Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle (1987) on Netflix
Goku and Krillin ask Master Roshi to train them, and he agrees on one condition: whoever brings back the Sleeping Princess from Lucifer's castle in the Devil's Hand becomes his student.
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Goku, an eleven-year-old martial artist, comes to Kame House to train under Master Roshi. A monk named Krillin arrives by rowboat asking for the same, and Roshi names his price: the two boys must travel west to the Devil's Hand and bring back the Sleeping Princess, held in a castle by a count named Lucifer. Whoever returns with her becomes his student. Krillin tries to keep ahead of Goku on the road. Meanwhile Bulma, Oolong, Yamcha and Puar, on summer vacation, ask Roshi where Goku has gone and fly to the castle in Bulma's jet. A blonde thief named Launch has heard about the princess too, and follows the boys inside, meaning to steal her first.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle (1987)
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- A video tape simply labelled Dragon Ball surfaced containing a fourth, and chronologically first, English dub of the series, produced and released in the Philippines by Regal Home Video in the mid-1990s. Like Harmony Gold, Regal edited it together with the third Dragon Ball film into one movie.
- Funimation dubbed the film as a video special and used it as a testing ground for releasing with an in-house voice cast, a decision that led a few voices, including Goku's, Bulma's and Launch's, to be replaced in later media.
- The 1998 Funimation English adaptation replaced the Japanese opening theme with the theme song from the 1995 English TV dub, written by Peter Berring and Brian Griffith and performed by Dave Steele, and swapped the ending theme for a condensed instrumental version.
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Funimation's English script was rewritten so that Yamcha, Puar and Oolong already know about Goku's Great Ape transformation at the full moon and know to attack his tail, with the film believed to take place after the Emperor Pilaf Saga episodes "A Wish to the Eternal Dragon" and "The Legend of Goku".
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