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Yo-kai Watch: The Movie

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie

20147.41h 37m

Overview

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.

Directed by Shinji Ushiro
Written by Yoichi Kato
Produced by Kiyofumi Kajiwara, Izumi Furusawa
Box Office0Revenue: $99.5M

Top Cast

Haruka Tomatsu

Haruka Tomatsu

Keita Amano (voice)

Tomokazu Seki

Tomokazu Seki

Whisper / Buchinyan (voice)

Etsuko Kozakura

Etsuko Kozakura

Jibanyan / Buchinyan / Shogunyan (voice)

Romi Park

Romi Park

Keizo Amano (voice)

Yuki Kaji

Yuki Kaji

Darknyan / Hovernyan / Meganyan (voice)

Ainosuke Kataoka

Ainosuke Kataoka

Tokio Ubaune (voice)

Vanilla Yamazaki

Vanilla Yamazaki

Kin (voice)

Mika Kanai

Mika Kanai

Gin (voice)

Hisako Kyoda

Hisako Kyoda

Yukiko Amano (voice)

Haruka Shimazaki

Haruka Shimazaki

Young Yukiko Amano (voice)

Themes & Keywords

supernaturaltime travelbased on video gameyoukaianime

About Yo-kai Watch: The Movie

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie is a action, animation, adventure, comedy, family, fantasy film released in 2014 exploring themes of supernatural, time travel, based on video game, youkai, anime. Directed by Shinji Ushiro, it stars Haruka Tomatsu, Tomokazu Seki, Etsuko Kozakura. 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.

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