When bandits show up to lay claim to a precious treasure, swordsman brothers Kosuke and Rikimaru join with a visiting researcher to protect the last divine dragon and preserve the delicate balance of life on their remote island.
Direction
Toriyama's only directorial work—chaotic, personal, deeply weird.
Writing
Bandits vs. divine ecology in 45 minutes. Zero chill.
Director
Akira Toriyama
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Toriyama wrote, designed, AND directed this—his only time in the director's chair before drowning in Dragon Ball fame.
The 'foreign researcher' trope mirrors Japan's 1980s anxiety about Western scientific intrusion into traditional spaces.
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