Doraemon: Robot War (partially found bootleg anime film; 1983)
Doraemon as seen in the movie. Note the aforementioned English and Traditional Chinese subtitles.
Status: Partially Found
Doraemon: Robot War (小叮噹大戰機器人) is a 1982 bootleg Doraemon film created by Cuckoo's Nest Studio (now known as Wang Film Productions). The film was directed by Wang Ya Quan. The film was released in theaters in June 1982, but it sold poorly and was not released on home video.
Plot
The plot of the film centers around a Robotics Exhibition in Taiwan where they are voting for the world's best robot. One professor who is really committed to developing the world's best robot had his spotlight suddenly stolen from him when Doraemon and Nobita entered the competition. Having been accidentally coerced into the competition, Doraemon used a wide variety of gadgets to defeat his opponents and ended up winning the World's Most Excellent Robot award.
The professor is so frustrated by this that he begins to develop an evil robot to defeat Doraemon. Meanwhile, Doraemon became a household name overnight and is now a big star. Wanting to become a star and experience the spotlight as well, Nobita uses a gadget to disguise himself as Doraemon.
The result of this is that Nobita, disguised as Doraemon, ends up being abducted by the professor's evil robot. Once he learns of this, Doraemon immediately sets out to rescue Nobita. Meanwhile, the professor sends out an army of robots to carry out terrorist attacks all around the world.
Eventually, Doraemon saves Nobita and manages to learn the weakness of the professor's robots, a fear of a certain type of gemstone. With this knowledge, Nobita and his friends are able to set out on an adventure, find the gemstone, and save the world.
Availability
Information on the film is extremely scarce, and the only proof of its existence is the few Chinese sites, containing several screenshots and one clip of ending footage from the film.
All footage of the film has English and Traditional Chinese subtitles - it is unknown why this was included in the release.
Videos
Images
An advertisement for the film.
The film's title screen. Note that it is simply the title and not the logo as seen in the advert above.
Nobita trying to do his homework.
Nobita, Gian, and Suneo.
Doraemon meets the weird professor and an evil robot.
The main characters looking upset.
A robot destroying everything.
Nobita and Gian looking at something.
Gian and Suneo shooting at something (presumably the robot).
Wang Film Productions
Wang Film Productions is an overseas animation outlet, originally created by James Wang for Hannah Barbera, that has worked for, among lesser-known studios, Hannah-Barbera/Cartoon Network (Regular Show: The Movie, Jetsons the Movie, numerous Scooby Doo specials), and Disney (Tron [1982], The 7D, Phineas and Ferb movies, Goof Troop), as well as 3 episodes of Ren and Stimpy and 30 episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures. This isn't like Regal Studios or Wolf Tracer Studios; this is a legitimate company that does legitimate animation work, which makes the fact that they made an unauthorised Doraemon film even stranger.
References
http://blog.roodo.com/msun/archives/21020918.html
http://pastebin.com/Z93DWKzA English translations of existing information from the Chinese sites.
http://blog.roodo.com/msun/archives/21020918.html Untranslated archive of the original post showing the images.
http://talk.doracity.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&p=138588&sid=9c870aedf59fe8ffc4a15e47d80353ff Post on doracity with more newspaper clippings on the film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Film_Productions http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/WangFilmProductions Info on the studio behind the film.