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2026 Doraemon Film Opens in Vietnam on May 22
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Vietnamese cinema chain Lotte Cinema began streaming a Vietnamese-subtitled trailer last Friday for the 2026 Doraemon film, Eiga Doraemon: Shin Nobita no Kaitei Kiganjō (Doraemon the Movie: New Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil). The trailer reveals that the film will open in Vietnam on May 22.
The film opened in Japan on February 27 and ranked at #1 in its first weekend. The film sold 621,000 tickets and earned 779,681,350 yen (about US$4.96 million) in its first three days. The film ranked at #1 for six straight weekends.
The 45th 2D anime film (not counting the 3D CG Stand By Me Doraemon films) remakes the classic 1983 film Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil.
Shōya Chiba voiced the character El, a soldier of the Mu Federation tasked to keep an eye on Doraemon and his friends when they arrived at the bottom of the sea; and Ryō Hirohashi voiced the Mizunaka Buggy (Underwater Buggy), the amphibious buggy car and one of Doraemon's secret gadgets.
Actress Airi Taira is an ambassador for the film, along with comedy duo Alco & Peace. They voiced soldiers in the film.
Tetsuo Yajima (Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle, Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us, Pokémon XY) returns after directing episodes of the Doraemon television anime and contributing in other capacities to Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's New Great Adventure into the Underworld, Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Steel Troops: The New Age, and Eiga Doraemon: Nobita no Chikyū Symphony. Another veteran of the television anime, Isao Murayama (Witchy Precure!, Star Twinkle Precure, Bakugan), wrote the new film's screenplay.
