Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan
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| Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan | |
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| Directed by | Shigeyasu Yamauchi |
| Produced by | Chiaki Imada (Executive Producer) Yoshio Anzai (Shueisha) |
| Written by | Takao Koyama (screenplay) Akira Toriyama (story) |
| Starring | Masako Nozawa (Son Gokū / Son Gohan) Bin Shimada (Broly) Ryo Horikawa (Vegeta) Toshio Furukawa (Piccolo) Takeshi Kusao (Trunks) Mayumi Tanaka (Kuririn) Naoki Tatsuta (Oolong) Kohei Myauchi (Kamesennin) Hiromi Tsuru (Bulma) Naoko Watanabe (Chi Chi) Hiroko Emori (Bulma's Mom) Masaharu Satou (King Vegeta) Iemasa Kayumi (Paragas) Joji Yanami (North Kaio / Dr. Briefs / Narration) |
| Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
| Release date(s) | March 6, 1993 |
| Running time | 70 minutes |
| Language | Japanese/ English |
Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan, known in Japan as Dragon Ball Z: Moetsukiro!! Nessen Ressen Chō-Gekisen (ドラゴンボールZ 燃えつきろ!!熱戦・烈戦・超激戦 Doragon Bōru Zetto Moetsukiro!! Nessen Ressen Chō-Gekisen?, lit. "Dragon Ball Z: Burn Up!! A Close, Intense, Super-Fierce Battle"), is the eighth Dragon Ball Z movie. The original release date in Japan was on March 6th, 1993 between episodes 176 and 177.
Due to the popularity of this movie, it spawned two sequels, Broly: Second Coming and Bio-Broly.
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[edit] Summary
[edit] Introduction
While at a hanami picnic, during a painful singing session courtesy of Kuririn, a massive ship arrives. Out comes Paragas, one of the few surviving Saiyans. He invites Vegeta to rule a new Planet Vegeta. Vegeta initially refuses until Paragas appeals to Vegeta's ego by asking him to kill the Legendary Super Saiyan that has destroyed most of the southern galaxy.
Gohan, Trunks, Kuririn, Muten-Rôshi and Oolong depart with Vegeta.
King Kai had sensed the Legendary Super Saiyan in the galaxy so he sent Goku to stop him. By the time Paragas had arrived, Goku had already been searching for the Super Saiyan.
At first the group believes that Paragas has good intentions and honestly wants to create a new Planet Vegeta. Later on it is revealed that the planet is on a collision course with a large comet, Comet Kimori.
[edit] A New Planet Vegeta
Soon after Gohan, Trunks, Krillin, Muten-Rôshi, Oolong, and Vegeta arrive, a report comes in that the Legendary Super Saiyan is attacking another planet. Vegeta takes Paragas's son, Broly, and investigates.
While Vegeta and Broly are investigating the attack, Gohan, Trunks and Kuririn go out to investigate the new Planet Vegeta. They find a slave colony strip mining the planet to send energy to the palace. Gohan, Trunks and Kuririn quickly break up the slave labor going on at the colony. This is also when Goku arrives on the planet to be punched by Kuririn. Paragas also first meets Goku during this scene, and immediately identifies him as Burdock's son.
The first time that Broly sees Goku he immediately recognizes him and gets extremely angry. Broly relentlessly attacks Goku until Paragas brings him back under control by using a mind-control device put on him when he was a teenager. Unfortunately for Paragas, Broly has found a way to circumvent the mind-control which the device has over him.
During this scene we are told, by Paragas, that Goku and Broly were born on the same day. Broly was born with a fighting power of 10,000 while Goku was born with power level of 2. This is quite unusual since a grown human male(with a gun) has a power level of 5. It is said that Goku cried constantly, keeping Broly awake for days on end. From then on Broly would constantly hold a grudge against Goku.
After Paragas reflects on the past, Broly attacks Goku during the night. It is in this fight that we see Broly in his restrained Super Saiyan form. Towards the end of the fight Paragas reasserts control over Broly and forces him to stop attacking Goku. He barely manages to do so, foreshadowing things to come.
[edit] Battling the Legendary Super Saiyan
Eventually Gohan, Trunks and Kuririn bring the slaves they freed back to the palace, and they identify Broly as the one that attacked their planet. Broly walks towards Goku shouting, "Kakarott!" repeatedly. Broly goes into his restrained Super Saiyan form again while in the walk towards Goku. Vegeta transforms into his Super Saiyan form and attacks Broly but the attack has no effect. Then Paragas decides to reveal the entire story. Broly soon rages out of Paragas's control and becomes a monsterous behemoth of a Super Saiyan, his true and most powerful form. Vegeta, stunned by Broly's power, falls to the ground, eyes wide with fear.
Broly, raged beyond control, destroys the strip mines and the slaves' home planet. Broly goes after Goku and Gohan in a chase, destroying forests and slaves with a barrage of ki blasts. The chase stops and Goku says "No, you won't!" and turns Super Saiyan. Gohan follows suit and then Trunks comes to help and also transforms into his Super Saiyan form. This is when the action really starts. To make it short, the battle is Broly in his Legendary Super Saiyan form versus Goku, Gohan, and Trunks in their Super Saiyan forms. The battle gets intense, but remains completely one-sided. Then Piccolo shows up after Broly annihilates the boys and saves Gohan from a would-be-fatal attack. Piccolo then gets around to handing out everyone senzu beans. Not long after, the four warriors then decide to gang up on a patient Broly, who stands on a thin cliff. In only a matter of scenes, all four of them become annihilated by Broly again; Goku continuously gets punched in the face, Trunks and Gohan are both brutally closelined, and Piccolo is kicked twice, and then blown meters away from a ki blast into a cliff. Recovering from the blast, Piccolo attempts to get Vegeta to fight. In shock, he refuses, and is abandoned by Piccolo. Meanwhile, Goku is having a hard time doing anything to Broly, except giving him a good time. Vegeta, rediscovers his inner Super Saiyan pride, transforms into his Super Saiyan form once again, and joins the fight against Broly. His efforts, however, are futile as he is blown directly into a cliff and knocked unconscious. Broly later finds his father, Paragas, attempting to flee inside a Saiyan space pod, leaving his son to die in the explosion of the planet. Broly crushes the pod in return, and throws it directly at the comet.
Piccolo gets the idea for everyone to channel their power to Goku so he can defeat Broly. One by one they comply, except Vegeta. While gathering energy, Goku suffers at the hands of Broly; he is blown across the landscape by ki blasts, closelines, and very powerful punches. Finally, on the brink of defeat, Goku convinces Vegeta to help him. Goku then uses all the power that the Z-Warriors gave him to power one punch, defeating Broly. After dispatching Broly, Comet Kimori destroys the planet. However, the Z-Warriors and remaining slaves manage to escape in the Capsule Corp. spaceship Piccolo used to get there.
[edit] Cast list
| Character Name | Voice Actor (Japanese) | Voice Actor (English) | |
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| Son Gokū | Masako Nozawa | Sean Schemmel Stephanie Nadolny (Baby) |
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| Son Gohan | Masako Nozawa | Stephanie Nadolny | |
| Piccolo | Toshio Furukawa | Christopher Sabat | |
| Kuririn | Mayumi Tanaka | Sonny Strait | |
| Trunks | Takeshi Kusao | Eric (Johnson) Vale | |
| Vegeta | Ryo Horikawa | Christopher Sabat | |
| Bulma | Hiromi Tsuru | Tiffany Vollmer | |
| Kame-Sen'nin | Kôhei Miyauchi | Mike McFarland | |
| Chi-Chi | Naoko Watanabe | Cynthia Cranz | |
| Oolong | Naoki Tatsuta | Bradford Jackson | |
| Bulma's Mother | Hiroko Emori | Cynthia Cranz | |
| Dr. Brief | Joji Yanami | Chris Forbis | |
| Moa | Yasuhiko Kawazu | Sean Teague | |
| King Vegeta | Masaharu Satou | Christopher Sabat | |
| Broly | Bin Shimada | Vic Mignogna Cynthia Cranz (Baby) |
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| Paragas | Iemasa Kayumi | Dameon Clarke | |
| North Kaio | Joji Yanami | Sean Schemmel | |
| Narration | Joji Yanami | Kyle Hebert |
