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Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler

Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler

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19926.50h 46m

Overview

Cooler has resurrected himself as a robot and is enslaving the people of New Namek. Goku and the gang must help.

Directed by Daisuke Nishio
Written by Akira Toriyama, Takao Koyama
Box Office0Revenue: $19.6M

Top Cast

Masako Nozawa

Masako Nozawa

Son Gokû / Son Gohan (voice)

Toshio Furukawa

Toshio Furukawa

Piccolo (voice)

Mayumi Tanaka

Mayumi Tanaka

Kuririn / Yajirobe (voice)

Ryo Horikawa

Ryo Horikawa

Vegeta (voice)

Kohei Miyauchi

Kohei Miyauchi

Kame-sen'nin (voice)

Naoki Tatsuta

Naoki Tatsuta

Oolong (voice)

Tomiko Suzuki

Tomiko Suzuki

Dende (voice)

T

Toku Nishio

Mr. Popo (voice)

Toshio Kobayashi

Toshio Kobayashi

Guide Robo (voice)

Kazunari Tanaka

Kazunari Tanaka

Namekian (voice)

Themes & Keywords

martial artscyborgtransformationspace travelalienbased on mangamartial artistsuper powerdoppelgängerplanet invasionshounenanime

About Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler

Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler is a action, animation, science fiction film released in 1992 exploring themes of martial arts, cyborg, transformation, space travel, alien, based on manga. Directed by Daisuke Nishio, it stars Masako Nozawa, Toshio Furukawa, Mayumi Tanaka. Cooler has resurrected himself as a robot and is enslaving the people of New Namek. Goku and the gang must help.

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