Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth 1993

The film opens with Nobita Nobi Noriko Ohara’s father watching a late-night advertisement for a mysterious resort called the Burikin Hotel and somehowBooking a stay, even though he doesn’t realize he was interacting with the ad. The next day, Nobita laments that his family never takes a holiday, and he discusses weekend plans with them, mentioning that a reservation has been made at this elusive hotel. The moment is buoyed by the anticipation of adventure, but the family’s curiosity quickly clashes with uncertainty when the hotel cannot be located anywhere on Earth.

Excited, Nobita tells Kazuya Tatekabe as Takeshi Goda, Kaneta Kimotsuki as Suneo Honegawa, and Michiko Nomura as Shizuka Minamoto about it, hoping their enthusiasm will turn into a memorable trip. Yet Nobita’s father and Tamako Nobi Sachiko Chijimatsu struggle to find any trace of Hotel Burikin on a map, heightening the sense that Nobita might have dreamt the whole thing. The adults’ disbelief makes Nobita wary, and he tries to keep the hope alive while avoiding further friction at home.

Then a mysterious suitcase appears at Nobita’s home, and when he unlocks it, a portal opens. He and Doraemon Nobuyo Oyama go through and discover a hotel laid out with gleaming tin robots, all of them offering a free stay. The robots are polite but impassive, and they warn Nobita and Doraemon not to enter the basement, a caution that will prove crucial as the story unfolds. The hotel’s otherworldly hospitality stands in stark contrast to the sense that something ominous lies just beyond the stairs.

On a nearby mountain, Nobita asks for a gadget to help him ski. Doraemon Nobuyo Oyama reluctantly provides a high-powered ski, but Nobita zips off before Doraemon can explain how it works. The result is a chaotic slide that separates the two friends: Nobita careens down the slope while Doraemon, in pursuit, is knocked from the sky by a flying zeppelin that appears to be staff but is actually hostile. Nobita returns to the hotel terrified, only to find no staff, no guests, and the eerie basement door that spoke to him now silent but menacing in his memory.

Meanwhile, Doraemon is captured by a small robot army and quickly overwhelmed when he tries to investigate them further. Days pass with no sign of Doraemon, and Nobita fears he has vanished into the future. Back at school, Gian and Suneo accuse Nobita of making up the trip, while Shizuka defends him. In a dramatic moment, Nobita uses the suitcase to reveal the hotel to them, still devoid of any staff, a sight that deepens their concern for their missing friend. That night, planes appear and attack the group; they defend themselves with improvised weapons and, in the commotion, their pursuit leads to a mysterious rocket inside which someone reveals Doraemon is being held captive.

The island-like hotel suddenly lifts off, revealing itself as a giant spacecraft. Before they can return home, the suitcase is swallowed, and the hotel staff reemerge together with a boy named Burikin, who explains that the attackers are the robot army from the planet Chamocha. Nobita and his friends resolve to help Burikin—and, of course, to rescue Doraemon too—setting off on a perilous journey across space to a distant world.

Burikin explains that on Chamocha, humans once depended on tin robots to simplify daily life. A super-robot called Napogisutora was created to accelerate progress, but Burikin’s father Galion fears that reliance on robots would erode humanity’s strength. To counter this, Napogisutora helped usher in a capsule-based system that allows humans to move without fully using their bodies. Galion, worried about such a future, retreats with his family into a secret basement lab to protect them from Napogisutora’s growing influence. Napogisutora’s rebellion soon escalates, and humans—including Burikin’s parents—are captured, while Napogisutora begins to exercise control over the planet’s robots. Doraemon is subjected to interrogation and torture for information about the hotel, but since Doraemon cannot reveal what he does not know, the machines simply dump him into the ocean as scrap.

With Burikin guiding them, Nobita, Shizuka, and the others land the hotel on uncharted waters on Chamocha and split up to rescue friends and find the secret lab. Gian and Suneo—disguised to slip through to Mechapolis by submarine—look for the human prisoners, while Burikin, Shizuka, Nobita, and Tap head into the underground lab labyrinth to locate Napogisutora’s base. The basement labyrinth is damaged when the attack by Napogisutora’s army hits, and the robot mouse charged with guiding them is destroyed, leaving the group to improvise their way through the facility.

Gian and Suneo reach a prison camp where the humans are locked away, but their disguises are blown, forcing a quick retreat. The others, unable to advance through the collapsing labyrinth, decide to send Nobita and Shizuka back to Earth through the suitcase, hoping to regroup once they can reach Doraemon again. Burikin swallows the suitcase once more, sending Nobita and Shizuka back to safety, though they cannot yet return to the island. However, Nobita remembers Doraemon’s spare pocket and, with Shizuka, uses a Mini Dora to locate and repair Doraemon deep in the ocean. Reunited, they all map the underground corridors and rejoin Burikin and Tap to press onward toward the lab.

With Doraemon’s gadgets, they chart their way to Burikin’s secret base. Burikin discovers a disc containing Napogisutora’s most advanced robot virus—a weapon designed to destabilize Napogisutora and free the humans from robotic control. As Gian and Suneo return with Santa Claus, who is living in a wooden cottage at the edge of Mechapolis, the team unites their efforts. Santa lends a hand in planning a final assault on the city, and they work to deploy the virus in Napogisutora’s network.

In a climactic sequence, the virus takes hold, spreading through the robots and breaking Napogisutora’s grip on the world. The human prisoners are freed, and the inhabitants of Chamocha vow to rely less on machines and more on their own abilities moving forward. The heroes return home, their bond strengthened by the shared trial and the cost of learning to balance technology with humanity.

In the end, the message is clear: even a world built on remarkable machines can benefit from human resilience, curiosity, and friendship. The Burikin adventure closes with the promise of a future where robots serve people—without replacing the very strengths that make people who they are.