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Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle

Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle

Action · Animation · Fantasy · 1987

Goku and Kuririn are given an assignment by Kame-Sen'nin: "Retrieve the sleeping princess from Lucifer and I will take you as my students." But the mission proves to be more perilous than originally thought.

Movie details

Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle

1987 Action · Animation · Fantasy 45m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

6.7 / 10

Community rating

Goku and Kuririn are given an assignment by Kame-Sen'nin: "Retrieve the sleeping princess from Lucifer and I will take you as my students." But the mission proves to be more perilous than originally thought.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Daisuke Nishio

Written by

Keiji Terui · Yoshifumi Yûki

Masako Nozawa

Masako Nozawa

Son Goku (voice)

Mayumi Tanaka

Mayumi Tanaka

Kuririn (voice)

Nachi Nozawa

Nachi Nozawa

Lucifer (voice)

Hiromi Tsuru

Hiromi Tsuru

Bulma (voice)

Toru Furuya

Toru Furuya

Yamucha (voice)

Naoko Watanabe

Naoko Watanabe

Puar (voice)

Naoki Tatsuta

Naoki Tatsuta

Oolong (voice)

Court is in session

Put Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.