# Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle (1987)

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**Original title**: *ドラゴンボール 魔神城のねむり姫*
**Runtime**: 45 min
**Genres**: Action, Animation, Fantasy, Horror
**Directed by**: Daisuke Nishio
**Written by**: Yoshifumi Yûki, Keiji Terui
**Starring**: Masako Nozawa, Mayumi Tanaka, Nachi Nozawa, Hiromi Tsuru, Toru Furuya, Naoko Watanabe

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Mt. Frail, pitch-black winter. A lone torch flickers against a gate carved with screaming faces.

Goku and Kuririn scale a cliff of black ice, lanterns bobbing, while Lucifer’s castle looms—every tower bent like a broken spine.

A 1987 anime steeped in Akira Toriyama’s neon shadows and jump-cut dread.

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