Yo-kai Watch: The Movie, released in Japan under the name Yo-kai Watch: Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan!, is a 2014 Japanese animated fantasy adventure film directed by Shigeharu Takahashi and Shinji Ushiro as part of the Yo-kai Watch franchise.
One night, the evil Yo-kai Kin and Gin steal the Yo-kai Watch from Nate Adams to help their master to prevent humans and Yo-kai from being friends. He then encounters Meganyan, who tells him that Yo-Kai are real. He and the crew head to Nate's grandmother, encounter a shadow, and chase it, but to no avail. Meganyan returns, asking to pull out the cork in his body—the cork that suppresses his energy. Nate decides not to pull it out, and asks Jibanyan & Whisper to pull it out for him, but to no avail. Nate pulls it out, and he and the crew get covered in pink smoke. He finds help from the Yo-kai Hovernyan - and uses a time stone to take Nate, Whisper, and Jibanyan back in time 60 years to when the Yo-kai Watch was first invented by Nate's own grandfather Nathaniel while he was a kid. Dame Dedtime gets word of this, and tries a plan to push the human world farther from the Yo-kai world. Together, the two boys battle Dame Dedtime and her evil Wicked Yo-kai minions to save the world from her evil plans.
In September 2016, it was revealed via the Fathom Events website that the movie would be screened one time only on October 15, in select cinemas across the United States. Attendees received an exclusive Hovernyan medal at the screening. It made its premiere on American television on Disney XD on Saturday, November 12, 2016 after the premiere of the "Yo-kai Watch" anime episode "Whisper's Secret Past", with further showings on Sunday, November 13 and Monday on the 14.
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The film set a new record for Toho for advance ticket sales, with 721,422 sold by October 26 reaching 840,000 by late November and more than 1 million by mid-December. The film was number-one on its opening weekend, with ¥1.629 billion, a record for a Japanese film, previously held by Howl's Moving Castle. Reached ¥5 billion by its third weekend, ¥6.54 billion by the fourth weekend and ¥7 billion by the sixth weekend. The film grossed ¥7.8 billion ($73,623,259) at the Japanese box office, where it was the highest-grossing domestic film of 2015.
Overseas, the film grossed ₩1.98 billion ($1.69 million) upon its opening in South Korea, and went on to gross ₩3,888,698,100 ($3,437,804) there for The film also grossed $257,343 in the United States and Canada, and $1,715,393 in France, the United Arab Emirates, and Thailand, bringing the film's worldwide gross to $80,268,947.