Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express

Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-Express
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Kanjiドラえもん: のび太と銀河超特急(エクスプレス)
Revised HepburnDoraemon; Nobita to Ginga Ekusupuresu
Directed byTsutomu Shibayama
Screenplay byFujiko F. Fujio
Based onDoraemon's Long Tales: Noby's Galactic Express
by Fujiko F. Fujio
Produced by
  • Soichi Bessi
  • Toshihide Yamada
  • Junichi Kimura
Starring
Narrated byHiroko Emori
CinematographyHideko Takahashi
Edited byHajime Okayasu
Music byShunsuke Kikuchi
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • March 3, 1996 (1996-03-03) (Japan)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office$24.9 million

Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-Express (ドラえもん: のび太と銀河超特急(エクスプレス), Doraemon; Nobita to Ginga Ekusupuresu), also known as Doraemon and the Galaxy Express, is a 1996 Japanese animated science fiction neo-Western film and the 17th feature-length Doraemon film. It premiered in Japan on March 3, 1996, based on the 16th volume of the same name in the Doraemon Long Stories manga series.

A homage to Leiji Matsumoto's Galaxy Express 999, it was directed by Tsutomu Shibayama and was also partially based on the 1980 Doraemon manga chapter, "A Night on the Galactic Railway".

This was notably the final Doraemon film completed and released during series creator Fujiko F. Fujio's life, as he died months after the release in September 1996 while illustrating the Doraemon's Long Stories manga for the next film, Doraemon: Nobita and the Spiral City.