Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies

Original title: Dragon Ball: Shenron no Densetsu

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6.7/10

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Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies (1986)

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Goku and his friends must stop King Gurumes from destroying the city for blood rubies and gathering the seven Dragon Balls.Goku and his friends must stop King Gurumes from destroying the city for blood rubies and gathering the seven Dragon Balls.Goku and his friends must stop King Gurumes from destroying the city for blood rubies and gathering the seven Dragon Balls.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

3.8K

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Buruma
(voice)

Naoki Tatsuta

Ûron
(voice)

Naoko Watanabe

Pûaru
(voice)

Tôru Furuya

Yamucha
(voice)

Kôhei Miyauchi

Kame Sen'nin
(voice)

Mami Koyama

Pasuta
(voice)

Tomiko Suzuki

Panji
(voice)

Kenji Utsumi

Shenlong
(voice)

Shôzô Îzuka

Panji no chichi
(voice)

Reiko Suzuki

Panji no haha
(voice)

Daisuke Gôri

Umigame
(voice)

Ryôichi Tanaka

Untenshu
(voice)

Michitaka Kobayashi

Untenshu
(voice)

Kôji Totani

Heishi
(voice)

Masaharu Satô

Murabito
(voice)

Kazumi Tanaka

Murabito
(voice)

Masato Hirano

Murabito
(voice)

Storyline

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Trivia
This movie was originally released in Japan in December 1986 and all the advertising and promotional material was under the tile "Dragon Ball: Doragon bôru", but in fact the opening credits of the film itself featured "Dragon Ball: Doragon bôru - Shenron no densetsu". This official title was first used in product art in the Laser Disc release of 1987.

Quotes
Son Gokû: [after a low-flying plane passes over him] Whoa, that's a really big bird! And listen to it's tummy growl!

Crazy credits
At the end of the closing credits, there is a small scene with Son Gokû flying on Kinton, and a desert landscape turning into a beautiful lake.

Alternate versions
Some dialog changes and cuts for violence were made for the 1995 dub of the film released by KidMark.

Connections
Edited into Dragon Ball (1989)

Soundtracks
Makafushigi Adobenchâ!
Lyrics by Yuriko Mori
Composed by Takeshi Ike
Arranged by Kôhei Tanaka
Performed by Hiroki Takahashi
(Columbia Records)

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Featured review

7/10

Every franchise has their own first movie.

An alternate storyline of the origins in the Dragonball series. The plot and characters are the same. The story is the only thing made different for this movie. Bulma, a girl searching for the seven dragon balls has come across Goku who owns one of them. After they got acquainted with each other, they decided to set off on a journey to search for the other dragon balls.

On the way there are plenty of new friends who have their own reasons for searching the dragon balls. And soon enter a kingdom which is facing it's own depression. Lead by a Gourmeth who has been cursed by the Blood Rubies which changed his personality. Gourmeth is also trying to collect all 7 dragon balls for his own reason. Will Goku save the Kingdom and cure Gourmeth's curse? The introduction and flow of this movie is very different compared to the TV series. And features several characters you won't see anywhere else. Despite it being only being less than an hour, and containing some similar moments from the earlier part of the TV series. Curse of the Blood Rubies is good for Dragonball's first movie.

Even One Piece has a lot of alternate movies made of the series.

I only saw the edited version of this movie. And yet to see the uncut version of it, which is the only uncut Dragonball movie to not have an Uncut DVD. And might be seeing one sometime.