Dragon Ball Movie 3

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A Mystical Great Adventure
Japanese English
摩訶不思議大冒険 Makafushigi Dai Bōken
Premiere Date	9 July 1988
Premiere Event	1988 Toei Cartoon Festival
EIRIN Code	25357
Running Time	46 minutes
Film Premiere Data
Total Gross	Unknown
Net Earnings	¥650 million
Attendance	1.9 million
Main Staff Credits
Art	Yūji Ikeda Tatsuo Yamamoto Shigenori Takada
Animation	Minoru Maeda
Director	Kazuhisa Takeno'uchi
Executive Producer	Chiaki Imada
Production	Toei Animation
FUNimation Dub
Title	Mystical Adventure
Premiere Date	21 November 2000

A Mystical Great Adventure is the third theatrical film of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball, and the final film to be released during the airing of the original series. The movie premiered as part of the 1988 "Toei Cartoon Festival" (Toei Manga Matsuri) on 9 July 1988, along with three other films from the Tatakae!! Ramenman, Bikkuriman, and Kamen Rider Black series. It was written by Keiji Terui and directed by Kazuhisa Takeno'uchi. This film is an alternate retelling of Son Goku's and Kuririn's first tournament following their training with the Turtle Hermit, but featuring elements of the 21st Tenka'ichi Budōkai, the Red Ribbon Army Saga, and the 22nd Tenka'ichi Budōkai. It also provides an alternate origin story for Tenshinhan and Chiaotzu.

Summary

With the help of Pilaf's gang, the Miphan Empire's Crane Hermit investigates the location of the Dragon Balls. As a show of gratitude for their assistance, he “rewards” the three of them with impending death, courtesy of Tao Pai-pai. Elsewhere, Goku and Kuririn have been training under the Turtle Hermit for the Miphan Empire's upcoming martial arts tournament. Back in the Miphan Empire, however, Emperor Chiaotzu's precious doll, Ran-Ran, has disappeared. Ostensibly in order to help Chiaotzu find Ran-Ran, the Crane Hermit has begun to gather the Dragon Balls, but he really plans to kill Chiaotzu and take over the country. He will stop at nothing to achieve his aim, and even goes so far as to kill Blue to keep his plan a secret. The imperial army even attacks Bulma and the others, who are also searching for the Dragon Balls.

Meanwhile, the Karin Holy Land is in a state of unrest, as the imperial army is harassing its people in search of one of the Dragon Balls. Upa and his father Bora have found the final Dragon Ball, and decide to head to Miphan to find out its secret. The imperial army follows them and attacks them while they are eating in a restaurant. Fortunately, because of his enormous hunger, Goku is also eating at the restaurant and protects the two of them from the tyrannical imperial army and its robot soldier, Metallic.

Bora decides to enter the tournament in hopes that, if he wins, he can have an audience with the emperor and convince him to stop harassing his people. Goku sees that Upa and Bora have the Four-Star Ball, and he cannot believe they found his grandfather's keepsake. The tournament finally begins, and as the matches heat up, Bulma sneaks into the palace, having had Oolong and Pu'er shape shift into Chiaotzu and Tsuru-Sen'nin, to find all of the remaining Dragon Balls.

Back at the tournament, Bora has easily defeated Yamcha and is about to win the championship when Tao Pai-pai decides to enter in order to stop him. It is soon apparent that Bora is no match for the assassin, and he is impaled as Tao Pai-pai throws him from the ring. Goku is enraged and challenges Tao Pai-pai, vowing to revive the fallen Bora. Tao Pai-pai merely laughs and sends Goku flying off to Karin Tower with a Dodonpa. The Four-Star Ball hidden in Goku's dōgi saves his life, however, and he regains his strength after eating a senzu from Karin.

Tao Pai-pai is sent to find Goku after Tsuru-Sen'nin realizes that the boy has the last Dragon Ball. As the battle begins, the two find themselves in Penguin Village. With some help from Arale Norimaki and the two Gajira, Goku eventually defeats Tao Pai-pai. Meanwhile, back in Miphan, Bulma and the others are caught stealing the remaining Dragon Balls. As they try to escape, they drop the balls into a deep crevice in the bottom of the palace moat. Tsuru-Sen'nin's plans are revealed, and he orders Tenshinhan to kill Chiaotzu. Tenshinhan, however, turns on his master instead, defeating him with a Kikōhō.

Goku arrives just in time to save Upa from Metallic, and Tenshinhan returns Ran-Ran to Chiaotzu. With peace restored to the empire, Goku makes good on his promise and tosses the last Dragon Ball into the palace moat: “Come forth Shenlong!” The skies darken and Shenlong appears. As the credits roll, Goku's wish is granted and Bora is brought back to life.

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	Ceyli Delgadillo
Arale Norimaki	Mami Koyama	Linda Chambers-Young
Yamcha	Tōru Furuya	Christopher R. Sabat
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Tiffany Vollmer
Turtle Hermit	Kōhei Miyauchi	Mike McFarland
Kuririn	Mayumi Tanaka	Laurie Steele
Oolong	Naoki Tatsuta	Bradford Jackson
Pu'er	Naoko Watanabe	Monika Antonelli
Tenshinhan	Hirotaka Suzuoki	John Burgmeier
Chiaotzu	Hiroko Emori	Monika Antonelli
Umigame	Daisuke Gōri	Christopher R. Sabat
Crane Hermit	Ichirō Nagai	Chuck Huber
Tao Pai-pai	Chikao Ōtsuka	Kent Williams
Shenlong	Kenji Utsumi	Christopher R. Sabat
Blue	Toshio Furukawa	Sonny Strait
Metallic	Shin Aomori	Chris Rager
Upa	Mitsuko Horie	Kara Edwards
Bora	Banjō Ginga	Dameon Clarke
Pilaf	Shigeru Chiba	Mike McFarland
Shuu	Tesshō Genda
Mai	Eiko Yamada	Cynthia Cranz
Gacchan	Seiko Nakano
Soldiers	Masato Hirano Hirohiko Kakegawa Hiroyuki Satō
Narrator	Jōji Yanami	Christopher R. Sabat

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
• Script: Keiji Terui
• Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi
• Photography: Motoaki Ikegami
• Editing: Shin'ichi Fukumitsu
• Recording: Kenji Ninomiya
• Art Director: Yūji Ikeda, Tatsuo Yamamoto, and Shigenori Takada
• Animation Supervisor: Minoru Maeda
• Director: Kazuhisa Takenouchi

Music

The following table is a scene-by-scene account of the musical tracks used in this episode. 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 The Suburbs of kenisu's Magicant.

^† These tracks debuted previously. All the rest debut where they are listed.

Dragon Ball Movie 3: Shunsuke Kikuchi OST
Catalogue	Scene	Catalogue/Title	Tonality	Releases
K-601	The Pilaf Gang fails again	K-601	F Minor	Unreleased
K-602	Title Card	K-602	F Major
OP	Opening	Mystical Adventure (TV Size)†	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:1
K-603	Blue rolls into town	K-603		Unreleased
K-604	Chiaotzu's palace	K-604
K-605	The Crane Hermit tells Chiaotzu about Shenlong	K-605
K-606	Blue enters the throne room	K-606	C7
K-607	Tao Pai-Pai confronts Blue	K-607	F Minor
K-608	Tao Pai-Pai kills Blue	K-608
K-609	Bulma's plane is attacked	M611		Daizenshuu 5:4(c)
K-610	Underwater Dragon Ball	K-610	E♭	Unreleased
K-611	Bulma's sub is attacked	K-611	F Minor
K-612	The Mifan Empire	M615		Daizenshuu 5:4(b)
K-613	Muten Rōshi harasses some girls	K-613	C	Unreleased
K-614	Mifan raids Karin	K-614	F Minor	Daizenshuu 5:4(b)
K-102	Girls on the beach 1	K-102†	F Major	Unreleased
K-118	Yamcha wants to go to Mifan	K-118†
K-615	Goku eats	K-615	F Minor
K-616	Bora and Upa enter	K-616	F Major
K-617	The army enters	K-617	F Minor
K-618	Goku's spoon fist	K-618
K-619	Enter Sergeant Metallic	K-619
K-620	Metallic attacks	K-620
K-621	Goku beheads Metallic	K-621
K-622	Enter Tao Pai-Pai	K-622
K-601	Tao grabs Bora's spear	K-601†
K-623	Tao Pai-Pai recognizes Muten Rōshi	K-623
K-607	The Crane Hermit has faith in Tao	K-607†
K-624	Chiaotzu's nightmare	K-624	A+
K-625	Tenshinhan comforts Chiaotzu	K-625	F Major
K-626	At the tournament	K-626
K-627	The festivities begin	K-627
K-628	Yamcha vs Andre the Giant	K-628	F Minor
K-629	Roga Fū-Fū Ken	K-629	F Major
K-630	Pu'er and Oolong transform	K-630
K-631	Tao Pai-Pai drops in	M633	F Minor	Daizenshuu 5:4(d)
K-630	Bulma & co. enter the palace	K-630†	F Major	Unreleased
K-632	Tao vs Bora	K-632	F Minor
K-633	Bora is dead	K-633
K-634	Karin teaches Goku a lesson	K-634	A+
K-635	Tao Pai-Pai flies in	K-635	C
K-636	Arale and the Gatchans	K-636	F Major
K-611	Tao plummets	K-611†	F Minor
K-637	Ten takes out Rōshi	K-637
K-638	Goku flies in	K-638
K-639	Tao foiled by Arale	K-639
K-640	Goku vs Tao	K-640
K-641	Goku gets serious	K-641
K-642	Tao steals the Dragon Ball	K-642
K-643	Goku retrieves the Dragon Ball	K-643
K-644	Tenshinhan's duty	K-644
K-645	Chiaotzu cries	K-645	F Major
K-646	Metallic tries to kill Upa	K-646	F Minor
K-647	Chiaotzu's forgiving heart	M655	F Major	Daizenshuu 5:4(d)
K-648	The Dragon Ball sinks down	M656	C˚7	Daizenshuu 5:4(f)
ED	Bora is resurrected	Dragon Ball Legend (TV Size)†	E Minor	Daizenshuu 1:15

The opening song "Mystical Adventure!" and the ending song "Dragon Ball Legend" are performed by Hiroki Takahashi.

Tidbits

• This movie premiered between episode 118 and 119 of the original anime.

External Links

• Kanzenshuu Movie Guide - Movie 3