Underplayed Gems

Dragon Ball: The Path to Power (1996)

Dragon Ball: The Path to Power poster
Original title
ドラゴンボール 最強への道
Directed by
Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Genre
action film, adventure film, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 20m
Rated
12
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 404 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young boy with a monkey tail joins a girl and a shapeshifter on a quest for magical balls. They fight a military group and a ninja.

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What happens

Dragon Ball: The Path to Power (Japanese: ドラゴンボール 最強への道, Hepburn: Doragon Bōru Saikyō e no Michi; lit. 'Dragon Ball: The Path to the Strongest'), is a 1996 Japanese animated fantasy martial arts adventure film and the seventeenth animated feature film based on Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball manga, following the first three Dragon Ball films and thirteen Dragon Ball Z films, and the final film in the series to use cel animation. It is an alternate retelling of the original Dragon Ball anime series, which borrows story elements from the first Dragon Ball search and the later Red Ribbon storyline. It was first released in Japan on March 2 at the Toei Anime Fair, along with the film version of Neighborhood Story. The film was produced to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the original Dragon Ball anime. It was also the last theatrically released Dragon Ball film produced up until the release of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods in 2013. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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