Yo-kai Watch movie
A Yo-kai Watch movie (映画 妖怪ウォッチ Eiga Yōkai Wotchi) is a theatrical film released in Japan in December that focuses on Yo-kai and as well the cast from the animation series. Each movie's length contains about an hour and is distributed by the Japanese film, theater production, and distribution company Toho.
The story of the movie mostly follows the protagonist Nathan Adams and his Yo-kai friends facing a bigger thread to save both human and Yo-kai World. In the first movie, he encounters the Yo-kai Hovernyan and with a stone, Nathan, Jibanyan and Whisper were sent back 60 years in the past. The second movie contains five different stories with the final story being the overall plot of the movie. The third movie contains a mixture between actors and animation characters and the fourth movie contains a tonal shift in the series, being more darker than it first was.
The movies are all written by Level-5 founder and Yo-kai Watch creator Akihiro Hino. When the movies open in Japan, they usually gross a large amount of money, mostly ranking first or second for their premiere weekend. Always at each movie, attendents receive gifts such as medals, download codes for games, posters or anything else in that way.
Movies
First series
| Nr. | Image | English title | English premiere | American distributor | Japanese title | Japanese premiere | Japanese distributor | Box office |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Yo-kai Watch: The Movie | October 15, 2016 | Fathom Events | 映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン! Eiga Yōkai Wotchi: Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan! |
December 20, 2014 | Toho | ¥7.8 billion |
| 2 |  |
映画 妖怪ウォッチ エンマ大王と5つの物語だニャン！ Eiga Yōkai Wotchi: Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan! |
December 19, 2015 | Toho | ¥5.2 billion | |||
| 3 |  |
映画 妖怪ウォッチ 空飛ぶクジラとダブル世界の大冒険だニャン！ Eiga Yōkai Wotchi: Soratobu Kujira to Daburu Sekai no Dai-bōken da-nyan! |
December 17, 2016 | Toho | ¥3.26 billion |
Shadowside series
| Nr. | Image | English title | English premiere | American distributor | Japanese title | Japanese premiere | Japanese distributor | Box office |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 |  |
映画 妖怪ウォッチ シャドウサイド 鬼王の復活 Eiga Yōkai Wotchi: Shadousaido Oni-ō no fukkatsu |
December 16, 2017 | Toho | ¥399 million |
Reboot series
| Nr. | Image | English title | English premiere | American distributor | Japanese title | Japanese premiere | Japanese distributor | Box office |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 |  |
映画 妖怪ウォッチ FOREVER FRIENDS Eiga Yōkai Wotchi Fōebā Furenzu |
December 14, 2018 | Toho |
Trivia
- The fourth movie is the only movie which sales are not comparable with its previous three movies. This marked Yo-kai Watch declining popularity.
- The fifth movie is not part of the Shadowside series, but the movie will be released during the Shadowside series span of anime and video games.