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Dragon Ball: The Path to Power

Dragon Ball: The Path to Power

19967.41h 20m

Overview

A retelling of Dragon Ball's origin with a different take on the meeting of Goku, Bulma, and Kame-Sen'nin. It also retells the Red Ribbon Army story; but this time they find Goku rather than Goku finding them.

Directed by Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Written by Akira Toriyama, Aya Matsui
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Top Cast

Masako Nozawa

Masako Nozawa

Son Goku (voice)

Hiromi Tsuru

Hiromi Tsuru

Bulma (voice)

Toru Furuya

Toru Furuya

Yamcha (voice)

Naoki Tatsuta

Naoki Tatsuta

Oolong (voice)

Naoko Watanabe

Naoko Watanabe

Puar (voice)

Kin'ya Aikawa

Kin'ya Aikawa

Master Roshi (voice)

Daisuke Gori

Daisuke Gori

Umigame (voice)

Kenji Utsumi

Kenji Utsumi

Commander Red/Shenlong (voice)

Masaharu Sato

Masaharu Sato

Staff Officer Black (voice)

Bin Shimada

Bin Shimada

General Blue (voice)

Themes & Keywords

androidmartial artsresurrectionremakequestshounenanime

About Dragon Ball: The Path to Power

Dragon Ball: The Path to Power is a animation, adventure, fantasy film released in 1996 exploring themes of android, martial arts, resurrection, remake, quest, shounen. Directed by Shigeyasu Yamauchi, it stars Masako Nozawa, Hiromi Tsuru, Toru Furuya. A retelling of Dragon Ball's origin with a different take on the meeting of Goku, Bulma, and Kame-Sen'nin. It also retells the Red Ribbon Army story; but this time they find Goku rather than Goku finding them.

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