Releases
Harmony Gold USA broadcast their dub of this film and Curse of the Blood Rubies as a double feature on independent television and released it to home video in 1989. It was not widely noticed and went under the radar. Their dub changed the names of the characters and had parts of it censored, but they did use the original background music.
Funimation acquired the rights to the film in 2000 and released their dub to Home Video that year.
FUNimation has released the film on DVD in the US, Australia and New Zealand on March 17, 2004 with their English dub and optional Japanese dub audio.
However, the introduction which began the narration of the Dragonballs, a cameo sequence of Pilaf and his gang presenting a global dragon radar to Master Shen and meeting their fate at the hands of General Tao, and a different opening sequence to the movie featuring Goku and Krillin in training were cut. Instead, the opening sequence and scenes aforementioned were replaced with the TV opening sequence.
Another sequence cut was the closing credits featuring a summoned Shenron who fulfilled Upa's wish to bring Bora back to life. The scene was replaced with the TV closing sequence.
Subsequent versions of the FUNimation had restored its introduction and its opening sequence. Unlike the Japanese version, however, the opening sequence had many scenes in freeze-frame animation, as a way to block out the original Japanese credits that were in the sequence. The closing credits was also restored, but with English credits censoring half the screen, also as a way to block out the original Japanese credits scrolling from the right.
The movie was later available along with Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle and Path to Power as part of FUNimation's Dragon Ball Movie Box set released on December 6, 2005. The box set was re-released as a thinpack on February 12, 2008. This set has since been discontinued.
An alternative English dub produced by AB Groupe in France was released in English speaking markets in Europe in the early 2000s.
The film was re-released to DVD in America on February 8, 2011 as a part of a Dragon Ball Movie 4-Pack remastered release from Funimation along with the other Dragon Ball related movies. This release restored all of the previously edited video footage of the film.
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