English Release
The English rights to Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle were granted to Harmony Gold USA originally in conjunction with their rights to the TV series in 1989. They edited the other two movies into a special, but never actually did anything with this film other than use bits of footage in their opening theme. Their deal with Streamline Pictures, MGM Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment, and Orion Pictures led to a possible limited sub only release of the film in the mid 1990s. Funimation acquired the film in 1995, along with the Dragon Ball series, and the rest of the movies. The English dub of Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle produced by Funimation was released to VHS in North America in 1998, a few years after Funimation canceled their original short-lived dub of the series with BLT Productions. The movie was dubbed as a video special and was a testing ground to see how a release with an in-house voice production would do. However, while the film was dubbed uncut, the opening and closing sequences were altered/replaced. However, unlike the previous dub of the series and first movie, the original musical score was used except for the aforementioned opening and closing. The VHS was released in two formats, "Edited" and "Unedited". In December 2005, the film was released on a bilingual Region 1 DVD individually and as part of Dragon Ball Movie Box Set with Mystical Adventure and The Path to Power. This set was re-released in a thinpack on February 12, 2008. The film was distributed to VHS and Region 4 DVD in Australia by Madman Entertainment. The film was re-released to Region 1 DVD again in a remastered 4-disc Movie pack release with the other Dragon Ball films on February 8, 2011 containing Funimation's existing English dub, but restored most of the previously edited footage, including the opening/ending.
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