Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding (1999)
のび太の結婚前夜
Nobita and Doraemon travel into the future to see whether or not Nobita will marry Shizuka. Once they arrive, they find out that instead of travelling to the day of the wedding, they traveled to the day before. The pair follow the future Nobita and his friends as they try to return a lost cat to its owner.
- Date of release
- 1999-01-22
- TMDB
- 7.6 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 27m
- Genres
- Animation, Family
- Director
- Ayumu Watanabe
Casting
- Nobuyo Oyama — Doraemon (voice)
- Noriko Ohara — Nobita Nobi (voice)
- Michiko Nomura — Shizuka Minamoto (voice)
- Kazuya Tatekabe — Takeshi Goda (voice)
- Kaneta Kimotsuki — Suneo Honegawa (voice)
- Akira Kume — Yoshio Minamoto (voice)
- Masako Matsubara — Shizuka's Mother (voice)
- Sumiko Shirakawa — Hidetoshi Dekisugi (voice)
- Ryoichi Tanaka — Teacher (voice)
Interesting facts
Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding is a 1999 Japanese animated science fiction comedy-drama short film. It premiered in Japan on March 6, 1999 on a triple feature with The Doraemons: Funny Candy of Okashinana!? and Doraemon: Nobita Drifts in the Universe. It received the 17th Golden Gross Award for Excellence at the 17th Golden Gross Awards. It is largely an expanded version of the 1981 chapter "The Night Before Nobita's Wedding".
Production
According to director Ayumu Watanabe, initially there were plans to add and mix in elements from other Doraemon stories, such as "Romance in the Snowy Mountain". However, it was decided to focus solely on the night before the day of Nobita and Shizuka's wedding, rather than trying to depict the entire process leading up to it within a half hour.
In the original story, Shizuka and her father Toshio connect towards the end through Doraemon using the "Honesty Antenna" secret gadget to make her confess her worry. But Watanabe decided to remove the gadget for the short film and instead have Shizuka confess her worries about leaving her parents after hearing her father start coughing, with his reasoning being, "I assume Fujiko F.
Watanabe also said of another additional scene exclusive to the short, "I added the scene where Shizuka receives a pearl necklace from her mother because I wanted to depict the significance of a mother entrusting something precious to her daughter."
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