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.
The 2013–2015 Japan Window
546 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Yo-kai Watch: The Movie sits at position #179.
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The 2010s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2010s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Yo-kai Watch: The Movie premiered. 1769 total titles in this decade from Japan.
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 |