Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Great Mermaid -New Edition- is a new work released in 2014 as part of the Doraemon movie series. The full animation of Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Great Mermaid -New Edition- is also translated as "Doraemon: Nobita and the Great Mermaid - Peko and the Five Explorers." It is a remake of the 1982 film "Doraemon: Nobita and the Great Mermaid" and is the fifth remake of a Doraemon long story movie, following "Nobita's Dinosaur 2006," "The New Record of Nobita: The Legend of the Sun King," "Nobita and the New Steel Troops," and "Nobita and the Birth of Japan 2016." The stage of Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Great Mermaid -New Edition- is the last unexplored frontier of Earth, a place no one has ever seen. Nobita picks up a stray dog in an empty lot, whose true identity is the son of King Bowan of the Bowan Lake Kingdom. He fled to Japan due to the ambitions of the evil minister Daburan. He will lead Nobita and his friends in a struggle against Daburan. In terms of production, the director of the 2014 Doraemon movie is Shin'nosuke Yakuwa, one of the main directors of the TV version of "Doraemon" and the first-time film director. The script is written by Higashi Shimizu, who has been responsible for the scripts of the recent three Doraemon animated movies (2011's "Nobita and the New Steel Troops," 2012's "Nobita and the Island of Miracles," and 2013's "Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum").