Doraemon: Nobita Drifts in the Universe

Doraemon: Nobita Drifts in the Universe

Year: 1999

Runtime: 93 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Tsutomu Shibayama

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Nobita and his friends embark on a daring rescue to free Giant and Suneo, who have been captured by a malevolent alien force. To confront the threat, they join forces with an interstellar army also determined to defeat the villains, leading to an epic showdown across the stars.

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1

Gravity-prone game starts chaos

Doraemon and friends start a game using a gadget from the future. Gian and Suneo wreck the playful competition with aggressive moves, sending Nobita, Doraemon, and Shizuka back to Nobita's room. The Gravity Modifier makes the room weightless, turning the game into chaos before it is ruined.

Nobita's room
2

Game discarded by Nobita's mother

The discarded game is discovered to have been thrown away by Nobita's mother. They rush to the dump to recover it, only to find that the game is already gone. Disappointed, they realize they must pursue clues elsewhere.

Dump site
3

Time Camera hints at a spaceship

Using the Time Camera, Doraemon witnesses a strange light carrying the game toward a spaceship. They then find a glowing rock at the departure site and decide to pursue it with the Space Exploration Boat. This sets the group on a new outer-space adventure.

Dump site
4

Pursuit through a wormhole and capture

During the chase, they travel through a wormhole storm and evacuate their Space Exploration Boat. They board the alien ship using the Pass Loop and discover Gian and Suneo inside, but the ship's crew locks them in a room, trapping them.

Alien spaceship
5

Descent to a spiders-ridden world

The spaceship lands on a rocky, barren planet inhabited by giant metallic spiders. Doraemon and the others escape the locked room, trying to avoid the spiders while the ship becomes ensnared in their webs.

Rocky planet with giant metallic spiders
6

Hamelin Pipe clears the webs

Doraemon uses an enlarged Hamelin Pipe to scare the spiders away and clear the webs, freeing the spaceship and its crew to continue their journey.

Rocky planet
7

New allies reveal themselves

The crew reveal themselves as Lian, Log, Freya, and Gorogoro, who are on a mission to find a habitable planet. They explain they’ll take the group back to Earth after repairing their warp device.

Alien planet
8

Secret base and a treacherous twist

A meteor-like assault drains the ship's energy, and the group is pulled to a secret base. There they meet Liebert, Lian's father, and Angolmois, an evil cloaked figure who wants to conquer Earth. Freya is revealed to be a spy, and the others are imprisoned.

Secret base
9

Underground escape and alliance

Using the Underground Submarine, Doraemon and the group escape and race back toward Lian's ship, fighting off Angolmois's robot soldiers. Freya hesitates to join but finally helps when urged by Lian.

Secret base / underground tunnels
10

Mothership council and the seed revelation

They reach the mothership and its council debates how to deal with Angolmois. Nobita realizes the glowing rock is a seed from the god-tree, and Lian prays, with a projection of his late mother guiding him to save his father from Angolmois.

Mothership
11

Disabling the fleet and exposing the robot

Doraemon, Nobita, Lian, and Freya land on Angolmois's base and use Nendoron to turn a control rod into clay, disabling all enemy spacecraft. Liebert destroys Angolmois's body, revealing him to be a robot.

Enemy base / spaceship
12

Final standoff and black hole

Their ship is on a collision course with the mothership, but they attach a Reverse Cloak and illuminate it with the Big Light to deflect the threat. Angolmois regrows a new body, chases them to a door, but gets stuck, is frozen by Coagulation Light, and is sent into a black hole.

Space near mothership
13

Return home and future hope

With Angolmois defeated, the mothership's inhabitants celebrate as Lian's group returns Doraemon and his friends to Earth. Lian vows to find another planet for his people.

Earth / Mothership
14

Ending on the foggy planet

The film ends with a repeat of the fog-planet scene, but this time the outcome is more hopeful as everyone looks forward to their next adventure.

Foggy planet

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