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Directed by | Masahiro Hosoda |
Produced by | Rioko Tominaga Gyarmath Bogdan |
Screenplay by | Yūsuke Watanabe |
Story by | Akira Toriyama |
Based on |
Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama |
Starring |
Masako Nozawa Kōichi Yamadera Masakazu Morita Masaharu Satō Hiromi Tsuru Mayumi Tanaka Ryō Horikawa Toshio Furukawa Tōru Furuya Takeshi Kusao Jōji Yanami |
Music by | Norihito Sumitomo |
Edited by | Shinichi Fukumitsu |
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Distributed by |
Toei Company 20th Century Fox |
Release date
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Running time
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85 minutes (theatrical) 105 minutes (Fuji TV) |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | $51.2 million |
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (Japanese: ドラゴンボールZ 神と神 Hepburn: Doragon Bōru Zetto: Kami to Kami?, lit. "Dragon Ball Z: God and God") is the eighteenth Japanese animated feature film based on the Dragon Ball series and the fourteenth to carry the Dragon Ball Z branding, released in theaters on March 30, 2013. It is the first Dragon Ball movie in 17 years to have a theatrical release, the last being the tenth anniversary movie in 1996, which followed the first three Dragon Ball films and the thirteen Dragon Ball Z films. Unlike previous theatrical Dragon Ball releases, this was a full feature-length production with a stand-alone release and not shown as part of the now-discontinued Toei Anime Fair (formerly the Toei Manga Matsuri).
It is the first-ever Japanese film to be screened at IMAX Digital Theaters, and was released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 13, 2013. Funimation acquired the North American rights to Battle of Gods and produced an English dub that they co-released with 20th Century Fox in North American cinemas in August 2014. Madman Entertainment acquired the Australasian rights and screened the movie at the 2013 Japanese Film Festival in Australia before screening the English dub to select theaters in August 2014, and Manga Entertainment released the film in the United Kingdom in November 2014.