Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan

Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan, known in Japan as Dragon Ball Z: Burn Up!! A Close Fight - A Violent Fight - A Super Fierce Fight (Japanese: ドラゴンボールZ 燃えつきろ!!熱戦・烈戦・超激戦, Hepburn: Doragon Bōru Zetto Moetsukiro!! Nessen Ressen Chō-Gekisen) or by Toei's own English title Dragon Ball Z: The Burning Battles, is a 1993 Japanese anime science fiction martial arts film and the eighth Dragon Ball Z feature movie. The original release date in Japan was on March 6, 1993 at the Toei Anime Fair alongside Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: N-cha! Clear Skies Over Penguin Village. It was dubbed into English by Funimation in 2003.

Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan
Japanese box art
Directed byShigeyasu Yamauchi
Produced byChiaki Imada (Executive Producer)
Yoshio Anzai (Shueisha)
Written byTakao Koyama
Based onDragon Ball
by Akira Toriyama
StarringSee below
Music byShunsuke Kikuchi
Distributed byToei Company
Release date
March 6, 1993 (1993-03-06)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office$21.7 million

The antagonist Broly was created by Takao Koyama and was designed by series creator Akira Toriyama.[1] This film is the first of five movies featuring the character, followed by Broly – Second Coming and Bio-Broly in 1994, and Dragon Ball Z: Super Tenkaichi Budokai in 2017and Dragon Ball Super: Broly in 2018, the first movie to carry the Dragon Ball Super branding.

Plot

On his planet in the Otherworld, King Kai senses the destruction of the South Galaxy by an unknown Super Saiyan, telepathically contacting Goku upon realizing that the North Galaxy will be targeted next. At that moment, Goku and Chi-Chi are sitting down having an interview at a private school which they hope Gohan will attend, Goku abruptly uses Instant Transmission to reach King Kai's planet and get the entire story.

Back on Earth, the Z-Fighters are having a picnic in an unknown peaceful area when a spaceship lands nearby and an army of emerging humanoids greet Vegeta as their king. Their leader is a Saiyan, Paragus, who claims that he has created a New Planet Vegeta and wishes for Vegeta to accompany him in order to rule as the new king. Vegeta initially refuses but agrees after Paragus tells him that a being known as the "Legendary Super Saiyan" is running rampant throughout the galaxy and must be destroyed before he comes to Earth. Skeptical of Paragus' story, Gohan, Trunks, Krillin, Master Roshi and Oolong go along with Vegeta.

On New Vegeta, Vegeta meets Paragus' son, Broly, and the two leave together to hunt down the Legendary Super Saiyan. Gohan, Trunks, and Krillin meet the planet's slaves and defend them from their abusive masters. During the struggle, Goku arrives via Instant Transmission, having followed their energy signals after King Kai's story. The slaves tell them that the Legendary Super Saiyan destroyed their planet, and they were found by Paragus, who made them into his slaves. That night, Vegeta and Broly return, having had no luck. While Vegeta receives Goku coldly, Broly appears agitated at the mere sight of him as Paragus calms his son down by raising his hand as a light shines on his bracelet. But Broly later attacks Goku in the middle of the night with the two evenly matched before Paragus appears and calms Broly down again. After the fight, Goku suspects that Broly is the Legendary Super Saiyan due to their similar ki and also begins to doubt Paragus' claims. Paragus, for his part, has been controlling Broly with a mind-control device, which he suspects may be malfunctioning. Paragus then realizes that Broly is responding to Goku: The two revealed to have been born on the same day and it was Goku's high battle power that was stimulating Broly's dangerous Saiyan instincts.

Vegeta soon loses patience with Paragus and decides to return to Earth with the others, as Goku and the others confront Paragus upon learning the truth of Broly which the slaves even confirmed to be one who destroyed their planet. Broly's rage against Goku swells up to the point of breaking free of the mind control device as he transforms into a behemoth of a Super Saiyan: the Legendary Super Saiyan. Broly proceeds to attack Goku and the others while Vegeta lost his will to fight at the sight of the Legendary Super Saiyan. Paragus taunts Vegeta for being naïve while revealing that Broly was born with a power level of 10,000, feared by King Vegeta to the point of ordering the child's death on the day. Paragus pleaded for his son and was severely wounded and left for dead, Broly's power manifesting to blast them off of Planet Vegeta as it was destroyed by Frieza. But Broly's legendary power rendered him severely unstable as he got older. Paragus was forced to use a mind-control device to pacify his son after being blinded in one eye, intending to have his revenge on King Vegeta's bloodline and convert Earth into new Planet Vegeta to rule the entire universe from. Furthermore, a comet, Camori, is approaching New Vegeta and will destroy it upon impact.

Broly makes quick work of Goku, Gohan, and Trunks. Piccolo arrives with Senzu beans and is also beaten, but summons enough will power to forcibly bring Vegeta to the battlefield. Seeing Broly pummel his friends repeatedly eventually gives Vegeta enough incentive to join the fight, but he also proves to be no match for Broly. Paragus tries to escape from New Vegeta by himself, only for his escape pod to be crushed by Broly and flung into the comet. However, despite Broly's power, Goku refuses to stay down, and takes every blow Broly lands on him, even with his friends offering him their remaining power. After much reluctance, Vegeta finally gives some of his energy, which gives Goku enough power to resist Broly and is able punch him in the abdomen (because Broly unknowingly left himself open to an attack) causing Broly to bleed profusely and apparently explode.

Just as Camori hits and destroys New Vegeta, the Z Fighters and the slaves escape in the spaceship Piccolo used to follow Goku and Vegeta. Goku and Gohan teleport straight to their garden, where they are confronted by a furious Chi-Chi, who scolds Goku for leaving during the interview. Goku then comically recites what Chi-Chi told him to say for the school interview, causing her to faint.

Cast
Character Japanese voice English voice
(AB Groupe, c. 2003)[2] (FUNimation, 2003)
Goku/KakarotMasako NozawaDavid Gasman
Jodi Forrest (baby)		Sean Schemmel
Stephanie Nadolny (baby)
BrolyBin Shimada
Hiroko Emori (baby)		Doug Rand (adult/baby in one scene)
Jodi Forrest (baby)		Vic Mignogna
Cynthia Cranz (baby)
GohanMasako NozawaJodi ForrestStephanie Nadolny
VegetaRyou HorikawaEd Marcus as VejitaChristopher R. Sabat
ParagusIemasa KayumiPaul BandeyDartanian Nickelback
TrunksTakeshi Kusao
Hiromi Tsuru (baby)		Doug Rand
Jodi Forrest (baby)		Eric Vale
Stephanie Nadolny (baby)
PiccoloToshio FurukawaPaul Bandey as Big GreenChristopher Sabat
KrillinMayumi TanakaSharon Mann as ClearinSonny Strait
Master RoshiKouhei MiyauchiEd Marcus as Old TortoiseMike McFarland
BulmaHiromi TsuruJodi Forrest as BloomaTiffany Vollmer
Chi-ChiNaoko WatanabeSharon MannCynthia Cranz
OolongNaoki TatsutaDavid GasmanBradford Jackson
Bulma's MotherHiroko EmoriJodi Forrest as Blooma's MotherCynthia Jane Cranz
Dr. BriefsJōji YanamiPaul BandeyChris Forbis
King VegetaMasaharu SatouEd Marcus as King VejitaChristopher R. Sabat
King KaiJōji YanamiEd Marcus as KeishSeán Schemmel
ShamoHiroko EmoriDoug RandAmber Nicole Cotton
Shamo's GrandfatherMasaharu SatouEd MarcusSean Barker
Octopus Scientist (タコ科学者, Tako kagaku-sha)Naoki TatsutaK. Williams
NarratorJōji YanamiKyle Hebert

A third English dub produced and released exclusively in Malaysia by Speedy Video features an unknown voice cast.

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):
    • Bāningu Faito —Nessen • Ressen • Chō-Gekisen— (バーニング・ファイト―熱戦・烈戦・超激戦―, "Burning Fight —A Close, Intense, Super-Fierce Battle—")

Funimation dub soundtrack

The following songs were present in the Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan:[3] The remaining pieces of background music were composed by Mark Menza.

  1. Tendril - Eternal Sacrifice (Opening Theme of Movie)
  2. El Gato - Lost in America (Part 1)
  3. Brave Combo - Dance of the Hours (Part 1 & 2)
  4. Pointy Shoe Factory - On Your Knees
  5. Pointy Shoe Factory - Bump in the Night
  6. Doosu - Louisiana House Fire. Mid 1950
  7. The Aleph - Lazarus
  8. Slow Roosevelt - Boys Lie, Girls Steal
  9. Spoonfed Tribe - Beetle Orange
  10. Dokodemo Doa - Fearful Yet Hopeful
  11. Pointy Shoe Factory - The Dub and the Dead
  12. Pantera - 10's
  13. Tendril - Invisibles
  14. Gravity Pool - Reach
  15. Gravity Pool - Won't Give In
  16. Haji's Kitchen - Day After Day
  17. Slow Roosevelt - Silverback
  18. Haji's Kitchen - Lost
  19. El Gato - Stained-Glass Windshield

However, on the Broly Triple Feature, there is an alternate audio track containing the English dub with original Japanese background music by Shunsuke Kikuchi.

Releases

Box office

In Japan, the film sold 3.5 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 by Fathom Events in the United States due to the upcoming release of Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018).[8] According to Box 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.

Home media

In Japan, the home video release sold 40,000 units by 1996.[10]

It was released on DVD and VHS in North America on August 26, 2003, over 10 years after its initial release. Plus, it was released it in a bundle with Broly – Second Coming on Blu-ray on November 13, 2007, both feature full HD 1080p resolution with digitally remastered and an enhanced 5.1 surround mix. It was later remastered and released in a Triple Feature set with the original Broly films and Bio-Broly on Blu-ray and DVD on March 31, 2009. The film was re-released to DVD on December 6, 2011 in a remastered box set containing the second four Dragon Ball Z movies.[11]

References
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  3. Imada, Chiaki (Producer), & Yamauchi, Shigeyasu (Director). (2002 Jan 22). Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan [Motion picture]. Japan: FUNimation.
  4. "予約特典・ドラゴンボール最強への道・劇場版ご近所物語A5サイズ前売特典冊子". Dragon Ball: The Path to Power brochure (in Japanese). Toei Animation. 1996.
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  9. "Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan (2018 re-release)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
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