Dragon Ball Z Movie 3

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A Super Decisive Battle for Earth
Japanese English
地球まるごと超決戦 Chikyū Marugoto Chōkessen
Premiere Date	07 July 1990
Premiere Event	1990 Toei Anime Fair (Summer)
EIRIN Code	113237
Running Time	60 minutes
Film Premiere Data
Total Gross	Unknown
Net Earnings	¥800 million (approx. US $5.4 million)
Attendance	2.2 million
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Takao Koyama
Art	Yūji Ikeda
Animation	Minoru Maeda
Director	Daisuke Nishio
Executive Producer	Chiaki Imada (Toei Animation) Tamio Kojima (Shueisha)
Production	Toei Animation
FUNimation Dub
Title	The Tree of Might
Premiere Date	27 May, 1998 (Original Dub) 14 November, 2006 (Remastered Dub)

"A Super Decisive Battle for Earth" is the third theatrical film of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball Z. The movie premiered, which was additionally dubbed Akira Toriyama: The World, as the other two movies premiering at the fair were based on works by Akira Toriyama — Pink and Kennosuke-sama, on 07 July 1990. It was written by series composer Takao Koyama and directed by Daisuke Nishio.

Summary

Gohan, Kuririn, Bulma, and Oolong are spending a peaceful day camping, but that night a huge fire breaks out it the nearby forest. Using their ki, Kuririn and Gohan put out the fire and use the Dragon Balls to restore the forest. Unbeknownst to our heroes, the fire was started by a space probe landing. The next morning the space pod begins scouting the area and it is soon revealed that it was sent by a Saiyan, Tullece, who has chosen the Earth to plant the Shinseiju (lit. “Tree of Godly Might”). The Shinseiju absorbs the world’s energy, storing it in its fruit, and whoever eats it is granted great power.

Tullece’s minions land and create a fisher in the earth to plant the seed. Kaio recognizes the Shinseiju and warns the Z Warriors of the Earth’s imminent devastation if they don’t destroy it immediately. The Z Warriors head out, but their attacks don’t even leave a scratch on the Shinseiju. Tullece’s minions soon appear and a battle breaks out as Tullece watches on from their space ship. The Z Warriors attack with all they have, but it soon become apparent they are no match.

Tullece soon notices the young Saiyan Gohan and appears before him, trying to convince him to join him and help him conquer the universe. Gohan refuses, so Tullece decides to kill him, but Piccolo intervenes. Unfortunately he is no match for the Saiyan and is sent flying. Tullece decides to have a little fun and creates an artificial moon, forcing Gohan to look at it and transform. Goku notices this and comes to help, only to be attacked by Gohan in Ōzaru form. Hire Dragon appears and calms Gohan, but after seeing this, Tullece shots Hire Dragon. Gohan goes into a frenzy and quickly turns on Tullece. Tullece decides he’s had enough fun and fires a massive ki attack at Gohan, but Goku severs his tail return him to normal just in time so that the attack misses Gohan.

Enraged at Tullece for treating Gohan like this, Goku quickly defeats Tullece’s minions and heads off to take on Tullece. Goku and Tullece’s one-on-one showdown begins and Goku has Tullece on the ropes. However, the fruit of the Shinseiju has finally developed and Tullece grabs one, taking a bite. With the sudden surge of power, Tullece quickly turns the tables on Goku, but the Z Warriors come to his aid. As they take on Tullece, Goku begins to form a Genki-Dama, but the Earth barely has any energy left.

Energy from the Shinseiju suddenly flows into Goku and the Genki-Dama is complete. With the remaining Z Warriors defeated, Goku confronts Tullece and each unleashes their final attack. Goku’s Genki-Dama overwhelms Tullece’s ki attack and hits him head on, sending him flying through the Shinseiju. The massive Genki-Dama also destroys the Shinseiju and its energy is returned back to Earth. With peace returned, our heroes enjoy another camping trip.

Cast

The following table provides the cast as credited in the original Japanese film. Additional characters/cast members not originally credited, or with speaking roles exclusive to a specific dubbing, have been included at the bottom of the table.

Character	Cast
	Japanese	English (FUNimation)
Son Goku	Masako Nozawa	Sean Schemmel
Son Gohan		Stephanie Nadolny
Kuririn	Mayumi Tanaka	Sonny Strait
Yamcha	Tōru Furuya	Christopher R. Sabat
Chiaotzu	Hiroko Emori	Monika Antonelli
Piccolo	Toshio Furukawa	Christopher Sabat
Kame-Sen’nin	Kōhei Miyauchi	Mike McFarland
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Tiffany Vollmer
Chi-Chi	Naoko Watanabe	Cynthia Cranz
Oolong	Naoki Tatsuta	Brad Jackson
Pu'er	Naoko Watanabe	Monika Antonelli
Kaiō	Jōji Yanami	Sean Schemmel
Shenlong	Tesshō Genda	Christopher Sabat
Rezun	Kenji Utsum	Robert McCollum
Rakasei	Masaharu Satō	Robert McCollum
Daiz	Yūji Machi	Mark Lancaster
Kakao	Shinobu Sato’uchi	Jeff Johnson
Amond	Banjō Ginga	Paul Slavens
Tullece	Masako Nozawa	Chris Patton
Narration	Jōji Yanami	Kyle Hebert

Main Staff

The following list provides the main staff responsible for the production of this theatrical film as credited in its respective ending credits.

• Executive Producer: Chiaki Imada, Tamio Kojima
• Planning: Kōzō Morishita
• Production Supervisor: Shōji Kishimoto
• Production Progression: Yūichi Suenaga, Akihiko Yamaguchi
• Scenario: Takao Koyama
• Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi
• Photography: Motoaki Ikegami
• Editing: Shin'ichi Fukumitsu
• Recording: Kenji Ninomiya
• Art Director: Yūji Ikeda
• Animation Supervisor Assistant: Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, Masaki Satō
• Key Animation: Masami Suda, Katsumi Aoshima, Tadayoshi Yamamuro, Hisashi Eguchi, Masaki Satō, Naotoshi Shida, Masahiro Shimanuki, Kazuya Hisada, Takeo Ide, Naoki Miyahara, Hideko Okimoto, Masahiro Naoi, Kazue Kinoshita, Satoshi Horisawa, Yoshitaka Koyama, Tada’aki Miyata, Sōichirō Matsuda, Nobumasa Hayashi, Sachio Kamata, Hiromasa Hanawa, Mitsuko Mutsuzaki, Miho Shimogasa, Masaya Suzuki
• Special Effects:Yukari Hashimoto
• Director (Storyboard): Daisuke Nishio
• Animation Supervisor: Minoru Maeda
• Art Director: Yūji Ikeda

External Links

• Kanzenshuu Movie Guide - Movie 3