| Dragon Ball Z:Broly– The Legendary Super Saiyan | |
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| Directed by | Shigeyasu Yamauchi |
| Screenplay by | Takao Koyama |
| Based on | Dragon Ball byAkira Toriyama |
| Starring | Seebelow |
| Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
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| Distributed by | Toei Company |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | ¥2.43 billion $21.7 million (worldwide) |
Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan[a] is a 1993 Japaneseanimescience fictionmartial arts film and the eighthDragon Ball Z feature film. The original release date in Japan was on March 6, 1993, at the Toei Anime Fair alongsideDr. Slump and Arale-chan: N-cha! Clear Skies Over Penguin Village. It was dubbed into English and released byFunimation in 2003. It was preceded byDragon Ball Z: Super Android 13! and followed byDragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound.
Broly was created by Takao Koyama and was designed by series creatorAkira Toriyama.[1] This film is the first of three titular films featuring the character, followed byBroly – Second Coming andBio-Broly in 1994. The character also appeared inDragon Ball Z: The Real 4-D at Super Tenkaichi Budokai, a cinematic attraction atUniversal Studios Japan in 2017.
In 2018, areboot film titledDragon Ball Super: Broly was released and served as a retelling of Broly's origins and character arc, taking place after the conclusion of theDragon Ball Super television series.
King Kai senses the destruction of the south galaxy by a Super Saiyan and realizes that the north galaxy will be targeted next. Hetelepathically contactsGoku, who begins tracking the Super Saiyan's energy.
On Earth, a spaceship interrupts a picnic, and an army ofhumanoid alien soldiers greetVegeta. Their leader is revealed to be a Saiyan named Paragus who claims that he has created a new Saiyan planet and wishes for Vegeta to assume the throne. Vegeta agrees after Paragus tells him that the "Legendary Super Saiyan" is running rampant throughout the galaxy and must be stopped.Gohan,Future Trunks,Krillin,Master Roshi andOolong accompany Vegeta onto the ship.
On New Vegeta, Vegeta meets Paragus's son,Broly, who joins him in tracking the Super Saiyan. Gohan, Trunks, and Krillin explore New Vegeta and discover that it is uninhabited except for alien slaves who reveal that a Super Saiyan destroyed their civilization. The masters begin to abuse them, but are fended off by Gohan and Krillin. Goku arrives and is greeted by Paragus, who recognizes him as Bardock's son and invites them to dinner at the palace. Broly is agitated at the mere sight and presence of Goku. Paragus controls his son by using a device on his bracelet that syncs to Broly's headband. Despite this, Broly attacks Goku at night, requiring Paragus to calm him. Goku suspects that Broly is the Super Saiyan, and Paragus contemplates the mind-control device and suspects that it is malfunctioning due to Broly responding aggressively to Goku. Paragus theorizes that Broly's violent Saiyan instincts are awakening due to Goku's power, then remembers they were born on the same day in an attempt to explain their fated encounter after all these years.
Goku and the others confront Paragus upon learning the truth about Broly as his aggression toward Goku swells. Broly breaks free of the mind control device and transforms into the Legendary Super Saiyan. Broly attacks Goku, who Trunks and Gohan defend, while a fearful Vegeta loses his will to fight before the Legendary Super Saiyan. Paragus taunts Vegeta while revealing that Broly was born with a power level of 10,000 and was feared by King Vegeta, who ordered Broly's execution. Paragus failed to persuade King Vegeta to spare Broly's life, who was pierced in the abdomen by a knife and left for dead with his father. At the same time,Frieza destroyed the planet that same day, where Bardock tries to defeat him unsuccessfully. Broly's survival instincts caused him to shield himself and Paragus, and they soared off into space protected by Broly's power. Broly grew unstable and sadistic as he aged. Paragus was forced to use a mind-control device to pacify his son, but planned to use him to exact his revenge on King Vegeta's bloodline and convert the Earth into New Planet Vegeta. Paragus reveals that acomet is approaching New Vegeta and will destroy it upon impact.
Goku, Gohan, and Trunks are dominated by Broly untilPiccolo arrives and heals them with Senzu Beans. They engage Broly again, but continue to be severely outmatched. After being scolded by Piccolo, Vegeta's pride finally returns, and he confronts Broly, but is quickly incapacitated. Paragus prepares to escape the doomed planet in a small space pod before he is confronted and killed by Broly. Despite Broly's power continuing to increase, Goku manages to challenge him yet again, and he is mercilessly beaten as he asks his allies to lend him theirki. After much reluctance, Vegeta, despite his pride, finally gives his ki to Goku, who uses it to strike a piercing blow into Broly, causing the Legendary Super Saiyan's power to become unstable, and he explodes.
Just as the comet strikes and destroys New Vegeta, Goku, his allies, and the slaves cheer as they escape in Piccolo's spaceship to return to Earth.
A third English dub produced and released exclusively in Malaysia by Speedy Video features an unknown voice cast.
The following songs were present in the Funimation dub ofDragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan:[3] The remaining pieces of background music were composed by Mark Menza.
The Triple Feature release contains an alternate audio track containing the English dub with original Japanese background music byShunsuke Kikuchi, an opening theme of "Cha-La Head-Cha-La", and an ending theme of "Burning Fight —A Close, Intense, Super-Fierce Battle—".
In Japan, the film sold3.5 million tickets[4] and grossed¥2.33 billion[5][6] ($21 million).[7]
On September 15 and 17, 2018, the film had a limited theatrical release byFathom Events in the United States due to the upcoming release ofDragon Ball Super: Broly (2018).[8] According toBox Office Mojo, as of September 19, 2018, it made a revenue of $658,982.[9] This adds up to a total gross of$21,658,982 in Japan and the United States.
In Japan, thehome video release sold 40,000 units by 1996.[10]
It was released onDVD andVHS in North America on August 26, 2003. Plus, it was released it in a bundle along withBroly – Second Coming (1994) forBlu-ray on November 13, 2007, both feature full1080p format inHDremastered16:9 aspect ratio and an enhanced5.1 surround mix. It was later released in Triple Feature set with 2Broly films andBio-Broly (1994) for Blu-ray and DVD on March 31, 2009. The film was re-released to DVD in remastered thinpak collection on December 6, 2011, containing the second 4Dragon Ball Z films.[11]
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