Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler

Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler is a 1992 Japanese animated action film. The people of New Namek, the homeworld of the Namekians, find their planet under attack by a vast mechanical world that begins draining its energy and seizing its inhabitants. Dende, now guardian of Earth, asks Goku and his friends for help, and the group heads to New Namek to free the planet. There they confront the force behind the invasion and discover it is connected to Cooler, the brother of Freeza, who was believed to have been defeated.

The film is directed by Daisuke Nishio, the eighth of fourteen films he directed in chronological order, following Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13! and preceding Kindaichi Case Files: The Opera House Murders. Takao Koyama wrote the screenplay. The voice cast includes Masako Nozawa as Goku and Gohan, Toshio Furukawa as Piccolo, Mayumi Tanaka as Kuririn and Yajirobe, Ryou Horikawa as Vegeta, Kōhei Miyauchi as Kame-sen'nin and Naoki Tatsuta as Oolong. It runs 46 minutes and was produced by Toei Animation, Bird Studios and Toei Company.

Worldwide box office came to about 20 million USD. On IMDb it holds 6.9/10 from around 9,500 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.5/10 from roughly 1,100 votes, indicating generally favorable but not unanimous audience responses.