Stand by Me Doraemon (STAND BY ME ドラえもん) is a 2014 Japanese 3D computer-animated science fiction comedy drama film based on the Doraemon manga series and directed by Ryūichi Yagi and Takashi Yamazaki.[2] It was released on 8 August 2014.[3][4] It is the highest-grossing film of the Doraemon franchise. Bang Zoom! Entertainment premiered an English-dubbed version of the film at the Tokyo International Film Festival on 24 October 2014.[5] The English version features the cast of the Disney XD show Doraemon: Gadget Cat From the Future. The plot combines elements from the short stories "All the Way from the Country of the Future", "Imprinting Egg", "Goodbye, Shizuka-chan", "Romance in Snowy Mountain", "Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding" and "Goodbye, Doraemon..." into a new complete story – from the first time Doraemon came to Nobita's house to Doraemon bidding farewell to Nobita.[6][7] Stand by Me Doraemon was commercially successful in Japan. It was number-one on the box office charts for five consecutive weeks and was the second highest-grossing Japanese anime film of 2014 in Japan, with a box office total of $196.4 million, behind Disney's Frozen.[8][9][10] In February 2015, it won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year at the 38th Japan Academy Prize.[11] A sequel was released on 20 November 2020 in Japan.