One Piece The Movie: Episode of Alabasta: The Desert Princess and the Pirates (エピソードオブアラバスタ 砂漠の王女と海賊たち Episōdo obu Arabasuta Sabaku no Ōjo to Kaizoku-tachi) is a 2007 Japanese anime film directed by Takahiro Imamura and written by Hirohiko Uesaka. It is the eighth movie in the anime and manga series, One Piece. It is a retelling of the Alabasta arc. It was released on March 3, 2007 and debuted at #2 in the Japanese box office. The movie has grossed 7,075,924 dollars in Japanese box office and is currently at number 26 in the year-end chart. The film was released on DVD in North America on February 19, 2008 as One Piece The Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates' Adventures in Alabasta and was given a PG-13 rating. http://www.rightstuf.com/cgi-bin/catalogmgr/abAygEIl4Q2zm6daRv/browse/item/76605/4/0/0. The movie was briefly shown at select theaters across the United States before being released on DVD. The movie's english tagline is, "Six pirates may be all that stands between salvation and total destruction".