Dragon Ball: The Path to Power , is the seventeenth Japanese animated feature film based on the Dragon Ball manga, following the first three Dragon Ball films and thirteen Dragon Ball Z films. It is a re-telling of the original Dragon Ball anime series and is also the longest film in the franchise. It was originally released in Japan on March 4, 1996 at the Toei Anime Fair, along with the movie version of Neighborhood Story. The film was produced to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Dragon Ball franchise. Goku is a monkey-tailed boy with superhuman strength and skilled in martial arts,... living all alone on Mount Paozu. One day, after he catches a fish to eat, a girl in a car almost hits him. He mistakes the car for a monster and throws it onto its side, but gets shot by Bulma in return. He thinks she's some kind of demon, but she ends up convincing him she's human, even though she doesn't have a tail. He invites her into his house since his dead grandpa always told him to be nice to girls, and there she goes straight for his only keepsake.
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| Release date: | March 4, 1996 |
| Directed by: | Shigeyasu Yamauchi, Mitsuo Hashimoto |
| Runtime: | 80 Minutes |
| Producer: | Tan Takaiwa, Yoshio Anzai, Tsutomu Tomari |
| Music by: | Akito Tokunaga |
| Screenplay by: | Aya Matsui, Akira Toriyama |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Children's, Action, Animation, Fantasy |