The First Slam Dunk

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Alternative Titles

Japanese: THE FIRST SLAM DUNK


Information

Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Dec 3, 2022
Producers: Shueisha
Licensors: GKIDS
Source: Manga
Genres: Award WinningAward Winning, SportsSports
Themes: SchoolSchool, Team SportsTeam Sports
Demographic: ShounenShounen
Duration: 2 hr. 4 min.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.741 (scored by 2444324,443 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #492
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #3068
Members: 56,387
Favorites: 811

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Synopsis

Shohoku's "speedster" and point guard, Ryouta Miyagi, always plays with brains and lightning speed, running circles around his opponents while feigning composure. Born and raised in Okinawa, Ryouta had a brother who was three years older. Following in the footsteps of his older brother, who was a famous local player from a young age, Ryouta also became addicted to basketball.

In his second year of high school, Ryouta plays with the Shohoku High School basketball team along with Sakuragi, Rukawa, Akagi, and Mitsui as they take the stage at the Inter-High School National Championship. And now, they are on the brink of challenging the reigning champions, Sannoh Kogyo High School.

(Source: GKIDS, edited)

Background

The movie adapts chapters 223 to 276 from the manga while incorporating original scenes created for the film.

It won the Best Animation of the Year award at the Japan Academy Film Prize in 2023. It also won the awards for Anime of the Year - Film, Best Director, Best Writer, and Best Visual Arts at the 2024 Tokyo Anime Award Festival.

Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Inoue, Takehiko
Director, Script, Original Creator
Kasamatsu, Kouji
Sound Director
Kitada, Katsuhiko
Episode Director, Key Animation
Suganuma, Fumihiko
Episode Director


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Opening Theme

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"LOVE ROCKETS" by The Birthday
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Ending Theme

"第ゼロ感" by 10‐FEET




Reviews

Dec 7, 2022
Never read a single chapter of Slam Dunk in my life and absolutely hate basketball because you can't double dribble. Yet this film was 100% worth watching.

All the players felt so real, blazing fiercely with passion and dedication to achieve victory. Their troubled pasts, challenges and training they had to undergo really amped up the final showdown, almost as if I was watching one of those intense motivational speeches on youtube. The composition went in perfectly when it needed to, encapsulating the scenes beautifully. MHA style.

CGI... You will be throwing up and dying for the first 10 minutes and will (hopefully) recover from it by ...
Jan 15, 2023
Mixed Feelings
'The First Slam Dunk' is fine but is likely not what most fans were waiting for all these years. Objectively this is not a terrible movie, but readers of the manga - especially those who have reread the series recently, will find that the movie leaves much to be desired. The music and sound design were mostly very good from what I can remember, and the 3D was bad at times, but also surprisingly better than expected at times. The voice actors are NOT the same, and some changes are quite jarring and overall unsatisfying. In the end, the movie falls short somewhat in the ...
Feb 4, 2023
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To be honest, I think the "MC" of this movie is just so wrong. Why Miyagi of all people? Out of all 5 people the most mysterious is definitely Rukawa, he pretty much has ZERO background beside basketball is everything to him. We at least know some background about Miyagi already, the MC should be Rukawa instead for the reason why he is the most persistent against being the best of the best in basketball.

Half of the screen time is about Miyagi background and the a lot of the scene in the match has to be cut. For examples, the scene where Kawata did a ...

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