Yo-kai Watch: The Movie

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie

2014 · 97 min · ★ 7.6 · Action, Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy

When the evil Yo-Kai Kin, Gin and Bronzlow makes the Yo-Kai Watch disappear from time so they can help Dame Dedtime prevent humans and Yo-Kai from being friends, Nate Adams finds help in the Yo-Kai Hovernyan, who takes Nate, Whisper and Jibanyan 60 years to the past, when the Yo-Kai Watch was first invented by Nate's grandfather, Nathaniel Adams, while he was a boy. Together, the 2 boys fight Dame Dedtime and her evil Wicked Yo-Kai minions to save the world from her evil plans.

Directed by Shigeharu Takahashi · Written by Yoichi Kato

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