Dragon Ball: The Path to Power (Japanese: ドラゴンボール 最強への道, Hepburn: Doragon Bōru Saikyō e no Michi), is the seventeenth Japanese animated feature film based on Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball manga, following the first three Dragon Ball films and thirteen Dragon Ball Z films. It is a re-telling of the original Dragon Ball anime series, mixing the elements from the first Dragon Ball search and the later Red Ribbon storyline. It was originally released in Japan on March 2, 1996 at the Toei Anime Fair, along with the movie version of Neighborhood Story.