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Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan (1993)

★ 7.2 · 988 ratings on TMDB

As the legend foretold.

Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan poster★ 7.2

While the Saiyan Paragus persuades Vegeta to rule a new planet, King Kai alerts Goku of the South Galaxy's destruction by an unknown Super Saiyan.

DirectorShigeyasu Yamauchi
CastBin Shimada, Hiromi Tsuru, Iemasa Kayumi, Kohei Miyauchi, Masako Nozawa, Mayumi Tanaka
GenresAction, Animation, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

In Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “alien warrior arena”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, identity, destiny, violence, pride.

↷ aliensJPpoweridentitydestinyviolencepride
Also inConsciousness hiding in aliensFilms about identityFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

Dragon Ball: The Path to Power (1996)dir. Shigeyasu YamauchiDragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming (1994)dir. Shigeyasu YamauchiDragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn (1995)dir. Shigeyasu YamauchiDragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (1993)Hiromi TsuruDragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' (2015)Hiromi TsuruDragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler (1992)Kohei Miyauchi