Underplayed Gems

Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku (1990)

Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku poster
Original title
ドラゴンボールZ たったひとりの最終決戦〜フリーザに挑んだZ戦士 孫悟空の父〜
Directed by
Mitsuo Hashimoto
Genre
action film, adventure film, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country
Japan
Runtime
47 min
Rated
NR
Rating
7.6 of 10 from 778 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

More films like thisWatch the trailer

or watch the trailer on YouTube

How it feels

Before the planet Vegeta is destroyed, a Saiyan warrior named Bardock learns of the coming genocide and tries to stop it. He fights against overwhelming odds to save his people from extinction. This is the story of Goku's father.

somberaction-packedtragicfast-pacedfierceheroicmelancholicdesperate

What happens

Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku is the first television special of the Dragon Ball Z anime series, which is based on the Dragon Ball manga by Akira Toriyama. It was broadcast on Fuji Television on October 17, 1990, in-between episodes 63 and 64. Serving as a prequel to the entire series, the special takes place twelve years before the events of Dragon Ball, and depicts the final days of the Saiyan planet Vegeta before its destruction at the hands of Frieza, told from the perspective of Goku's biological father Bardock, who attempts to avert this from happening and save his race from genocide. The special inspired a sequel manga called Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock, which would be published in 2011 and adapted into a short film later that year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? You can browse by genre, country and year, or take this one into the 3D catalogue and ask the Catbot for something closer.