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Movies Like Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan

If you loved Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan's Animation and Adventure storytelling, these films deliver a similar experience — carefully selected for tone, themes, and emotional depth. Each pick includes where to watch it right now.

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Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
7.5

Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur

2006

After bringing a fossilized egg back to life with the Time Cloth, Nobita finds himself the owner of a baby dinosaur. Everything is fine until it grows up. Nobita and friends use Doraemon's time machine to return it back to its own time.

Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure Into the Underworld - The Seven Magic Users
7.2

Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure Into the Underworld - The Seven Magic Users

2007

When Nobita turned the world into a world with magic with the what-if-telephone-booth-gadget, He and his world needed to defeat the threat that became reality in this world.

Stand by Me Doraemon
7.4

Stand by Me Doraemon

2014

Sewashi and Doraemon find themselves way back in time and meet Nobita. It is up to Doraemon to take care of Nobita or else he will not return to the present.

Regular Show: The Movie
7.9

Regular Show: The Movie

2015

After a high school lab experiment goes horribly wrong, Mordecai and Rigby must go back in time to battle an evil volleyball coach in order to save the universe — and their friendship.

Crayon Shin-chan: Super-Dimension! The Storm Called My Bride
7.7

Crayon Shin-chan: Super-Dimension! The Storm Called My Bride

2010

Shin-chan is approached by his time-traveling future bride-to-be Tamiko, who asks him to help save his adult self from the ruler of Neo Tokio.

Stand by Me Doraemon 2
7.8

Stand by Me Doraemon 2

2020

Nobita travels to the future to show his beloved grandma his bride, but adult Nobita has fled his own wedding.

Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars
7.1

Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars

1985

Nobita helps Doraemon to create a space movie. After Dekisugi fails to help them, the duo rope in Shizuka, who prefers to make a film about dolls.

Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi
6.5

Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi

2017

Doraemon and Nobita discover a mysterious golden ring far beneath the ice in Antarctica, leading them to uncover an ancient, ruined city.

More Movies Like Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan

Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express
7.5

Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express

1996

Doraemon went missing for 3 days. But it turns out later that he went to the 22nd century to buy a mystery galactic express train ticket whose destination is a secret until the passengers arrive there and see for themselves.

Mirai
7.1

Mirai

2018

Unhappy after his new baby sister displaces him, four-year-old Kun begins meeting people and pets from his family's history in their unique house in order to help him become the big brother he was meant to be.

Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops: Winged Angels
7.3

Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops: Winged Angels

2011

Nobita and Doraemon find a giant robot in pieces which they later assemble. It turns out to be a destructive weapon and the gang must save Earth from an imminent invasion.

Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel
6.7

Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel

2016

Ash meets the Mythical Pokémon Volcanion when it crashes down from the sky, creating a cloud of dust—and a mysterious force binds the two of them together! Volcanion despises humans and tries to get away, but it’s forced to drag Ash along as it continues its rescue mission. They arrive in a city of cogs and gears, where a corrupt official has stolen the ultimate invention: the Artificial Pokémon Magearna, created 500 years ago. He plans to use its mysterious power to take control of this mechanical kingdom! Can Ash and Volcanion work together to rescue Magearna? One of the greatest battles in Pokémon history is about to unfold!

Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights
7.0

Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights

1991

Shizuka ends up in the fantasy world of the 'Arabian Nights' story. However, Doraemon, Nobita, Suneo, and Jyaian must find her from the imaginary Middle East and bring her back to the real life.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes
6.2

Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes

2015

Nobita and friends decide to make a movie inspired by the space adventures of their heroes, but their fiction turns into a reality.

Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur
7.4

Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur

2020

Nobita accidentally finds a fossil dinosaur egg mixed with rocks in the dinosaur fossil exhibition site that he had visited before. He returns it to its original state with the 'time blanket'.

Hello World
7.3

Hello World

2019

A shy high schooler in Kyoto meets a man claiming to be his future self, who tells him he’s hacked into the past to save their first love.

To Every You I've Loved Before
6.7

To Every You I've Loved Before

2022

While struggling to make friends after his parents’ divorce, Koyomi Takasaki meets Kazune Takigawa, but apparently, they already have. Kazune reveals that she’s from World Line 85, an alternate universe in which she and Koyomi are lovers. But in a reality where moving between dimensions is natural, could Koyomi be the one from another world?

Doraemon: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil
6.7

Doraemon: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil

1982

Nothing is impossible for Doraemon's magic pocket, much less when it comes to using their inventions to live the most amazing adventures.

To Me, the One Who Loved You
6.0

To Me, the One Who Loved You

2022

Koyomi Hidaka and Shiori Sato meet at his father’s research center and begin to fall in love, but so do their parents, who eventually marry. To avoid becoming stepsiblings, they decide to run away to a parallel universe. Traveling between dimensions is common in their world, but not without repercussions. Does a universe exist for the young couple, and what will it cost them to find it?

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie
7.4

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie

2014

When the evil Yo-Kai Kin, Gin and Bronzlow makes the Yo-Kai Watch disappear from time so they can help Dame Dedtime prevent humans and Yo-Kai from being friends, Nate Adams finds help in the Yo-Kai Hovernyan, who takes Nate, Whisper and Jibanyan 60 years to the past, when the Yo-Kai Watch was first invented by Nate's grandfather, Nathaniel Adams, while he was a boy. Together, the 2 boys fight Dame Dedtime and her evil Wicked Yo-Kai minions to save the world from her evil plans.

Why These Movies Are Similar

These recommendations share core qualities with Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan (2016): Animation and Adventure themes, similar narrative structure, and comparable emotional depth. NoBadPicks uses a combination of TMDB collaborative filtering, genre matching, and AI analysis to surface films most likely to resonate with fans of Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan.

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