Nobita - following his previous movie adventure - has managed to change his future for the better, making Shizuka marry him. It is the sixth highest grossing animated film of 2020. Netflix acquired distribution rights to the film outside Asia (despite it streaming in Asian Netflix as a non-Netflix Original) and was released on December 24, 2021, on the streaming platform. Directed by Ryūichi Yagi and Takashi Yamazaki, it is primarily inspired by Doraemon's 2000 short film Doraemon: A Grandmother's Recollections and Doraemon's 2002 short film The Day When I Was Born. Stand by Me Doraemon 2 ( STAND BY ME ドラえもん 2) is a 2020 Japanese 3D computer animated science fiction comedy film based on the Doraemon manga series and a sequel to the previous movie, the 2014 film Stand by Me Doraemon.