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One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta

2007 Japanese anime film directed by Takahiro Imamura

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ1134372 ↗
Source-derived summary

One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta (Japanese: ONE PIECE エピソードオブアラバスタ 砂漠の王女と海賊たち, Hepburn: Wan Pīsu: Episōdo Obu Arabasuta: Sabaku no Ōjo to Kaizokutachi; lit. One Piece: Episode of Alabasta: The Desert Princess and the Pirates) is a 2007 Japanese anime action adventure fantasy film directed by Takahiro Imamura and written by Hirohiko Kamisaka. It is the eighth film in the One Piece film series, adapting a story arc from the original manga by Eiichiro Oda, wherein the Straw Hat Pirates travel to the Kingdom of Alabasta to save the war-and drought-plagued country from Sir Crocodile and his secret crime syndicate Baroque Works.

In Japan, the film was released on March 3, 2007, where it was shown alongside the Dr. Slump short Dr. Mashirito and Abale-chan. It peaked at second place of the weekend box office and grossed $7,075,924. Worldwide, the film has grossed a total of $7,090,891. The film was briefly shown at select theaters across the United States, before it was released on DVD in North America on February 19, 2008, and the Blu-ray released on January 27, 2009.

Plot

While escorting princess Nefertari Vivi to her home in the kingdom of Alabasta, the Straw Hat Pirates briefly encounter Baroque Works member Mr.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta” as 2007 Japanese anime film directed by Takahiro Imamura. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Piece, Movie and Desert.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2008, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Piece, Movie and Desert providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1134372. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007, 2008 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.