Dragon Ball: The Path to Power (1996)

Original title

ドラゴンボール 最強への道

Directed by

Shigeyasu Yamauchi

Genre

action film, adventure film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

12

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 404 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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.

fast-pacedlightheartednostalgicaction-packedwhimsicalretroadventurous

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)

Trailer

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