Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest (ドラゴンボールZ この世で一番強いヤツ, Doragon Bōru Zetto: Kono Yo de Ichiban Tsuyoi Yatsu) is the fifth film in the Dragon Ball franchise and the second based on Dragon Ball Z. It was released on March 10, 1990 in Japan.
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Dubbing History[]
The World's Strongest was first dubbed by Ocean Productions, commissioned by Pioneer Entertainment in conjunction with Funimation. Like Dead Zone, it was dubbed uncut and with the original Japanese score. 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 (mainly profanity).
AB Groupe would also do their own dub for the movie released under the title of The Strongest Guy in the World which aired on Toonami in the United Kingdom and got a release on DVD there.
When Pioneer's license expired, Funimation went back to redub the movie with their own in-house cast. The movie, released on DVD in 2006, contained a new score composed by Nathan M. Johnson, who previously composed the score for the redub of Episodes 1-67. When later re-released, a version of the dub with the original score by Shunsuke Kikuchi was made available as an alternate audio track.
Cast[]
Notes[]
- In the Ocean dub of the movie (as well as their uncut dub of The Tree of Might), Goku's Kaio-ken technique was pronounced correctly compared to both the Ocean and Funimation dubs of the series. Funimation would eventually follow suit with their dubs of Dragon Ball Z Kai and Dragon Ball Super years later. On the other hand, Dr. Wheelo's name is pronounced "Dr. Willow" in the Ocean dub of the movie, while the Funimation dub pronounces it as spelled.
Video Releases[]
| Distributor | Year | Format | Dub | Region | Country | |
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| Pioneer Entertainment | 1998 | 
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Ocean | NTSC | United States | 
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1 NTSC | |||||
| Speedy Video | 
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Speedy | PAL | Malaysia | 
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| Bridge Entertainment | 2001 |
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AB Groupe | 2 PAL |
Netherlands | 
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| Warner Vision | 2003 |
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PAL | United Kingdom | 
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2 PAL | |||||
| FUNimation Entertainment | 2006 | FUNimation | 1 NTSC |
United States |
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| 2008* | ||||||
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A DVB-T | |||||
| 2011** |
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1 NTSC | ||||
| 2013*** | Ocean (edited) | |||||
- released in double pack with Dead Zone
- released as part of a 5-in-1 movie collection with Dead Zone, The Tree of Might, Lord Slug, and Cooler's Revenge
- released as part of the Rock the Dragon Edition box set
- released as part of a 5-in-1 movie collection with Dead Zone, The Tree of Might, Lord Slug, and Cooler's Revenge
External Links[]
- Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest at the Internet Movie Database
- Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
