Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan, known in Japan as Dragon Ball Z: Moetsukiro!! Nessen Ressen Chō-Gekisen (Japanese: ドラゴンボールZ 燃えつきろ!!熱戦・烈戦・超激戦; lit. 'Dragon Ball Z: Burn!! Hot Battle - Fierce Battle - Super Intensive Battle'), is a 1993 Japanese anime science fiction martial arts film and the eighth Dragon Ball Z feature film. It was released in Japan on March 6, 1993, at the Toei Anime Fair alongside Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: N-cha! Clear Skies Over Penguin Village. It was dubbed into English and released by Funimation in 2003. It was preceded by Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13! and followed by Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound. The film first aired in the United States on Nicktoons on September 14, 2011.
Broly was created by Takao Koyama and was designed by series creator Akira Toriyama. This film is the first of three titular films featuring the character, followed by Broly – Second Coming and Bio-Broly in 1994. The character also appeared in Dragon Ball Z: The Real 4-D at Super Tenkaichi Budokai, a cinematic attraction at Universal Studios Japan in 2017.
In 2018, a reboot film titled Dragon Ball Super: Broly was released and served as a retelling of Broly's origins and character arc, taking place after the conclusion of the Dragon Ball Super television series.
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Plot
King Kai senses the destruction of the south galaxy by a Super Saiyan and realizes that the north galaxy will be targeted next. He telepathically contacts Goku, who begins tracking the Super Saiyan's energy.
On Earth, a spaceship interrupts a picnic, and an army of humanoid alien soldiers greet Vegeta. Their leader is revealed to be a Saiyan named Paragus who claims that he has created a new Saiyan planet and wishes for Vegeta to assume the throne. Vegeta agrees after Paragus tells him that the "Legendary Super Saiyan" is running rampant throughout the galaxy and must be stopped. Gohan, Future Trunks, Krillin, Master Roshi and Oolong accompany Vegeta onto the ship.
On New Vegeta, Vegeta meets Paragus's son, Broly, who joins him in tracking the Super Saiyan. Gohan, Trunks, and Krillin explore New Vegeta and discover that it is uninhabited except for alien slaves who reveal that a Super Saiyan destroyed their civilization. The masters begin to abuse them, but are fended off by Gohan and Krillin. Goku arrives and is greeted by Paragus, who recognizes him as Bardock's son and invites them to dinner at the palace. Broly is agitated at the mere sight and presence of Goku. Paragus controls his son by using a device on his bracelet that syncs to Broly's headband. Despite this, Broly attacks Goku at night, requiring Paragus to calm him. Goku suspects that Broly is the Super Saiyan, and Paragus contemplates the mind-control device and suspects that it is malfunctioning due to Broly responding aggressively to Goku. Paragus theorizes that Broly's violent Saiyan instincts are awakening due to Goku's power, then remembers they were born on the same day in an attempt to explain their fated encounter after all these years.
Goku and the others confront Paragus upon learning the truth about Broly as his aggression toward Goku swells. Broly breaks free of the mind control device and transforms into the Legendary Super Saiyan. Broly attacks Goku, who Trunks and Gohan defend, while a fearful Vegeta loses his will to fight before the Legendary Super Saiyan. Paragus taunts Vegeta while revealing that Broly was born with a power level of 10,000 and was feared by King Vegeta, who ordered Broly's execution. Paragus failed to persuade King Vegeta to spare Broly's life, who was pierced in the abdomen by a knife and left for dead with his father. At the same time, Frieza destroyed the planet that same day, where Bardock tries to defeat him unsuccessfully. Broly's survival instincts caused him to shield himself and Paragus, and they soared off into space protected by Broly's power. Broly grew unstable and sadistic as he aged. Paragus was forced to use a mind-control device to pacify his son, but planned to use him to exact his revenge on King Vegeta's bloodline and convert the Earth into New Planet Vegeta. Paragus reveals that a comet is approaching New Vegeta and will destroy it upon impact.
Cast
A third English dub produced and released exclusively in Malaysia by Speedy Video features an unknown voice cast.
Music
OP (Opening Theme):
"Cha-La Head-Cha-La"
Lyrics by Yukinojō Mori
Music by Chiho Kiyooka
Arranged by Kenji Yamamoto
Performed by Hironobu Kageyama
ED (Ending Theme):
"Burning Fight —A Close, Intense, Super-Fierce Battle—" (バーニング・ファイト―熱戦・烈戦・超激戦―, Bāningu Faito —Nessen • Ressen • Chō-Gekisen—)
Lyrics by Dai Satō
Music by Chiho Kiyooka
Arranged by Kenji Yamamoto
Performed by Hironobu Kageyama and Yuka
English dub soundtrack
The following songs were present in the Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan: The remaining pieces of background music were composed by Mark Menza. Several licensed songs listed here were removed in later releases due to licensing restrictions.
Tendril - Eternal Sacrifice (Opening Theme of Film)
El Gato - Lost in America (Part 1)
Brave Combo - Dance of the Hours (Part 1 & 2)
Pointy Shoe Factory - On Your Knees
Pointy Shoe Factory - Bump in the Night
Doosu - Louisiana House Fire. Mid 1950
The Aleph - Lazarus
Slow Roosevelt - Boys Lie, Girls Steal
Spoonfed Tribe - Beetle Orange
Dokodemo Doa - Fearful Yet Hopeful
Pointy Shoe Factory - The Dub and the Dead
Pantera - 10's
Tendril - Invisibles
Gravity Pool - Reach
Gravity Pool - Won't Give In
Haji's Kitchen - Day After Day
Slow Roosevelt - Silverback
Haji's Kitchen Warrior (Instrumental)
Haji's Kitchen - Lost
Box office
In Japan, the film sold 3.5 million tickets and grossed ¥2.33 billion ($21 million).
On September 15 and 17, 2018, the film had a limited theatrical release by Fathom Events in the United States due to the upcoming release of Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018). According to Box Office Mojo, as of September 19, 2018, it made a revenue of $658,982. This adds up to a total gross of $21,658,982 in Japan and the United States.
Releases
In Japan, the home video release sold 40,000 units by 1996.
It was released on DVD and VHS in North America on August 26, 2003. Plus, it was released it in a bundle along with Broly – Second Coming (1994) for Blu-ray on November 13, 2007, both feature full 1080p format in HD remastered 16:9 aspect ratio and an enhanced 5.1 surround mix. It was later released in Triple Feature set with 2 Broly films and Bio-Broly (1994) for Blu-ray and DVD on March 31, 2009. The film was re-released to DVD in remastered thinpak collection on December 6, 2011, containing the second 4 Dragon Ball Z films.