Japan Synopsis
映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン！
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.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Yo-kai Watch: The Movie. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From OLM
Animation + Family in Japan
177 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Animation and Family genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Yo-kai Watch: The Movie itself).
The 2013–2015 Japan Window
Yo-kai Watch: The Movie holds position #179 of 546 Japan films in the 2013–2015 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in Japan, 1769 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Yo-kai Watch: The Movie premiered alongside 186 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 186 other Japan films in 2014.
The 3074th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
37 audience reviews — more than 57% of Japan films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 44th percentile among Japan films.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,430 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (69th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.5 points above the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Animation productions specifically: #1,072 of 2,532 (top 42%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | OLM |
| Runtime | 1h 37m |
| Release Date | December 20, 2014 |
| IMDb | tt4168022 |