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Crayon Shin-chan: Fierceness That Invites Storm! The Adult Empire Strikes Back (クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶ モーレツ!オトナ帝国の逆襲)

Crayon Shin-chan: Fierceness That Invites Storm! The Adult Empire Strikes Back (クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶ モーレツ!オトナ帝国の逆襲) is a 2001 Japanese animated comedy film, the ninth theatrical feature based on Yoshito Usui's manga Crayon Shin-chan. Directed and written by Keiichi Hara, it follows the kindergarten troublemaker Shinnosuke Nohara and his friends as they fight an organization that lures the adults of Kasukabe City into a nostalgia theme park and abandons the future. It opened in Japan on April 21, 2001, runs 89 minutes, and was distributed by Toho.1

Key factDetail
Series positionNinth film in the Crayon Shin-chan theatrical series; released April 21, 20011 • 2
Director and scriptKeiichi Hara, who also directed the previous film The Storm Called: Jungle; screenplay by Hara on a basis of Usui's original manga1
Length and distributor89 minutes; distributed by Toho1
AntagonistsThe organization "Yesterday Once More," led by Ken and Chako, which plans an adults-only "Adult Empire" that stops time1
MusicScore by Toshihiko Arakawa and Shiro Hamaguchi; theme song "Genki de Itene" by Sachiko Kobayashi3
Critical standingIn a Kinema Junpo poll, 22 committee members chose it first among the series' first ten films, well ahead of the runners-up4
Audience rating7.8 on IMDb from 1,877 votes5

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Plot

A theme park called the "20th Century Expo" suddenly opens in Kasukabe. It recreates old television programs, films, and daily life, and adults flock to it daily to immerse themselves in the familiar world; the children, Shinnosuke included, find it dull. Before long Hiroshi, Shinnosuke's father, stops going to work, his mother Misae stops doing housework, and Shinnosuke is left to look after his baby sister Himawari.2

This is the work of a group led by Ken and Chako, whose plan is to build a pleasant world for adults alone and stop time altogether. The adults of Kasukabe go to the 20th Century Expo and never come back, and a radio broadcast by the organization, calling itself "Yesterday Once More," urges the abandoned children to surrender. Shinnosuke and his friends, the Kasukabe Defense Force, infiltrate the park to take the adults back, and find their parents playing happily, fully regressed to childhood. In the film's resolution, the family breaks the brainwashing, the children's future is placed back in their own hands, and peace returns to Kasukabe.1 • 2

The park recreates the 1970s life in which Hiroshi and Misae grew up, which is what draws the adults into the nostalgic world.6

Production

Hara had directed the series' films since the fifth entry, and this was his fifth Shin-chan feature. The film's staff included Mizushima Tsutomu as episode director and co-storyboard artist, character designs by Sueyoshi Yuuichiro and Hara Katsunori, cinematography by Umeda Toshiyuki, and music by Arakawa Toshihiko and Hamaguchi Shiro.1 The voice cast includes Akiko Yajima as Shinnosuke, Miki Narahashi as Misae, Keiji Fujiwara as Hiroshi, and Satomi Korogi as Himawari, with the guest role of Ken credited to Masanori Tsukayama.3 • 1

A turning point for Hara. In later interviews Hara described the film as a major change in his own work: after four films in which he had worked out what a Shin-chan movie was supposed to be, on this one he "wanted to break out of that." He expected that stepping outside the rules of a children's anime would draw anger from the studio and rejection from the audience, and that he would be told he could not be trusted with the series again; instead the film was widely embraced.7 • 8 He later said that the experience fed directly into his next film, The Storm Called: The Battle of Warring States (2002), for which he wanted an ending that would stay deeply with viewers.9

The film was released in 2001, the year that had once stood as a symbol of the future, and Hara placed the story's skepticism toward contemporary Japan, the sense that reality had fallen far short of that imagined future, in the mouths of the antagonists.10

Reception and analysis

The film is regarded as a work that broke out of the frame of children's animation.11 In a Kinema Junpo magazine poll, 22 committee members selecting a best three from the series' first ten films placed The Adult Empire Strikes Back first, far ahead of the second-place entry.4 A comic adaptation was later published, described by its publisher as a complete comic version of one of the most highly regarded Shin-chan films alongside The Battle of Warring States.12

The film has drawn academic attention as a study of nostalgia consumption. A 2004 paper by Kentaro Yabe of Waseda University's graduate school of sociology, "The Consumption of Nostalgia: An Analysis of the Crayon Shinchan Movie 'Otona Empire Strikes Back'," analyzes how the film treats Showa-era nostalgia, noting that although the television anime was generally regarded as children's programming, the film series assumed an audience of children and their accompanying parents.4 • 13

Music and cast notes

Sachiko Kobayashi performed the theme song "Genki de Itene," continuing from the previous film The Storm Called: Jungle; the YouTube film summary records that this made her the first performer to sing the theme for multiple films in the series. The opening theme is "Dame Dame no Uta" by LADY Q with Shinnosuke and Misae Nohara, and Kobayashi's "Genki de Itene" also appears as an insert song.3 • 14 The film was the last in which Matsuo Ginzo voiced Hiroshi's father Ginzo Nohara.14

Home media and streaming

The film was released on home video by Bandai Visual in November 2002.15 As of 2026 it streams on multiple Japanese subscription services, including U-NEXT, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Lemino, and ABEMA, all offering it in their unlimited catalogs.16

References

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  2. 嵐を呼ぶ モーレツ！オトナ帝国の逆襲 | シンエイ動画 50周年記念サイト
  3. 映画クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶモーレツ！オトナ帝国の逆襲 | TVガイドWeb
  4. 矢部謙太郎「懐古趣味という消費」ソシオロジカル・ペーパーズ 13, 早稲田大学
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  6. 映画クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶモーレツ！オトナ帝国の逆襲 | WOWOWオンライン
  7. 日本アニメの旗手・原恵一監督と語る 第2回, Wedge ONLINE
  8. クレしん『オトナ帝国』が大きな転機に――映画監督・原恵一が振り返る30年, Medery. Character's
  9. 『クレヨンしんちゃん』あの名作が誕生しなかった可能性も？ 原恵一監督インタビュー, ガジェット通信
  10. 特集「映画監督 原恵一の世界」に寄せて (2), アニメハック
  11. 映画クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶモーレツ！オトナ帝国の逆襲, allcinema
  12. 映画クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶ モーレツ！オトナ帝国の逆襲（コミック版）, クレヨンしんちゃん公式ポータルサイト
  13. ノスタルジーの消費 -映画『クレヨンしんちゃんオトナ帝国の逆襲』分析-, 早稲田大学リポジトリ
  14. クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶ モーレツ!オトナ帝国の逆襲 - YouTube
  15. CiNii Books - 映画クレヨンしんちゃん嵐を呼ぶモーレツ!オトナ帝国の逆襲
  16. 『映画クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶ モーレツ！オトナ帝国の逆襲』の配信状況｜配信INDEX

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