THE FIRST SLAM DUNK Anime Film Scores 38th Place on the JP All-Time Box Office Charts

 

This weekend saw the Takehiko Inoue-directed anime film THE FIRST SLAM DUNK surpass Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King to become the 38th highest-grossing film of all-time in Japan with over 10.3 billion yen made.

 

As of February 12, THE FIRST SLAM DUNK has made a total of 10.38 billion yen (US$77.90 million) at the Japanese box office with 7.11 million tickets sold for the basketball flick. This makes it the 38th highest-grossing film of all-time in Japan, as well as the 12th highest-grossing anime film in Japan of all-time, just below The Wind Rises at 12.02 billion yen. Slam Dunk continues to be the highest-grossing film of the 2023 Japanese box office year.

 

 

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The original Slam Dunk TV anime aired from 1993 to 1996, with four anime films being spun off from the original anime. You can catch an on-demand replay of the TV anime right here on Crunchyroll, which describes the series as such:

 

Hanamichi Sakuragi, an entering freshman at Shohoku High, holds a record for being rejected by 50 girls during middle school. Ever since the last girl turned him down for a guy on the basketball team, Sakuragi’s been traumatized by the sport.

 

THE FIRST SLAM DUNK opened in Japan on December 3 in regular and IMAX theaters and expanded to Dolby Cinema screens on December 10.

 

Source: Kogyo Tsushin

 

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Daryl Harding is a Senior Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.