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Stand By Me Doraemon 3D CG Film Airs in Indonesia on August 25
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian television channel RCTI announced on Friday that it will air the Stand By Me Doraemon 3D CG film in Indonesia on August 25 at 4:00 p.m.
The film originally opened in Indonesia on December 10. Indonesian cinema chains Blitzmegaplex, Cinemaxx, and Platinum Cineplex screened the film. The latest Doraemon film, Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes (Doraemon: Nobita no Space Heroes), opened in Indonesia on July 22.
49-year-old Takashi Yamazaki (Returner, Always: Sunset on Third Street, Ballad, Space Battleship Yamato) and 48-year-old Ryûichi Yagi (Pénélope tête en l'air line director, Moyashimon 3D CG director) helmed Stand By Me Doraemon after collaborating on Japan's first feature-length 3D CG anime film, Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki. Yamazaki also wrote the screenplay.
The film premiered in Japan on August 8 last year, ranking #1 at the Japanese box office on its opening weekend, and earned 9,184,183,031 yen (US$77,933,763) by its 15th weekend.
The manga creator duo Fujiko Fujio (Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko) created Doraemon in 1969. In the story, the robotic cat was sent by a boy in the future to the present day to help the boy's hapless grandfather, Nobita. Doraemon, Nobita, and other children deal with everyday childhood issues, solve (and cause) problems with the gadgets in Doraemon's fourth-dimensional pocket, and embark on escapades through time and space.
Publisher Elex Media Komputindo began publishing the Doraemon manga in Indonesia in 1992, and the RCTI channel began airing the Doraemon TV anime series in the country in the same year. The channel continues to air the TV anime every Sunday at 8:00 a.m.
[Via Kaori Nusantara]
