Since the debut of the Dragon Ball anime series in 1986, Toei Animation has produced seventeen feature films based on the franchise: four films based on the original Dragon Ball anime, thirteen films based on the sequel series Dragon Ball Z, and one film, the eighteenth film, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the series. The films were self-contained stories that do not follow the same continuity as the television series, though a few are relatively easy to place within the timeline of the series.
In addition to the animated feature films, there was also a two-episode original video animation based on the Nintendo's Family Computer video game Doragon Bōru Zetto Gaiden: Saiyajin Zetsumetsu Keikaku (ドラゴンボールZ外伝 サイヤ人絶滅計画?) and a special short film shown at the Jump Festa titled Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!.
There will be an upcoming Dragon Ball Z movie coming out on March 30, 2013.
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list and/or films:
“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)
“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.”
—Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930)