Dragon Ball Movie 1

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Dragon Ball – The Legend of Shenlong
Theatrical Japanese English
ドラゴンボール ・ 神龍の伝説 Doragon Bōru · Shenron no Densetsu
Premiere Date	20 December 1986
Premiere Event	1986 Toei Cartoon Festival
EIRIN Code	25148
Running Time	50 minutes
Film Premiere Data
Total Gross	Unknown
Net Earnings	¥800 million
Attendance	2.4 million
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Toshiki Inoue
Art	Yoshiyuki Yamamoto
Animation	Minoru Maeda
Director	Daisuke Nishio
Executive Producer	Chiaki Imada
Production	Toei Animation
FUNimation Dub
Title	Curse of the Blood Rubies
Premiere Date	09 September 1995 (BLT)

Dragon Ball, later expanded as Dragon Ball – The Legend of Shenlong, is the first theatrical film of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball. The movie premiered as part of the 1986 "Toei Cartoon Festival" (Toei Manga Matsuri) on 20 December 1986, along with two other films: Gegege no Kitarō: Clash!! The Great Extra-Dimensional Goblin Uprising and Kinnikuman: Justice Supermen vs Warrior Supermen (part of the GeGeGe no Kitarō and Kinnikuman series respectively). It was written by Toshiki Inoue and directed by Daisuke Nishio.

Summary

The great King Gourmeth is searching for the Dragon Balls in order to put a stop to his endless hunger. While his two minions are claiming to be loyal in their search for the Dragon Balls, they are actually using much of the power of Gourmeth's army to purge the land of precious "Rich Stones" for their own personal wealth. A young girl named Pansy, who lives in the village surrounding Gourmeth's castle, has had enough of the treachery and decides to seek the Turtle Hermit for assistance.

Elsewhere, a young boy named Goku runs into a girl in search of the Dragon Balls. The girl, Bulma, explains that his grandfather's keepsake is really the Four-Star Ball. The two head back to his home on Mount Paozu, only to discover that the Four-Star Ball has been stolen by Vongo and Pasta. Goku and Bulma pursue them in a capsule plane, but are shot down. The two start heading back, but run into Pansy, who is being attacked by a red oni. The oni transforms into a robot, but freaks out when Goku knocks down a tree with a single punch. The robot transforms and flees, but Goku soon catches him, discovering his true identity is the pig Oolong.

The desert bandit Yamcha suddenly appears and demands they hand over any money or capsules. Realizing how strong Goku is, Oolong has him fight Yamcha. The two clash, but Goku’s hunger soon sets in, and he is hit by Yamcha's Rōga Fū-Fū Ken (Wolf Fang Gale Fist). Bulma appears on the scene, and Yamcha flees, as he's weak against women. Later, Yamcha overhears Pansy mention that Gourmeth's target is the Dragon Balls, and he vows to obtain the Dragon Balls for himself in order to overcome his weakness against women.

Our heroes head to Kame House. There, the Turtle Hermit uses the Kinto-Un to test Goku's purity and is surprised to find that he is able to ride the cloud. Using Oolong's transformation abilities, Bulma obtains the Three-Star Ball, but it is soon stolen by Vongo. He further aims for the Two-Star Ball, but the Turtle Hermit repels the army with his special attack, the Kamehameha. Following by example, Goku fires a Kamehameha, and everyone is shocked. Pansy asks the hermit for his help, but he refuses, and our heroes depart without him to Gourmeth's castle.

Goku faces off against Vongo in an aerial battle, while Yamcha and the others infiltrate the castle. Yamcha fights back against the soldiers' onslaught, but is defeated when he realizes that his opponent is Pasta, a female. As the battle enters Gourmeth's quarters, hunger overtakes the monarch, and he turns into a giant. Bulma realizes that the Dragon Balls are inside his stomach, so she throws the Two-Star Ball into his mouth and calls forth Shenlong. Pansy yells for "the country to be restored to the way it was", and her wish is granted. Having returned to human size, Gourmeth is surprised at how tasty an ordinary apple is. Goku then sets out on a journey to find the Four-Star Ball again.

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	Colleen Clinkenbeard
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Monica Rial
Oolong	Naoki Tatsuta	Bryan Massey
Pu'er	Naoko Watanabe	Brina Palencia
Yamcha	Tōru Furuya	Christopher R. Sabat
Turtle Hermit	Kōhei Miyauchi	Mike McFarland
Pasta	Mami Koyama	Kate Oxley
Pansy	Tomiko Suzuki	Cherami Leigh
Shenlong	Kenji Utsumi	Christopher R. Sabat
Pansy's Father	Shōzō Iizuka	Brian Mathis
Pansy's Mother	Reiko Suzuki	Dana Schultes
Umigame	Daisuke Gōri	Christopher R. Sabat
Pilots	Ryōichi Tanaka
	Michitaka Kobayashi
Soldier	Kōji Totani	Z Charles Bolton
Villagers	Masaharu Satō Kazumi Tanaka Masato Hirano	Kevin Leasur Eric Cherry Daniel Fredrick Charlie Campbell Micah Solusod
Narrator	Jōji Yanami	John Swasey
Vongo	Gorō Naya	Jonathan Brooks
Gourmeth	Shūichirō Moriyama	Jeremy Inman

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
• Planning: Keizō Shichijō
• Production Manager: Shōji Kishimoto
• Scenario Composition: Yoshifumi Yuki
• Script: Toshiki Inoue
• Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi
• Photography: Motoaki Ikegami
• Editing: Shin'ichi Fukumitsu
• Recording: Kenji Ninomiya
• Art Director: Yoshiyuki Yamamoto
• Art Assistant: Kunio Kaneshima
• Animation Supervisor: Minoru Maeda
• Director: Daisuke Nishio

Music

The following table is a scene-by-scene account of the musical tracks used in this film. The background music is composed by Shunsuke Kikuchi, and our in-house K-catalogue numbers apply to tracks composed or arranged by him.

None of the background music (BGM) tracks have official titles, but the officially-released tracks generally do have official catalogue numbers, which are prefaced by letters other than K. These are included in the "Catalogue/Title" column. The documentation and scene descriptions are adapted from kenisu's Magicant.

^† These tracks debuted previously in the Dragon Ball anime. All the rest debut here.

Dragon Ball Movie 1: Shunsuke Kikuchi OST
Catalogue	Scene	Catalogue/Title	Tonality	Releases
K-201	The Legend of Shenlong	M201	C7	Daizenshuu 5:2(a)
K-202	Title Card	M202	F Minor	Daizenshuu 5:2(b)
OP	Opening	Mystical Adventure (TV Size)†		Daizenshuu 2:1
K-203	Digging for rich-stones	K-203		Unreleased
K-204	Vongo departs	K-204
K-205	Gourmeth's wish	K-205
K-206	Goku's mountain home	K-206	F Major
K-207	Goku runs through the woods	K-207	F Minor
K-208	Goku vs fish	K-208
K-209	Vongo and Pasta fly over	K-209
K-210	Goku charges Bulma	K-210
K-211	Goku inspects Bulma	K-211	F Major
K-44	The Four-Star Ball	K-44†	C+
K-212	Goku runs ahead	K-212	F Major
K-213	Bulma's airplane capsule	K-213
K-214	Bulma's offensive	K-214
K-215	Free-falling	K-215	F♯+
K-216	Goku in the river	K-216	F Minor/C+
K-217	That evening...	K-217	F Major
K-218	Pansy in the forest	K-218	F Minor
K-219	Ogre Oolong	K-219	C♯7
K-220	Oolong in armor	K-220	F Minor
K-221	Bat Oolong	K-221
K-222	Bulma encounters Pansy	K-222
K-223	Goku chases Oolong	K-223
K-224	Yamcha's territory	K-224	C♯˚7
K-225	Enter Yamcha	K-225	D Minor
K-226	Yamcha demands capsules	K-226	F Major
K-227	Goku vs Yamcha	M229	F Minor	Daizenshuu 5:2(c)
K-228	Rōga Fū-Fū Ken	K-228		Unreleased
K-229	Bulma meets Yamcha	K-229	F Major
K-230	Yamcha runs away	K-230	C+
K-231	Pansy's story	K-231	F Minor
K-232	Yamcha eavesdrops	K-232	F Major
K-233	Yamcha's wish	K-233
K-118	Yamcha wants to get married	K-118†
K-234	Yamcha and Pu'er take off	K-234
K-235	Gourmeth keeps the balls in his mouth	K-235	F Minor
K-236	Kame House spotted	K-236	F Major
K-237	Kame Sen'nin	K-237
K-238	Calling Kinto'un	K-238	C Major
K-239	Kinto'un arrives	K-239	F Major
K-240	Goku on Kinto'un	K-240	F Minor
K-241	The Three-Star Ball	K-241	C7
K-242	Bulma and Oolong make a deal	K-242	F Major
K-243	Oolong-Bulma and the old man	K-243
K-244	Kame House attacked	M247	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:23(b)
K-245	One Kamehameha after another	K-245	F Major	Unreleased
K-246	Departing the island	K-246	D Minor
K-247	Muten Rōshi and Pansy	K-247	F Major
K-248	Pasta and Vongo report to Gourmeth	K-248	F Minor
K-249	Gourmeth's army sets out	K-249
K-250	Goku vs Vongo	K-250
K-251	Gourmeth is starving	K-251
K-252	Goku destroys Vongo's hoverboard	K-252
K-227	Yamcha and Pu'er infiltrate the castle	M229		Daizenshuu 5:2(c)
K-253	Oolong and Pu'er frighten each other	K-253	B˚7	Unreleased
K-254	Pasta vs Yamcha	K-254	F Minor
K-255	Pasta's bombs	K-255
K-256	Gourmeth transforms	K-256
K-257	Failed Kamehameha	M261		Daizenshuu 5:2(d)
K-258	Shenlong	M262	D˚7	Daizenshuu 5:2(e)
K-259	The Rich Stones are removed	K-259	D Major	Unreleased
K-260	Gourmeth and the apple	M264	F Major	Daizenshuu 5:2(f)
ED	Ending	I'll Give You Romance (TV Size)	E♭ Major	Daizenshuu 2:27

The opening song "Mystical Adventure!" is performed by Hiroki Takahashi, and the ending song "I'll Give You Romance" is performed by Ushio Hashimoto.

Notes

• When the movie premiered in December 1986, it was at that point officially titled "Dragon Ball", and all official promotional items and materials prior to the movie's premiere utilized this title as well. The sub-title "The Legend of Shenlong" was not included as part of the movie's official title until it was released on VHS and LaserDisc in 1987, even though it did appear in the movie's opening animation.
• This movie premiered between episode 43 and 44 of the original anime. It is a modified retelling of the events of the first thirteen episodes of the series, depicting how Son Goku and his friends came together for the first time.

Continuity

The Dragon Balls Gourmeth swallowed show up on Bulma's Dragon Radar.

• In Dragon Ball Chapter 97, it is explained that the Dragon Balls cannot be detected by the Dragon Radar when they have been swallowed by a living being. This chapter was published on 21 October 1986, two months before this film's premiere. The film would have probably been in its final production stages, and it would have been too late to correct the discrepancy.

External Links

• Kanzenshuu Movie Guide - Movie 1