Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might

Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might
Japanese box art
Directed by	Daisuke Nishio
Screenplay by	Takao Koyama
Based on	Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama
Starring	See below
Cinematography	Motoaki Ikegami
Edited by	Shinichi Fukumitsu
Music by	Shunsuke Kikuchi
Production company	Toei Animation
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date	July 7, 1990 (1990-07-07) (Japan)
Running time	65 minutes
Country	Japan
Box office	¥1.36 billion (est.)

Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might^[a] is a 1990 Japanese anime science fantasy martial arts film and the third Dragon Ball Z feature film. It was originally released in Japan on July 7 between episodes 54 and 55 of DBZ, at the "Toei Anime Fair" film festival, where it was shown as part of an Akira Toriyama-themed triple feature titled Toriyama Akira: The World (the other two films were anime versions of his one-shot stories Kennosuke-sama and Pink). It was preceded by Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest and followed by Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug.

Plot

A

^* The narration provided by Doc Harris for the 1997 version was cut out when this version was edited into a single-part film.

Music

• OP (Opening Theme):
  • "Cha-La Head-Cha-La"
    • Lyrics by
      Yukinojō Mori
    • Music by Chiho Kiyooka
    • Arranged by
      Kenji Yamamoto
    • Performed by Hironobu Kageyama
• ED (Ending Theme):
  • Marugoto (まるごと, "The Whole World")
    • Lyrics by Dai Satō
    • Music by Chiho Kiyooka
    • Arranged by
      Kenji Yamamoto
    • Performed by Hironobu Kageyama ft. Ammy

Both songs were included on the 1990 compilation Akira Toriyama: The World.

English dub soundtracks

1997

• OP (Opening Theme):
  • "
    Rock the Dragon
    "
    • Performed by Jeremy Sweet^[3]
• ED (Ending Theme):
  • "End Title"
    • Performed by Jeremy Sweet^[3]

The score for the 1997 Saban TV version was composed by

2006

• OP (Opening Theme):
  • "Dragon Ball Z Movie Theme"
    • Performed by Mark Menza
• ED (Ending Theme):
  • "Dragon Ball Z Movie Theme"
    • Performed by Mark Menza

The score for the 2006 English dub's composed by Nathan Johnson. The Double Feature release contains an alternate audio track containing the English dub with original Japanese background music by Shunsuke Kikuchi, an opening theme of "Cha-La Head-Cha-La", and an ending theme of "Marugoto".

The 1998 Pioneer release, 2003 AB Groupe dub and Speedy Video dub all kept the original Japanese songs and background music.

Content edits

Funimation's first dub of The Tree of Might done in association with

• In order to increase time for the film to be a three-part episode, several scenes from the series were added, such as when Shenron is summoned, when Turles, his henchmen, and Piccolo make their first appearances in the film, and most of King Kai's scenes.[6]
• Blood was completely edited out in the film and the violence was toned down as well. For example, scenes where a character was punched or kicked hard were blocked by flashes of light.^[6]
• The scene where Turles forces Gohan to transform into a Great Ape by holding his face and forcing him to keep his eyes open was edited, having Turles hold him by his shoulders instead. At the same time when Gohan looks at the fake moon, no heartbeat sound effects existed in the Japanese and English uncut versions, but were digitally edited in background in the English edited version. During that same scene, when Gohan's tail grows out of his pants, the sound effect of it ripping through his pants were also edited.^[6]
• The scene where Turles has his foot on top of Goku was edited.^[6]
• The scenes where Gohan is nude after he reverts from his Great Ape form, were edited, but he was covered up by some means, such as adding extended lighting to the scene where Goku catches Gohan after cutting off his tail or adding a digital bush in front of him during the scene.^[6]

This dub edited the film into a three-part television episode, which first aired in North American countries during November 1997

In 2013, Funimation released the edited film on DVD of Rock the Dragon Edition, but instead of being presented in the episodic format in which it originally aired, it was presented as a stand-alone film on the final disc of the set.

Box office

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

Funimation later sub-licensed the home video rights for the film to Pioneer Entertainment who, also in association with Ocean Productions, re-dubbed the film, and released it uncut on VHS and DVD on March 17, 1998, featuring the then-current English voice cast from the TV series, dialogue more accurately translated from the original Japanese script, and the original Japanese background music.^[5] Since then, Funimation released the edited film of Rock the Dragon Edition set with Ocean dub on DVD on August 13, 2013, it has 53 edited episodes of the TV series, plus two edited films of Dead Zone and The World's Strongest as they aired on Toonami.

Once their sub-license expired, Funimation also released the film to

References