movie

1992 · Japan

Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler

Tonight at a glance

Runtime: 46 min
Age rating: NR
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Violence: Mild

Why tonight?

Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
In Japanese — subtitles on.

The story

Cooler has resurrected himself as a robot and is enslaving the people of New Namek. Goku and the gang must help.

martial arts
cyborg
transformation
space travel
alien
based on manga
martial artist
super power
doppelgänger
planet invasion

The look

A few frames, chosen rather than collected.

The bill

Kohei Miyauchi — Kame-sen'nin (voice)
Naoki Tatsuta — Oolong (voice)
Tomiko Suzuki — Dende (voice)
Toku Nishio — Mr. Popo (voice)
Toshio Kobayashi — Guide Robo (voice)
Kazunari Tanaka — Namekian (voice)
Hisao Egawa — Namekian (voice)
Kinpei Azusa — Mûri (voice)
Ryusei Nakao — Metal Coola (voice)

Directed: Daisuke Nishio
Written: Takao Koyama

Production

Rating: 6.5 / 10 · 1,118 ratings
Studio: Toei Company, Bird Studios, Toei Animation

The Collection

The complete story, in order.

If this stayed with you

Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.