Crayon Shin-Chan: My Moving Story! Cactus Large Attack!

Plot

In the fictional Mexican town of Madakueruyobaka, a new species of cactus is discovered, whose buds provide a source of delicious honey. Futaba Shouji, the company where Hiroshi Nohara (Shinnosuke's father) works, sees this as a business opportunity and decides to open a branch office in Madakueruyobaka. Hiroshi is made the president of the Madaukeruyobaka branch and ordered to transfer to Mexico, where Hiroshi and his wife, Misae, decide the entire family should move.

After arriving in Mexico, the Nohara family begin their new life, adjusting to Mexican food, learning Spanish, wearing traditional Mexican attire, and meeting the locals. With the new cactus, a Cactus Festival is held in the town square, which Shinnosuke and Hiroshi attend. During the festival, one of the buds blooms, and turns into a giant killer cactus, spawning several smaller killer cacti. The cacti start attacking and eating people, causing panic. The Nohara family and town residents attempt to flee and escape the cacti. However, the only exit of the city collapses due to the Mayor of Madakueruyobaka accidentally causing the exit to explode.

While the cactus attacks again, Hiroshi and Misae try to find a means of escape, leaving the Mayor and Shinnosuke alone. The Mayor gives food to Shinnosuke, causing Shinnosuke the need to pee. Shinnosuke pees in a field where a small killer cactus shows up, causing the startled Shinnosuke to pee on the cactus, which shrivels and dies. Shinnosuke reports this discovery to the Mayor, Hiroshi, Misae, Rainbow Kamen, Carolina, and Sumaho-chan, and they figure out water is the cacti's weakness. They decide to defeat the killer cacti using water from the water supply tank. Hiroshi creates a plan to inject water into a large balloon called "Sabo-chan” and throw it at the Queen Cactus. The balloon would burst upon the cactus's thorns and kill the Queen Cactus.

The next day, the group (the Mayor, Shinnosuke, Hiroshi, Misae, Rainbow Kamen, Carolina, Sumaho-chan, and Mariachi), who name themselves the Madakueruyobaka Defense Group, enact the plan together. However, the Queen Cactus guards the balloon with its tentacles, making the balloon unable to burst. The Queen Cactus throws Shinnosuke into the air, and as he is in the air, he realizes he can use the needle of the KB badge he is wearing to burst the balloon. When Shinnosuke falls into the balloon, he pierces it with the needle. The balloon bursts with water, spouting all over the Queen Cactus, which withers and falls apart. Inside the cactus, it reveals all the previously swallowed people were alive. Peace returns to town, and the Cactus Festival resumes. The species of new cactus is never seen again, so the Mexican branch of Futaba Shouji is shut down, and Hiroshi is recalled back to the headquarters in Japan.

Characters specific to the movie

Killer Cactus

It is the main villain of the movie. The new species of cactus was going to be used to revitalize Madakueruyobaka because the honey-like buds could attract tourists and companies. Its fruit resembles a dragon fruit. During the Cactus Festival, the cactus turns into multiple killer carnivorous cacti, which starts eating people in the town center. The cacti prey on people by responding to sound, and its weakness is exposure to water.

The Queen Cactus is the main cactus that the Madakueruyobaka Defense Group fights against. It has strong vitality, and if cut, can rejoin its parts by grafting. In the final battle, all the other killer cacti merged with the Queen Cactus, but it was defeated when Shinnosuke burst the balloon filled with water. The eaten people were also safely released, as the cactus had not digested them yet.

From the setting of carnivorous plants eating traveling people, the influence of the Sci-Fi novel "The Day of the Triffids" has been pointed out.

Mayor of Madakueruyobaka

His real name is Duyaggo Eraindesu. He was born in Madakueruyobaka. Due to the town's desertion, he has attempted to revitalize the town by drawing tourists and companies with the discovery of the special cactus, but was halted due to killer cactus. Initially, he was obsessed with the cactus and the revitalization of the town, but later he joins the Madakueruyobaka Defense Group with defeating the Queen Cactus.

Nene Rodriguez/Rainbow Kamen

He is a masked Mexican Lucha Libre wrestler. He likes body building, and has a high-spirited personality, he but is timid and cowardly when he has to fight. He often fakes injuries so he does not have to go to the ring. He is part of the Madakueruyobaka Defense Group. After he was called a "sissy" by Sumaho-chan, he fought the final battle with Mariachi to defeat the Queen Cactus. After the cactus incident was resolved, he fought a battle with Luchador and won.

Voice Cast

Akiko Yajima as Shinnosuke Nohara

Miki Narahashi as Misae Nohara

Keiji Fujiwara as Hiroshi Nohara

Satomi Korogi as Himawari Nohara

Hiroaki Hirata as Mayor

Kenyuu Horiuchi as Nene Rodriguez/Rainbow Kamen

Daisuke Namikawa as Mariachi

Maaya Sakamoto as Carolina

Rino Sashihara as Sumaho-chan / Francisca

Akemi-chan as Akemi-chan, herself part of the laughter duo "Nippon Erekiteru Rengou" (Japan Elekitel Union)

Hosogai-san as Hosogai-san himself (part of Nippon Erekiteru Rengou)

Natsumi Uga as Uga Āna

Production

Promotion

Two teasers of the movie were released on 12 and 14 December 2014, and the trailer was released on 6 March 2015.

Yūki Yoshida, the producer of Shin-Ei Animation said that he wanted to do things "that shake the larger setting", and wanted to bring more "panic elements" in the story.

On 24 February 2015, it was announced that Rino Sashihara of HKT48 and the comedy duo Nippon Elekitel Union would appear as guest voice artists. For Nippon Elekitel Union, it was the first time the comedy duo worked for an animation film as voice actors. The additional guest voice artist in the movie is Natsumi Uga, the announcer of TV Asahi, who voiced the reporter during the Cactus Festival.

On 25 March 2015, an event called "Kasukabe Moving Ceremony" was held in Kasukabe City Hall to symbolize the Nohara family's moving. The Embassy of Mexico in Japan welcomed Shinnosuke Nohara (costumed person) who came to get a Mexican work visa, residence permit, and voting card for his parents. These were given symbolically in his own hands by ambassador Carlos Almada. Shinnosuke Nohara (costumed person) himself visited Mexico to promote the movie. He visited various places including a school, a cactus forest, and a beach in Mexico. Also, a special screening of the movie was held and premiered in a local school.

Music

On 30 January 2015, it was announced that Yuzu had been appointed to sing the theme song of the movie, titled "OLA!!". Yuzu had been appointed for an anime OST for the first time in two years, since 2013 for the movie HUNTERxHUNTER -The LAST MISSION-. A short version of "OLA!!" was used as the ending song for the Crayon Shin-chan anime television from 6 February 2015 till May 2015.

Opening Theme Song

Kimi ni 100 Percent (Warner Music Japan / unBORDE)

Lyrics : Yasutaka Nakata

Vocals: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

Ending Theme Song

「OLA!!」 (SENHA & Co.)

Lyrics: Kenichi Maeyamada

Vocals: Yuzu

Length

This is the third longest running Crayon Shin-chan movie, having a running time of 104 minutes. This is the third time that a Crayon Shin-chan feature film has crossed 100 minutes of length, after the 2011 movie Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: Operation Golden Spy (107 minutes) and the 2012 movie Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called!: Me and the Space Princess (111 minutes).

International release

The movies was released in several countries outside of Japan with varying distributors. In Singapore, the movie was released in theatres on 9 July 2015 with English and Chinese subtitles, having a PG-13 rating. In Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei, this is the first Crayon Shin-chan film to be distributed by Odex. In India, the movie was released on Hungama TV on 30 April 2017 as Shinchan Movie Kaanta Lagaa.. In Spain, the movie was released on 25 May 2019 in Kinépolis Ciudad de la Imagen after Fox (Spain) had acquired the emission rights. In Italian theatres, the movie was released on TBA film distributed by Lucky Red. In South Korea, the film grossed US$730,400 on its opening.

Media

Special Episodes

In Japan on TV Asahi, three special episodes related to the movie aired in the Crayon Shin-chan anime television on 6 March 2015 (Wakai futari wa kōshite ie o katta zo), 17 April 2015 (Take no ko dai shūgeki da zo) and 1 May 2015 (Shiro no hikkoshi monogatari da zo).

DVD and Blu-ray

On 6 November 2015, the DVD and Blu-ray of the movie was released in Japan by Bandai Visual.