Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone

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Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone
Japanese box art
Directed by	Daisuke Nishio
Produced by	Hideki Goto Kōzō Morishita Hiroe Tsukamoto
Written by	Story: Akira Toriyama Screenplay: Takao Koyama
Starring	Masako Nozawa Akira Kamiya Hiromi Tsuru Mayumi Tanaka Daisuke Ghori Mayumi Sho Kohei Myauchi Toshio Furukawa Takeshi Aono Kenji Utsumi Joji Yanami
Music by	Shunsuke Kikuchi
Editing by	Pioneer, FUNimation, Ocean Group
Distributed by	Pioneer, FUNimation
Release date(s)	July 15, 1989
Running time	41 min.
Language	Japanese, English

Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone, known in Japan as Dragon Ball Z: Ora no Gohan o Kaese!! (ドラゴンボールゼット　オラの悟飯を返せッ!!, Doragon Bōru Zetto Ora no Gohan o Kaese!!^?, lit. "Dragon Ball Z: Return my Gohan!!") and originally simply titled Dragon Ball Z, is the first movie in the Dragon Ball Z franchise. (It was preceded by three Dragon Ball movies.) It was originally released in Japan on July 15, 1989, between episodes 11 and 12. It was translated in America by FUNimation's and Bridge Entertainment's title is The Pursuit of Garlic.

The movie was originally released in America on VHS and DVD in 1997. The English dub was a joint venture between Pioneer (now Geneon) Entertainment and FUNimation Entertainment. The dub used the Ocean Group (who also did the voices for the first two seasons of DBZ) and it featured dialogue accurate to the Japanese version and had the original Japanese background music. In 2005, the film was re-released as part of FUNimation's Ultimate Uncut Editions due to Geneon losing the distribution rights for seasons 1 and 2 of DBZ and the first three DBZ movies. The new dub featured FUNimation's voice actors and a new soundtrack replacing the original japanese soundtrack. In addition, the clips from DBZ episodes 1 and 9 featured on the Pioneer release were cut from the Funimation re-release, though a commentary is now presented with the dub voice of Garlic Jr., Chuck Huber, and Chris Cason; the ADR Director.

This movie, along with The World's Strongest and The Tree of Might, was released in a DVD box set labeled "First Strike" from FUNimation on November 14, 2006.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Music
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The movie begins with Piccolo being attacked and supposedly killed by a group of shadowed fighters. The movie then cuts to Goku's wife Chi-Chi along with her father, Ox King, and Goku's son, Gohan being attacked by an unknown group of fighters. Goku is out fishing during the attack and after sensing danger, he returns only to find his son had been kidnapped. The group responsible for the attack are Garlic Jr.'s henchmen, and it is later revealed that they were not so much holding Gohan ransom for any reason, but because they were after the four-star Dragon Ball that was attached to his hat. After retrieving the remaining Dragon Balls, Garlic Jr. summons Shenron and he immediately wishes for immortality. Shenron never having to grant this type of demand before, grants Garlic Jr. his wish. A furious Goku appears to try and take back his son, but soon discovers Garlic Jr.'s new power. Kami meets up with Goku, and describes a brief history of Garlic Jr. and his father Garlic, to Goku. Goku then proceeds to try to find Gohan when he is attacked by the villain's gang.

After brief fighting, Goku's loyal friend Krillin and his past arch-rival Piccolo appear and fight against Garlic Jr.'s Ginger, Nicky, and Sansho. And with Garlic Jr.'s newly obtained immortality and a new muscular second form, it seems not even Earth's warriors can take him down. Confident Garlic Jr. unleashes his ultimate attack, and bursting with anger, he opens up a portal known as the "Dead Zone" (hence the name of the film). Intending to suck his enemies into the void, Garlic Jr. becomes frustrated with Goku's ability to avoid the Dead Zone, and he decides to handle Goku himself, and later force him into the Dead Zone. Things looking extremely difficult for Earth's hero, Goku's son, Gohan, becomes enraged witnessing his father and friends in danger and releases his latent energy, blasting Garlic Jr. into his own vortex to be trapped for an eternity. Remarkably, in the end of it all, Gohan doesn't remember a thing of what happened, and with amazement, Goku figures his son is no ordinary boy, but one with supreme unmatchable power.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Cast

Character Name	Voice Actor (Japanese / Toei Animation)	Voice Actor (English / Ocean Group)	Voice Actor (English / FUNimation)
Son Gokū	Masako Nozawa	Peter Kelamis	Sean Schemmel
Son Gohan	Masako Nozawa	Saffron Henderson	Stephanie Nadolny
Piccolo	Toshio Furukawa	Scott McNeil	Christopher Sabat
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Lalainia Lindbjerg	Tiffany Vollmer
Kuririn	Mayumi Tanaka	Terry Klassen	Sonny Strait
Gyū-Maō	Daisuke Gōri	Dale Wilson	Kyle Hebert
Chi-Chi	Mayumi Shō	Laara Sadiq	Cynthia Cranz
Muten Rōshi / Kame-Sen'nin	Kōhei Miyauchi	Dave Ward	Mike McFarland
Kami-sama	Takeshi Aono	Michael Dobson	Christopher Sabat
Shenlong	Kenji Utsumi		Christopher Sabat
Garlic Jr.	Akira Kamiya	Dave Ward	Chuck Huber
Ginger	Kōji Totani	Terry Klassen	Troy Baker
Sansho	Yukinori Hori	Dave Ward	Eric Dillow
Nicky	Shigeru Chiba	Don Brown
Narrator	Jōji Yanami	Doc Harris	Kyle Hebert

[edit] Music

OP (Opening Theme)
1. "CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA" (Chara Hetchara) (OP animation 1)
  - Lyrics: Yukinojō Mori, Music: Chiho Kiyooka, Arrangement: Kenji Yamamoto, Vocals: Hironobu Kageyama
    - Song Lyrics

IN (Insertion Song)
1. "Tenka-ichi Gohan"; 天下一ゴハン (The World's Greatest Gohan)
  - Lyrics: Sakiko Iwamuro, Music: Takeshi Ike, Arrangement: Kenji Yamamoto, Vocals: Masako Nozawa (Son Gohan)
    - Song Lyrics

ED (Ending Theme)
1. "Detekoi Tobikiri ZENKAI Pawā!"; でてこいとびきりZENKAIパワー! (Come On Out, Incredible ZENKAI Power!)
  - Lyrics: Toshihisa Arakawa, Music: Takeshi Ike, Arrangement: Kenji Yamamoto, Vocals: MANNA
    - Song Lyrics