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5.7/10 IMDb Music by Kenichiro Saigo Japanese 映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン! | 89% Rotten Tomatoes Initial release 20 December 2014 (Japan) Music director Ken'ichirô Saigô | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hepburn Eiga Yōkai Wotchi Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan! Directed by Shigeharu Takahashi (ja)Shinji Ushiro (ja) Produced by Kiyofumi KajiwaraMakoto WadaIzumi FurusawaYukari HayakawaJunichi Yanagihara Starring Haruka TomatsuTomokazu SekiEtsuko KozakuraRomi ParkYuki Kaji Directors Shinji Ushiro, Shigeharu Takahashi, Mark Risley Cast Similar Yôkai Watch: the Movie 2, Yo‑kai Watch: Soratobu, Air Crew, Greedy Ghost, Timeless Romance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yo-kai Watch: The Movie, released in Japan under the name Yo-kai Watch: Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan! (映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン!, Eiga Yōkai Wotchi Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan!, Yo-kai Watch the Movie: It's the Secret of Birth, Meow!) is a 2014 Japanese animated fantasy adventure film directed by Shigeharu Takahashi and Shinji Ushiro as part of the Yo-kai Watch franchise. The film was released on December 20, 2014 in Japan. It was followed by Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan!, released on December 19, 2015.
Contents
- Yo kai watch the movie event teaser 1
- Yo kai watch the movie event trailer 2
- Plot
- Music
- Marketing
- Home media
- Western Release
- Box office
- References
Yo kai watch the movie event trailer 2
Plot
When the evil Yo-kai Kin, Gin, and Bronzlow steal the Yo-kai Watch from Nate Adams one night to help their master Dame Dedtime prevent humans and Yo-kai from being friends, Nate finds help in the Yo-kai Hovernyan who takes Nate, Whisper, and Jibanyan back in time 60 years to when the Yo-kai Watch was first invented by Nate's own grandfather Nathaniel while he was a kid. Together, the two boys fight Dame Dedtime and her evil Wicked Yo-kai minions to save the world from her evil plans.
Music
The film's score was written Kenichiro Saigo.
Marketing
The film was announced in July 2014 on CoroCoro Comic. The first trailer was released in August and another trailer was released in October. A second film was announced in November. A story tie-in to the film was included in the video game Yo-kai Watch 2: Shinuchi, released on December 13. A manga of the film, illustrated by Noriyuki Konishi, was released in December, reaching the 30th place on the weekly chart with 32,561 copies sold on its first week, and selling 261,145 copies by its fifth week.
Home media
The Blu-ray and DVD were released on July 8, 2015, with both reaching the number-one place on the animation rankings, with 14,090 and 84,932 copies sold, respectively. By its 13th week, the DVD had sold 128,810 copies.
Western Release
In September 2016, it was revealed via the Fathom Events website that the movie would be screened one time only on October 15, in select cinemas across the United States. Attendees received an exclusive Hovernyan medal at the screening. It made its premiere on American television on Disney XD on Saturday, November 12, 2016 after the premiere of the "Yo-kai Watch" anime episode "Whisper's Secret Past", with further showings on Sunday, November 13 and Monday on the 14. It was released on Netflix on December 1, 2016 in the United States.
Box office
The film set a new record for Toho for advance ticket sales, with 721,422 sold by October 26, reaching 840,000 by late November and more than 1 million by mid-December.
The film was number-one on its opening weekend, with ¥1.629 billion, a record for a Japanese film, previously held by Howl's Moving Castle. It reached ¥5 billion by its third weekend, ¥6.54 billion by the fourth weekend and ¥7 billion by the sixth weekend. The film was the highest-grossing Japanese film at the Japanese box office in 2015, with ¥7.8 billion (US$65 million).
The film grossed ₩1.98 billion on its opening in South Korea.