Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone

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Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone
Poster art
Japanese name
KanaドラゴンボールZ (original title)
ドラゴンボールZ オラの悟飯をかえせッ!!
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnDoragon Bōru Zetto (original title)
Doragon Bōru Zetto Ora no Gohan o Kaese!!
Directed byDaisuke Nishio
Screenplay byTakao Koyama
Based onDragon Ball by Akira Toriyama
Starringsee below
CinematographyMotoaki Ikegami
Edited byShinichi Fukumitsu
Music byShunsuke Kikuchi
Production
company
Distributed byToei Company
Release date
  • July 15, 1989 (1989-07-15) (Japan)
Running time
42 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office¥1.36 billion (est.)

Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone

Kidou Keiji Jiban. It was preceded by Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure and followed by Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest
.

Despite

canonicity of this arc is debated as it does not appear in the original manga
.

Plot

Almost five years later after following his defeat by

Son Gohan
, are attacked by the same group while her husband Goku is away fishing. He senses the danger his family faces and returns to find that his son has been abducted.

The

henchmen
while Kami faces Garlic Jr.

Krillin and Piccolo arrive with the latter defeating henchman Sansho while Goku manages to defeat the other two henchmen, Ginger and Nicky. Meanwhile, Kami is bested by Garlic Jr. until Goku and Piccolo rescue him. With Garlic Jr.'s newly obtained immortality and a new, muscular form, the rivals Goku and Piccolo are forced to work together and are able to eventually defeat him. Still possessing disdain for one another and mistakenly believing Garlic Jr. to be dead, Goku and Piccolo prepare to fight when Garlic Jr. opens up a portal into another dimension; a void of darkness known as the Dead Zone. Gohan becomes enraged as he witnesses his father and friends in danger and releases his latent power, hurdling Garlic Jr. into his own vortex to be trapped for all eternity. Unable to recall the events, Gohan believes that his father defeated Garlic Jr. while Goku realizes his son has amazing hidden potential. Piccolo vows to defeat Goku while watching him and his friends depart while Garlic Jr. tries to find way to escape from the Dead Zone.

Cast

Character name Voice actor
Japanese English
Ocean Studios

(1997) 		Unknown/AB Groupe
(c. 2003)[1]
Funimation

(2005)
Goku Masako Nozawa Peter Kelamis David Gasman Sean Schemmel
Gohan Saffron Henderson Jodi Forrest Stephanie Nadolny
Piccolo Toshio Furukawa Scott McNeil Big Green Christopher Sabat
David Gasman*
Kami Takeshi Aono Ward Perry (Green) God
Ed Marcus
Kuririn Mayumi Tanaka Krillin Clearin Krillin
Terry Klassen Sharon Mann Sonny Strait
Garlic Jr. (ガーリックJr., Gārikku Junia) Akira Kamiya Don Brown Doug Rand Chuck Huber
Ginger (ジンジャー, Jinjā) Kōji Totani Terry Klassen Ed Marcus (some lines)
David Gasman 		Troy Baker
Nicky (ニッキー, Nikkī) Shigeru Chiba Paul Dobson Ed Marcus Doug Burks
Sansho (サンショ) Yukitoshi Hori Ward Perry Doug Rand
David Gasman (one line)
Ed Marcus (one line) 		Eric Dillow
Ox King Daisuke Gōri Dave Ward David Gasman Kyle Hebert**
Chi-Chi Mayumi Shō Lisa Ann Beley Sharon Mann Cynthia Cranz
Shenlong Kenji Utsumi Shenron Sacred Dragon Shenron
Don Brown Ed Marcus Christopher Sabat
Bulma Hiromi Tsuru Lalainia Lindbjerg Bloomer Tiffany Vollmer
Sharon Mann
Kame-Sen'nin Kōhei Miyauchi Master Roshi Ed Marcus Master Roshi
Don Brown Mike McFarland
Narrator Jōji Yanami Doc Harris — Kyle Hebert

AB Groupe
dub at the beginning of this film, when Piccolo screams and destroys a large rock formation.

^** In Funimation's English credits, Christopher Sabat is miscredited as playing the Ox King, a mistake carried over to the 2006 dub of The World's Strongest.

Music

  • OP (Opening Theme):
  • IN (Insert Song):
    • "The World's Greatest Gohan" (天下一ゴハン, Tenka'ichi Gohan)
  • ED (Ending Theme):
    • "Come Out, Incredible Zenkai Power!" (でてこいとびきりZENKAIパワー!, Detekoi Tobikiri Zenkai Pawā!)

English dub soundtracks

The 1997 Pioneer release kept the original Japanese music.

There is a discrepancy that states the 2005 English dub score was composed by Mark Menza, which it was not. It was composed by Nathan Johnson. The Double Feature release that came out 3 years later in 2008 contains an alternate audio track containing the English dub with original Japanese background music by Shunsuke Kikuchi and an ending theme of "Come Out, Incredible Zenkai Power!".

Box office

At the Japanese box office, the film sold 2.2 million tickets and earned a net

distribution rental
income of ¥800 million.

International releases

North America

The film was licensed in North America by

Funimation Entertainment and the home video rights were sub-licensed to Pioneer Entertainment. Pioneer was released on VHS, LaserDisc, and DVD on December 17, 1997. They used the same voice cast as the TV series did at the time, and was dubbed by Ocean Productions. They released the film as Dead Zone. As a feature on the Pioneer DVD, deleted scenes from the original episodes 1 and 9 are shown in Japanese with English subtitles, as these two episodes were yet to be dubbed in full at the time.[2] Later, on August 13, 2013, Funimation released the Rock the Dragon Edition DVD set, which contained an edited version of the Ocean dub of this film, as well as The World's Strongest and The Tree of Might, as they aired on Toonami, along with the 53 edited episodes
of the TV series.

Once their sub-license expired, Funimation released the film on

5.1 surround mix. The film was re-released on DVD in remastered thinpak collection on November 1, 2011, containing the first five Dragon Ball Z films.[4]

Europe and Malaysia

AB Groupe, a French company that holds the license to the Dragon Ball franchise in most of Europe, licensed and dubbed the film, which they re-titled In Pursuit of Garlic.[5] This dub featured a voice cast that was unknown for years, but it is now believed that English-speaking voice actors in France were involved with this dub.[6] In Pursuit of Garlic aired on TV in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, and was sold on DVD in the Netherlands by Bridge Entertainment Group in 2003.[7]

Speedy Video, a Malaysian-based company, released the film on Video CD, here subtitled The Vengeance of the Demon King. Speedy also released the Pioneer English adaptation on VCD.

Critical reception

GameFan magazine reviewed the DVD release in 1998 and gave it a B− rating.[8]

Notes

  1. Laserdisc
    release

References

  1. ^ "Dragon Ball Z: Big Green Dub Cast". Behind The Voice Actors. Archived from the original on 2015-10-08. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
  2. ASIN 6304677022
  3. ^ Nishio, Daisuke (2005-05-31), Dragon Ball Z - The Movie - Dead Zone, Funimation Prod, archived from the original on 2016-11-30, retrieved 2016-04-14
  4. ASIN B005HVWW3K
  5. ^ "Kanzenshuu • View topic - Where to buy the "Big Green Dub" DVDs from?". www.kanzenshuu.com. Archived from the original on 2017-01-22. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
  6. ^ "Dragon Ball Z: Big Green Dub Cast - Behind The Voice Actors". www.behindthevoiceactors.com. Archived from the original on 2015-10-08. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  7. ^ Back of DVD cover for In Pursuit of Garlic. Bridge Kids, 2003.
  8. ^ "Dragon Ball Z the Movie: Dead Zone DVD". GameFan. Vol. 6, no. 4. April 1998. p. 89.
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