Year: 1990
Runtime: 60 mins
Language: Japanese
Director: Daisuke Nishio
An ancient threat awakens beneath the ice. Dr. Kochin uses the Dragon Balls to revive his mentor, Dr. Wheelo, whose body was destroyed in an avalanche fifty years earlier. Wheelo seeks the strongest warrior’s body, believing Master Roshi fits the role, and kidnaps Bulma to force Roshi’s surrender. Goku learns of the abduction and races to rescue them and stop Wheelo’s plan.
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Gohan [Masako Nozawa] and Oolong search for the Dragon Balls, and their radar shows the orbs are being gathered by an unknown party. They follow the signal to a region near a towering wall of ice where Piccolo [Toshio Furukawa] is training, setting the stage for a clash of powers and destinies.
Meanwhile, the mad scientist Dr. Kochin [Koji Yada], having successfully gathered all of the Dragon Balls, summons Shenron [Kenji Utsumi] and wishes for Dr. Wheelo and his lab to be released from the ice. The ice cracks open as a building emerges, and Gohan and Oolong are attacked by Kochin’s bio-men. Piccolo saves them but is overwhelmed by three mysterious warriors, Kishime [Yukimasa Kishino], Ebifuryâ [Ken Yamaguchi], and Mikokatsun [Daisuke Gori], forcing Gohan and Oolong to escape.
Dr. Kochin and his bio-men soon present themselves to Master Roshi [Kohei Miyauchi], who refuses to join them and defeats the bio-men. Kochin kidnaps Bulma [Hiromi Tsuru] to force Master Roshi to pursue them. At Wheelo’s lab, Roshi is compelled to fight the three bio-warriors but is swiftly defeated. Bulma discovers Wheelo’s plan: to obtain the body of Earth’s strongest warrior to become the host for his brain, which is currently separated from his deceased body and kept alive by advanced technology. She informs him that Goku [Masako Nozawa] will undoubtedly be coming to rescue them and that he is much stronger than Roshi.
Meanwhile, Goku learns of the situation, arrives at Dr. Wheelo’s lab, and is confronted by Mikokatsun, Kishime, and Ebifuryâ. Goku defeats Mikokatsun but is frozen by an ice-like attack from Ebifuryâ. Gohan [Masako Nozawa] and Krillin [Mayumi Tanaka] arrive to help, but Kishime proves a tougher challenge. Goku breaks free with his Kaio-ken, defeats the two remaining bio-warriors, and confronts Wheelo. Piccolo, brainwashed by Wheelo, attacks Goku. Gohan tries to stop Piccolo but fails, triggering a furious outburst that shatters Wheelo’s brainwashing device. Dr. Wheelo is stunned by Gohan’s power and longs to steal his body.
He breaks his robot body free from the ice wall, knocking Kochin down a shaft to his death. Wheelo then savagely presses the fight, leaving only Goku and Piccolo to stand against him. Goku knocks Wheelo into the atmosphere and begins to form a powerful Spirit Bomb. Wheelo interrupts him, forcing the friends to distract him, and the team eventually helps Goku unleash the bomb, which destroys Wheelo.
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