Editing Gekijōban Doubutsu no Mori

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|title= [[File:GDnM Logo.png|270px|Logo]]<br>''Gekijōban Doubutsu no Mori''
|image = [[File:GDnM Poster.jpg|200px]]
|caption= Theatrical release poster
|director= Jōji Shimura
|producer= Bunshō Kajiya
|writer= Aya Matsui
|starring= Yui Horie<br>Misato Fukuen<br>Fumiko Orikasa<br>Yū Kobayashi<br>Naoki Tatsuta<br>Kenichi Ogata<br>Shun Oguri<br>Yūichi Kimura
|music= {{wp|Kazumi Totaka}}
|cinematography= Kōji Yamakoshi
|editing= Toshio Henmi
|production_company= {{wp|OLM, Inc.}}
|distributor= {{wp|Toho}} (theatrical release) <br> {{wp|VAP (company)|VAP}} (DVD release)
|released= {{Flag|JPN}} December 16, 2006 <br> {{Flag|JPN}} July 25, 2007 (DVD)
|runtime= 87 minutes
|country= {{Flag|JPN}} Japan
|language= Japanese
|box_office= ¥1.7 billion (US$16,216,000)
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'''''Gekijōban Doubutsu no Mori'''''{{Note|{{Nihongo foot|劇場版「どうぶつの森」|Gekijōban Dōbutsu no Mori|Animal Forest: The Movie}}}} is a 2006 Japanese animated film based on {{WW}}. The film was directed by Jōji Shimura with production by OLM, Inc. and was released in theaters on December 16, 2006, where it earned an estimated total of ¥1.7 billion (US$16,216,731) at the box office as of 2007.<ref name="Box office">{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029165113/http://entertainment.rakuten.co.jp/movie/ranking/boxoffice/2007/|title=2007年度興行成績ランキング|site=Rakuten|archive-date=October 29, 2012}}</ref>

The film features characters and elements from the video games and follows [[Ai]], a human girl, as she moves into a [[Animal Village|village of animals]] and meets various friends along the way.

==Plot==
[[File:GDnM Taxi Arrival.png|thumb|left|200px|Ai arriving in Animal Village.]]
[[Ai]], a human girl, moves to [[Animal Village]] during spring. After she arrives, she goes to town hall and is told by [[Pelly]] to meet [[Tom Nook]] at his shop to receive her house key. Once she meets Tom Nook, he gives her work to do in the form of deliveries to the village residents. During her deliveries, Ai meets [[Rosie]], [[Alfonso]], [[Whitney]], and a human boy named [[Yū]]. Afterward, she visits the [[Able Sisters]] for her last delivery and meets [[Margie]]. On her way home, Ai encounters Yū again, who attempts to catch a [[Spider]] that had landed on her; the two then introduce themselves and become acquaintances.

After several more deliveries, Ai is tasked with a delivery to [[Apollo]]. When she arrives at his house, she learns he is not home. Yū once again appears and causes Ai to fall in a patch of roses—this causes [[Mr. Resetti]] to appear and scold her; after learning what happened, he tells Ai to look in [[The Roost]] for Apollo. Ai heads to the [[museum]], where she meets [[Blathers]] and [[Celeste]], the latter of whom leads her to The Roost. Once there, Ai meets [[Cesar]] and [[Cyrano]], and shortly afterward, Apollo arrives. She makes her delivery and heads home when she encounters Margie, whom she quickly befriends. Margie reveals her dream of being a fashion designer and compares accomplishing her dream to eating a cherry pie. Later that night, Ai finds a [[Message Bottle|note in a bottle]] on the beach that reads, "Above the pine forest, on the night of the Winter Festival, a miracle will occur." She then sees what she believes to be a UFO.

The next night, Ai encounters another note in a bottle, which instructs her to plant pine [[tree]]s across Animal Village for a miracle to take place during the Winter Festival. The next day, Ai, Margie, and Rosie meet up with Yū and Alfonso, who are looking for [[fossil]]s. Rosie tells them to look in a nearby cave for fossils, which they visit and find a [[Seismosaur]]us fossil, the one fossil missing from the museum's collection; however, the cave collapses, forcing the group to leave. Later, during the [[Fireworks Show|Fireworks Festival]], Margie realizes her dream, and Ai wishes to have one of her own. Once she returns home, she reads two more letters in bottles, which reveal that an alien has been writing them, hoping to arrive on her planet during the Winter Festival and meet her.

Some time after the Fireworks Festival, Ai learns from Rosie that Margie left Animal Village to pursue her dream. Disappointed that she did not let her know before leaving, Ai goes to The Roost, where Whitney comforts her. That night, Ai receives a letter from Margie, who explains why she did not let her know that she was moving—she says she would have been overwhelmed with emotion had she approached her before leaving. Attached to the letter is a drawing of Ai and a note telling her to "eat her own cherry pie," or to follow her dreams.

In the winter, [[Tortimer]], the mayor, announces the beginning of the Winter Festival, where the resident with the best holiday decorations is crowned the winner. Ai visits the cedar trees that she is revealed to have planted earlier in the year to find them fully grown. She then visits Celeste's observatory in the museum and sees a UFO crash in the village. The townsfolk gather at the crash site, and [[Gulliver]], who claims to be an alien, steps out, explaining that five parts of his ship must be found so he can leave. The residents of the village then split up to find the parts; [[Champ]] goes to the woods, Apollo, Cyrano, and Cesar go to the mountains, Whitney searches near the ocean, and Ai, Rosie, Alfonso, and Yū head toward the cave where they found the Seismosaurus fossil. However, the entrance is blocked by a boulder, which is moved with the help of Margie, who has returned to Animal Village for the Winter Festival. The group enters the cave and finds the spaceship part on top of the Seismosaurus. Yū climbs up the fossil and retrieves the part.

[[File:GDnM Ai & Alien.png|thumb|left|200px|Ai and the alien]]
[[File:GDnM Winter Festival Tree Lights.png|thumb|right|200px|The trees planted by Ai around the village, lit up in the shape of a star.]]
Once the group returns to Gulliver's ship, UFOs fly overhead, and the part they retrieved is revealed to be an alien life form. The alien appears to thank Ai before flying to the other UFOs; it then draws Ai's face as a constellation. Afterward, Tortimer announces Ai as the winner of the Winter Festival for the alien's constellation, and Ai feels for the first time that she is a true resident of Animal Village.

During the film's end credits sequence, several still frames are displayed, showing Animal Village and its residents over the next few months. The stills include Blathers excavating the Seismosaurus fossil and adding it to the museum's collection, Whitney receiving blue roses from someone who is implied to be Apollo, and Nook's Cranny being upgraded to [[Nook 'n' Go]], among others. In a post-credits scene, set one year after Ai moved into Animal Village, Ai narrates a letter written to her mother while running toward the museum to meet Celeste. The camera then pans down to show [[Lily of the Valley|lilies of the valley]] growing.
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==Characters==
The following characters appear in {{Film|nolink}} in order.
[[File:GDnM Characters.jpg|thumb|right|Various characters from the film]]

{| class="styled color-film" style="margin: 0 auto; text-align:center; width: 50%;"
|-
! style="width:10%" | Character
! style="width:10%" | Voiced by
! style="width:30%" | Description
|- 
| [[File:Ai GDnM.jpg|100px]]<br>[[Ai]]
| Yui Horie
| An 11-year-old human girl who moves to [[Animal Village]].
|- 
| [[File:Kapp'n GDnM.jpg|100px]]<br>[[Kapp'n]]
| Mitsuo Iwata
| A [[turtle|kappa]] who drives Ai to Animal Village in his [[taxi]].
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Pelly.png|150px]]<br>[[Pelly]]
| Otoha
| A pelican who works at the town hall. Ai visits her after arriving in the village, and Pelly directs her to Tom Nook.
|- 
| [[File:Tortimer GDnM.jpg|100px]]<br>[[Tortimer]]
| Kenichi Ogata
| An elderly tortoise who is the mayor of [[Animal Village]]. He meets Ai at the town hall, and he hosts the Winter Festival. Throughout the film, he worries about the results of the upcoming election, despite running unopposed. In the end, he wins the election by one vote—himself, as he was the only one who voted.
|- 
| [[File:Tom Nook GDnM.jpg|100px]]<br>[[Tom Nook]]
| Naoki Tatsuta
| A [[raccoon|tanuki]] who owns [[Nook's Cranny]], the village shop. He employs Ai part-time after she arrives in town.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Timmy.png|150px]]<br>[[Timmy and Tommy|Timmy]]
| Kimiko Koyama
| A young [[raccoon|tanuki]] who runs a stall at the [[Fireworks Festival]].
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Tommy.png|150px]]<br>[[Timmy and Tommy|Tommy]]
| Noriko Namiki
| A young [[raccoon|tanuki]] who runs a stall at the [[Fireworks Festival]].
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Hopper Fall.png|150px]]<br>[[Hopper]]
| Hisao Egawa
| A [[penguin]] who fishes in the lake.
|- 
| [[File:Rosie GDnM.jpg|100px]]<br>[[Rosie]]
| Misato Fukuen
| A [[cat]] who lives in Animal Village. Ai meets her during her deliveries while working for Tom Nook, and they become close friends.
|- 
| [[File:Alfonso GDnM.jpg|100px]]<br>[[Alfonso]]
| Takatoshi Kaneko
| An [[alligator]] who lives in Animal Village. Ai meets her during her deliveries while working for Tom Nook. He is close friends with Yū.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Yū Showing Face.png|150px]]<br>[[Yū]]
| Yū Kobayashi
| A human boy who often visits Animal Village. Ai meets him while making a delivery to Alfonso, whom Yū is close friends with. Yū often plays with Alfonso and wears various costumes, not revealing his face until the end of the movie.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Whitney.png|150px]]<br>[[Whitney]]
| Yurika Hino
| A [[wolf]] who lives in Animal Village. Ai meets her during her deliveries while working for Tom Nook. She consoles Ai after Margie moves away. She is rumored by the other villagers to have had a relationship with Apollo.
|- 
| [[File:Champ GDnM.jpg|100px]]<br>[[Champ]]
| Yasuhiro Takato
| A [[monkey]] who lives in Animal Village. He loves exercise, running everywhere he goes.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Mabel.png|150px]]<br>[[Mabel]]
|  Saori Hattori
| A hedgehog who operates the Able Sisters with her sister Sable.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Sable.png|150px]]<br>[[Sable]]
| Mari Adachi
| A hedgehog seamstress who operates the Able Sisters with her sister Mabel.
|- 
| [[File:Margie GDnM.jpg|100px]]<br>[[Margie]]
| Fumiko Orikasa
| An [[elephant]] who lives in Animal Village. Ai meets her at the Able Sisters, and they become close friends. Her dream is to become a fashion designer, and she leaves Animal Village to pursue it. She returns to visit when Gulliver appears.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Mr. Resetti.png|150px]]<br>[[Mr. Resetti]]
| Yuichi Kimura
| A mole who is the "rule enforcer" of Animal Village. He scolds Ai after she falls on Apollo's blue roses, and he decorates the village's trees during the Winter Festival.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Blathers.png|150px]]<br>[[Blathers]]
| Kappei Yamaguchi
| An owl who curates the [[museum]]. He is Celeste's brother.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Celeste.png|150px]]<br>[[Celeste]]
| Mika Kanai
| An owl who operates the [[observatory]] in the [[museum]]. She is Blathers's sister.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Brewster.png|150px]]<br>[[Brewster]]
| Takaya Hashi
| A [[pigeon]] who operates [[The Roost]], a café in the basement of the museum.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Cesar.png|150px]]<br>[[Cesar]]
| Kazuya Tatekabe
| A [[gorilla]] who lives in Animal Village. Ai meets him with Cyrano at The Roost.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Cyrano.png|150px]]<br>[[Cyrano]]
| Yuji Ueda
| An [[anteater]] who lives in Animal Village. Ai meets him with Cesar at The Roost.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Apollo.png|150px]]<br>[[Apollo]]
| Masaki Terasoma
| An [[eagle]] who lives in Animal Village. Ai meets him at The Roost. He is rumored by the other villagers to have had a relationship with Whitney, and he is implied to leave her a bouquet of blue roses during the film's credits sequence.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Pascal.png|150px]]<br>[[Pascal]]
| Takashi Miike
| An [[otter]] who Tortimer visits for advice about his election.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM K.K. Slider.png|150px]]<br>[[K.K. Slider]]
| Shun Oguri
| A dog musician who performs "[[K.K. Bossa]]" during the [[Fireworks Festival]] at the request of Margie.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Redd.png|150px]]<br>[[Redd]]
| Tetsuo Sakaguchi
| A [[fox]] who operates a shop during the Fireworks Festival. He attempts to sell fake golden slingshots to Yū and Alfonso.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Wendell.png|150px]]<br>[[Wendell]]
| Junpei Takiguchi
| A hungry [[walrus]] who Ai meets on the beach. She brings him to her house and feeds him.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Pete.png|150px]]<br>[[Pete]]
| Akio Suyama
| A pelican postman who delivers Margie's goodbye letter to Ai.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Phyllis.png|150px]]<br>[[Phyllis]]
| Yuko Mizutani
| A [[pelican]] who appears alongside Pelly in several scenes.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Gulliver.png|150px]]<br>[[Gulliver]]
| Wataru Takagi
| A [[gull]] who crash-lands his UFO in Animal Village. He claims to be an alien.
|- 
| [[File:GDnM Alien.png|150px]]
| -
| An alien that disguises itself as a piece of Gulliver's UFO. It reveals itself when UFOs appear above the village, and it flies to them.
|}

===Background characters===
The following characters appear only during the [[Fireworks Show|Fireworks Festival]] and do not have speaking roles.
*[[Dr. Shrunk]]
*[[Lyle]]
*[[Kaitlin]] 
*[[Katie]]
*[[Saharah]]

==Production==
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''Gekijōban Doubutsu no Mori'' was announced in May 2006 in an issue of ''Hochi Shimbun'',<ref name="Nintendo announces Animal Crossing film">{{Cite web|author=Ferry Groenendijk|date=May 15, 2006|url=http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2006/05/15/nintendo-announces-animal-crossing-film.htm|title=Nintendo announces Animal Crossing film|site=Video Games Blogger}}</ref> a Japanese online magazine, following the success of {{WW}}. Jōji Shimura, who previously worked on other animated films, directed the film, and staff from the {{SER}} assisted production.<ref name="Nintendo announces Animal Crossing film"/>

In October 2007, Nintendo of America stated there were no plans to localize the film for North America.<ref>{{Cite web|author=RawmeatCowboy|date=October 30, 2007|url=https://gonintendo.com/?p=28316|title=No plans to bring Animal Crossing move to North America|site=GoNintendo}}</ref>

===Music===
The film features arrangements of several songs from {{WW|nolink}}, originally composed by [[Kazumi Totaka]]. One song, "[[K.K. Bossa]]", was given original lyrics by Nintendo for the film. "[[Mori e Ikō]]" is an original song that plays during the credits sequence, performed by Taeko Onuki and composed by Issei Bedaaka.

==Release==
===Theatrical===
[[File:GDnM Poster Back.jpg|thumb|left|150px|The back of the theatrical release poster]]
''Gekijōban Doubutsu no Mori'' was released theatrically in Japan on December 16, 2006 by Toho and became the third highest-grossing film of its opening weekend, earning approximately ¥246 million (US$2,085,729).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/by-year/2006/?area=JP|title=Japanese Box Office Weekends For 2006|site=Box Office Mojo}}</ref> By the end of 2006, the film had a total revenue of ¥1.526 billion (US$12,915,432),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2006/?area=JP|title=Japanese Box Office For 2006|site=Box Office Mojo}}</ref> becoming the 30th highest-grossing film that year in Japan, and by the end of its theatrical run in 2007, it had earned approximately ¥1.7 billion (US$16,216,731).<ref name="Box office"/> Viewers who pre-purchased tickets to the film received vouchers which could be redeemed for one of the six [[golden tools]] in {{WW|nolink}}.<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 14, 2006|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518095644/http://aikodeshow.at.webry.info/200612/article_10.html|title=金の釣竿と金の斧と金のパチンコと|site=Aiko de Show|archive-date=May 18, 2015|language=Japanese}}</ref> 

===Home media===
[[File:GDnM DVD Set.jpg|thumb|right|A DVD set for the film]]
A soundtrack for the film, titled ''[[Gekijōban Doubutsu no Mori: Original Soundtrack]]'', was released on CD on December 13, 2006, three days before the film's premiere in theaters. It features 46 tracks from the film as well as five bonus tracks from {{WW}}.

''Gekijōban Doubutsu no Mori'' was released on region 2 DVD in Japan on July 25, 2007 by VAP,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vap.co.jp/doubutsunomori/dvd/|title=『劇場版どうぶつの森』、2007年7月25日DVDリリース＆レンタル開始|site=VAP|language=Japanese}}</ref> retailing for ¥3,990<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027055957/http://www.doubutsunomori-movie.jp/dvd/index.html|title=劇場版 「どうぶつの森」｜DVD情報|doubutsunomori-movie.jp|archive-date=October 27, 2007|language=Japanese}}</ref> (US$37.12). First-print copies also included an ''Animal Crossing''-themed carrying case.

===Television broadcasts===
{{Film|nolink}} has been broadcast on Japanese television several times. Below is a table of known broadcasts of the film:

{| class="styled color-film" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Date
! Time ({{tt|JST|Japan Standard Time}})
! Channel
! Ref.
|-
| October 4, 2008
| 12:00 PM
| {{Wp|Kids Station}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|author=Kids Station Inc.|date=October 4, 2008|title=October 4th Program Guide|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007063018/http://www.kids-station.com/program/daily.20081004.html|site=Kids Station|retrieved=May 31, 2023|archive-date=October 7, 2008}}</ref>
|-
| October 12, 2008
| 9:00 PM
| Kids Station
| <ref>{{Cite web|author=Kids Station Inc.|date=October 12, 2008|title=October 12th Program Guide|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015040052/http://www.kids-station.com/program/daily.20081012.html|site=Kids Station|retrieved=May 31, 2023|archive-date=October 15, 2008}}</ref>
|-
| March 20, 2020
| 4:00 PM
| Kids Station
| <ref>{{Cite web|author=Kids Station Inc.|date=March 20, 2020|title=Broadcast Schedule|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319155609/https://www.kids-station.com/program/schedule|site=Kids Station|retrieved=May 31, 2023|archive-date=March 19, 2020}}</ref>
|-
| March 21, 2020
| 12:00 PM
| Kids Station
| <ref>{{Cite web|author=Kids Station Inc.|date=March 21, 2020|title=Broadcast Schedule|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200320162947/https://www.kids-station.com/program/schedule|site=Kids Station|retrieved=May 31, 2023|archive-date=March 20, 2020}}</ref>
|-
| March 27, 2020
| 11:30 AM
| Kids Station
| <ref>{{Cite web|author=Kids Station Inc.|date=March 27, 2020|title=Broadcast Schedule|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327034109/http://www.kids-station.com/program/schedule|site=Kids Station|retrieved=May 31, 2023|archive-date=March 27, 2020}}</ref>
|-
| May 16, 2020
| 12:00 PM
| Kids Station
| <ref>{{Cite web|author=Kids Station Inc.|date=May 16, 2020|title=Broadcast Schedule|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200516002139/https://www.kids-station.com/program/schedule|site=Kids Station|retrieved=May 31, 2023|archive-date=May 15, 2020}}</ref>
|-
| July 29, 2020
| 7:00 AM
| BS12
| <ref>{{Cite web|author=World Hi-Vision Channel, Inc.|title=Gekijōban Doubutsu no Mori|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711073354/https://www.twellv.co.jp/program/anime/doubutsunomori_gekijo/|site=BS12|retrieved=May 31, 2023|archive-date=July 11, 2020}}</ref>
|}
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==Gallery==
{{Gallery}}
<gallery>
GDnM Poster (Spring).jpg|Alternate theatrical poster
GDnM DVD Cover Front.png|DVD cover
Ai GDnM Artwork.png|[[Ai]]
Rosie GDnM Artwork.png|[[Rosie]]
Margie GDnM Artwork.png|[[Margie]]
Tom Nook GDnM Artwork.png|[[Tom Nook]]
</gallery>

==Trivia==
*During the credits sequence, a present attached to a [[balloon]] appears in nearly every outdoor scene.

==Names in other languages==
{{Foreignname
|ja=劇場版 どうぶつの森
|ja-r=Gekijōban Dōbutsu no Mori
|ja-m=Animal Forest: The Movie
}}

==Notes==
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071028003739/http://www.doubutsunomori-movie.jp/ Official website] (archived)
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H7axg6Uaos Theatrical trailer #1] on YouTube
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqzhrVMreBk Theatrical trailer #2] on YouTube
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hf6u_7Bo1g Theatrical trailer #3] on YouTube
*[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190545/ ''Animal Crossing: The Movie'' (2006)] on IMDb

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