The Philippines, Hong Kong, and South Korea premiered the film in August, while Latin America released the film between September and October 2013. The film was released in several countries outside of Japan in the late summer and fall of 2013. It is the first animated Dragon Ball movie in seventeen years to have a theatrical release since the tenth anniversary movie Dragon Ball: The Path to Power in 1996, which followed the first three Dragon Ball films and thirteen Dragon Ball Z films.
It premiered in Japanese theaters on March 30, 2013. Dragon Ball Z: God and God) is the eighteenth Dragon Ball movie and the fourteenth under the Dragon Ball Z brand.
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods ( ドラゴンボール Z ゼット 神 かみと 神 かみ, Doragon Bōru Zetto Kami to Kami, lit.