko Nomura
Suneo Honekawa	Kaneta Kimotsuki
Jian	Kazuya Tatekabe
Nobita's Mama	Sachiko Chijimatsu
Nobita's Papa	Masayuki Sato
Dekisugi	Sumiko Shirakawa
Sensei	Ryoichi Tanaka
Dorami	Keiko Yokozawa
Time Machine	Yuji Mitsuya
Sanzo	Masaru Ikeda
Linley	Yuko Mizutani
Ox King	Hidekatsu Shibata
Rashon	Youko Kuri
Kinkaku	Takko Ishimori
Ginkaku	Seizo Katou
Motohira-kun	Keiichi Nanba
Computer	Toshio Ishii
Princess	Eriko Hara
Apparition	Yuu Shimaka Aruno Tahara

Plot

Nobita, Gian, Shizuka, and Suneo is preparing for a school play on the "Journey to the West". As they are arguing about who should play the role of the monkey king, Nobita suggested that the real monkey king should play the role. Because the monkey king is only a legend, Nobita and Doraemon have decided to go back in time using the time machine and make a fake one and show Gian, Shizuka, and Suneo to prove that they are right. Unfortunately, Doraemon's machine allowed the fictional monsters to come to the real world and defeated the entire human races, thus turning the future (Nobita's time) into a demon-ruled world. In order to reverse the change, Doraemon and gang needed to return to the past and capture the demons back into the machine. On the way, they have met the real monk and rinrei (a child). At the end, they have either returned the demons back to the machine or destroy them with Dorami's help, thus turning the future back to normal.

External links

• Doraemon The Movie 25th page (Japanese)
• Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Visit to the West at IMDb