Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone

Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone, (ドラゴンボールZ　オラの悟飯を返せッ!!, Doragon Bōru Zetto: Ora no Gohan o Kaese!!) also known as Dragon Ball Z: The Movie, is the fourth film in the Dragon Ball franchise and the first based on Dragon Ball Z. It was released on July 15, 1989 in Japan. The film's events take place before Z and Raditz's arrival on Earth. Notably, the character Garlic Jr. would later reappear as a filler character in the anime.

Dubbing History
Dead Zone was first dubbed by FUNimation, in association with Pioneer Entertainment, utilizing the same Vancouver-based voice actors from Ocean Productions as Saban's dub for the TV series. In contrast with Saban's highly edited and censored dub for the series, the movie was dubbed uncut and with the original Japanese score by Shunsuke Kikuchi left intact. Though when aired on Toonami, the opening and end credit music was replaced with the Saban/Ocean Dub's opening "Rock the Dragon" by Shuki Levy, and it was also edited for content. These edits included profanity, the scene when Goku emerges naked from fishing underwater, and the scene when Gohan urinates on Krillin's head from high above.

The movie was dubbed again in France by the AB Groupe for European distribution under the title In Pursuit of Garlic. The AB Groupe dubs were based on the French dub and had little rewriting to help mold the dialogue to the animations mouth. It would air in the Netherlands and on Toonami in the United Kingdom. The quality of the AB Groupe dubs (known as "The Big Green" dub in reference to the nickname given to Piccolo in this dub) is infamous in the Dragon Ball fanbase for its poor syncing, unfitting and limited casting choices and motor mouth dialogue. This dub is included as an alternate track on DVD in the Netherlands.

After Pioneer's distribution license for Movies 1-3 and Saban's initial dub of Episodes 1-67 expired, FUNimation would go back and redub them with their own in-house dubbing cast. Their dub was first released on DVD in 2005 with a new score by Mark Menza, though later releases would also include an audio track with Shunsuke Kikuchi's original score left intact.

Video Releases

 * released in double pack with The World's Strongest
 * released as part of a 5-in-1 movie collection with The World's Strongest, The Tree of Might, Lord Slug, and Cooler's Revenge
 * released as part of the Rock the Dragon Edition box set