The Day When I Was Born

The Day When I Was Born
The Day When I Was Born
	DVD cover of release including Doraemon: Nobita in the Robot Kingdom and The Doraemons: Goal! Goal! Goal!!
Kanji	ぼくの生まれた日
Revised Hepburn	Boku no Umareta Hi
Directed by	Ayumu Watanabe
Screenplay by	Nobuyuki Fujimoto
Based on	Doraemon; by Fujiko F. Fujio
Produced by	Yoshihiko Ichikawa; Taro Iwamoto; Jun Kaji;
Starring	Noriko Ohara; Nobuyo Ōyama; Sachiko Chijimatsu; Yōsuke Naka; Michiko Nomura; Kazuya Tatekabe; Kaneta Kimotsuki;
Edited by	Hajime Okayasu; Toshihiko Kojima; Yumiko Nakaba; Hideaki Murai; Akihiro Kawasaki; Yoshitaka Miyake;
Music by	Shunsuke Kikuchi
Production; company	Shin-Ei Animation
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	March 9, 2002 (Japan);
Running time	26 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	$21.1 million

The Day When I Was Born (ぼくの生まれた日, Boku no Umareta Hi) is a 2002 Japanese animated science fiction comedy-drama short film.^[1]

It premiered in Japan on March 9, 2002 on a triple feature with Doraemon: Nobita in the Robot Kingdom^[1] and The Doraemons: Goal! Goal! Goal!!.

It is largely an expanded version of the 1972 chapter of the same name and is the last of the five "Doraemon Moving Series" short films directed by Ayumu Watanabe.^[2]

Plot

Coming soon!

Cast

Character	Japanese voice actor^[1]
Nobita Nobi	Noriko Ohara
Doraemon	Nobuyo Ōyama
Tamako Nobi	Sachiko Chijimatsu
Nobisuke Nobi	Yōsuke Naka
Shizuka Minamoto	Michiko Nomura
Suneo Honekawa	Kaneta Kimotsuki
Takeshi "Gian" Gōda	Kazuya Tatekabe
Michiko Minamoto	Masako Matsubara
Mrs. Honekawa	Mari Yokoo
Mrs. Gōda	Kazuyo Aoki
Female Nurse 1	Yūko Satō
Female Nurse 2	Sachi Matsumoto

Production

It is the last short in the "Doraemon Moving Series" of five short films directed by Ayumu Watanabe.^[2]

The scene where Nobita runs away from home in the rain and walks through the town is said to be a direct reflection of Watanabe's own experience of running away from home when he was in fifth grade.^[3]

Soundtrack

Theme song

"Kimi ni Aitakute" (キミに会いたくて): Lyrics: Akiko Kosaka / Composition: Akiko Kosaka / Arrangement: Akiko Kosaka / Vocals: Akiko Kosaka

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "ぼくの生まれた日：作品情報・キャスト・あらすじ". Eiga.com (in Japanese).
1 2 "渡辺歩③ 大事なことはすべて『ドラえもん』から教わった". Febri.jp (in Japanese). July 29, 2022.
↑ "『映画ドラえもんのび太とロボット王国』公式サイト". Doraemon Movie 23 Website (in Japanese). Archived from the original on September 21, 2015.

External links

The Day When I Was Born (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
The Day When I Was Born at IMDb

[eiga-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "ぼくの生まれた日：作品情報・キャスト・あらすじ". Eiga.com (in Japanese).

[Febri-2] 1 2 "渡辺歩③ 大事なことはすべて『ドラえもん』から教わった". Febri.jp (in Japanese). July 29, 2022.

[3] "『映画ドラえもんのび太とロボット王国』公式サイト". Doraemon Movie 23 Website (in Japanese). Archived from the original on September 21, 2015.

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