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

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

Country

Japan

Runtime

47 min

Rated

NR

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 778 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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.

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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)

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