Dragon Ball: The Path to Power
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| Japanese | ドラゴンボール 最強への道 |
| Hepburn | Doragon Bōru Saikyō e no Michi |
| Directed by | Shigeyasu Yamauchi |
| Produced by | Tan Takaiwa Yoshio Anzai Tsutomu Tomari |
| Written by | Aya Matsui |
| Based on | Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama |
| Starring | See Cast |
| Music by | Akihito Tokunaga |
| Cinematography | Masaru Sakanishi |
| Edited by | Shinichi Fukumitsu |
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| Distributed by | Toei Company |
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80 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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?), is the seventeenth Japanese animated feature film based on Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball manga, following the first three Dragon Ball films and thirteen Dragon Ball Z films. It is a re-telling of the original Dragon Ball anime series, mixing the elements from the first Dragon Ball search and the later Red Ribbon storyline. It was originally released in Japan on March 2, 1996 at the Toei Anime Fair, along with the movie 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 movie produced up until the release of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods in 2013.
Goku is a monkey-tailed boy with superhuman strength and skilled in martial arts, living all alone on Mount Paozu. One day, after he catches a fish to eat, a girl in a car (Bulma) almost hits him. He mistakes the car for a monster and throws it onto its side, but gets shot by Bulma in return. He thinks she's some kind of demon, but she ends up convincing him she's human, even though she doesn't have a tail. He invites her into his house since his dead grandpa always told him to be nice to girls, and there she goes straight for his only keepsake. When they go in the house Goku shows Bulma an orange glowing ball that he thinks is his grandpa. All of a sudden Bulma comes to life and asks if she can have the ball. When Goku protests, she brings out two more "grandpas", and explains to him the legend of the Dragon Balls and the Eternal Dragon. She offers to let him feel her up to get him to come along, but when that doesn't work, she tells him it'll help him get stronger. He agrees, and off they go.
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