Dragon Ball: The Path to Power (1996)
A retelling of Dragon Ball's origin with a different take on the meeting of Goku, Bulma, and Kame-Sen'nin. It also retells the Red Ribbon Army story; but this time they find Goku rather than Goku finding them.
In Dragon Ball: The Path to Power, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “alien quest”. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, quest, war, friendship, sacrifice.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · rare rung · power, war
Damsel (2024)E6/E9/E10 · rare rung · power, sacrifice
Skylines (2020)E6/E13 · rare rung · power, war
Independence Day (1996)E12/E13 · rare rung · power, war
Warcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · power, war
Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)E9/E13 · rare rung · power, warAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)consciousness in aliens · cosmic superhero saga
Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021 (2022)consciousness in aliens · miniature alien war
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)consciousness in aliens · heroic alliance vs alien empire
Justice League (2017)consciousness in aliens · heroic coalition
Battle: Los Angeles (2011)consciousness in aliens · alien invasion war
Masters of the Universe (1987)consciousness in aliens · interdimensional fantasy warSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Saint Seiya Heaven Chapter: Overture (2004)consciousness carried elsewhere · power, sacrifice
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)consciousness in machines · power, war
Transformers (2007)consciousness in machines · power, war
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)consciousness in animals · power, war
Hellboy (2004)consciousness in monsters · power, war
Day Watch (2006)consciousness in monsters · power, warSame people
Shared director or cast.
Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn (1995)dir. Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan (1993)dir. Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle (1987)Daisuke Gori
Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies (1986)Hiromi Tsuru
Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming (1994)dir. Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (1993)Daisuke Gori