Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound (1993)
"Doragon bôru Z 9: Ginga girigiri!! Butchigiri no sugoi yatsu" (original title)

The Z Fighters compete in an intergalactic martial arts tournament, but when the tournament is taken over by Bojack, an evil demon who escaped the imprisonment placed upon him by the four ... See full summary »

Director:

Yoshihiro Ueda

Writers:

Takao Koyama, Akira Toriyama (character)

Stars:

Masako Nozawa, Toshio Furukawa, Mayumi Tanaka

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Masako Nozawa	...	Son Gokû / Son Gohan
Toshio Furukawa	...	Piccolo
Mayumi Tanaka	...	Kuririn
Takeshi Kusao	...	Trunks
Tôru Furuya	...	Yamcha
Hirotaka Suzuoki	...	Tenshinhan
Hiroko Emori	...	Chaozi
Ryô Horikawa	...	Vegeta
Daisuke Gôri	...	Mister Satan
Hiromi Tsuru	...	Bulma / Baby Trunks
Naoko Watanabe	...	Chichi / Puer
Naoki Tatsuta	...	Oolong / Bubbles
Kôhei Miyauchi	...	Kame Sennin Muten Rôshi
Tesshô Genda	...	Bôjakku
Toshiyuki Morikawa	...	Gokua

Storyline

The Z Fighters compete in an intergalactic martial arts tournament, but when the tournament is taken over by Bojack, an evil demon who escaped the imprisonment placed upon him by the four Kais when King Kai's planet was destroyed, they must work together to stop Bojack and his minions.

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Plot Keywords:

martial arts tournament | martial arts | martial artist | based on comic | chop socky | 

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Genres:

Animation | Action

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

10 July 1993 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Bojack Unbound

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bird Studios, Toei Animation Company, Toei Doga

Technical Specs

Runtime:

43 min 50 min (DVD)

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Quotes

Bôjakku: It's been so long... since I snapped someone's neck.

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Connections

Follows Dragon Ball Z (1989)

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Soundtracks

"Cha-La Head-Cha-La"
Performed by Hironobu Kageyama

User Reviews

Your basic DragonBall Z movie complete with very short fight at the end.

This DragonBall Z movie was rather entertaining, it just suffers the same flaw a lot of the movies do. They generally have all this lead up, a fight with some underlings, and then you have your fight between the two strongest warriors only to be left disappointed in the fact that the fight is very anti-climatic. This one features the DragonBall Z gang in the martial arts tournament, which for some reason in this movie is full of gimmicks. Some entertainment to be found here as I enjoyed the Tien and Trunks fight. Then this tournament goes onto a second phase, here though some rather unruly participants get involved and start causing major trouble. So the fighting begins between the Z fighters and the strange assortment of villains led by Bojak or whatever his name may be in Japan. It has its moments, but it is also a bit of a disappointment when compared to other movies from the series. Like most of the movies you can usually not fit this one into the flow of the regular series all that well, though it fits a bit better than others. It almost works, but then it doesn't, like the fact Trunks supposedly comes back from the future to fight in a pointless tournament other than help rebuild the decimated Earth from his time. This one also features a one note villain who has absolutely no back story whatsoever. Still, some cool fights here and there and you get to see Mr. Satan who is called Hercule in America. Though I guess it may be a negative to some that he is in this.