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In this extremely cold winter, 53-year-old Takehiko Inoue lit a fire for basketball fans around the world on Twitter: " Slam Dunk " movie plan coming.
"Slam Dunk" movie version
Release date: Unknown
Official website: https://slamdunk-movie.jp
Since when did you know "basketball"?
Since when did you know "slam dunk"?
In the deep winter surrounded by the epidemic and severe cold, 53-year-old Takehiko Inoue lit a fire for basketball fans around the world.
「【スラムダンク】影视になります!」
On January 7, 2021, the famous Japanese cartoonist Takehiko Inoue pushed such a Japanese update on his social account. Comic fans who cannot read Japanese got this explosive news from the hashtag #slamdunkmovie attached by Takehiko Inoue:
"Slam Dunk" is about to be released as a movie.
Takehiko Inoue’s “official announcement” was originally promoted
However, due to an operational error, when Takehiko Inoue pushed this news for the first time, he did not successfully send out the "Slam Dunk" poster GIF, and people saw only one Pure foundation color picture. But the short text message is enough to make people excited.
Unwilling to be reconciled, Takehiko Inoue added the same text with a picture, and pressed the send button for the second time... But it was not until the third time that the GIF was finally sent in its entirety. The English name of "Slam Dunk" appeared on the electronic screens of thousands of people in the form of hand-drawn animation.
What’s interesting is that the first two tweets with incorrect operations were not deleted by Takehiko Inoue, but were placed on the homepage together with this tweet that was finally successfully pushed. So far, the cumulative likes of these three tweets have exceeded 400,000, and the number of retweets has exceeded 230,000. How amazing is the number
? Take the analogy of the tweets related to the NBA Lakers' championship last season. The picture of the championship trophy posted by LeBron James and immediately had only 70,000 likes and just over 10,000 retweets.
In 2020, "Slam Dunk" has just celebrated its 30th birthday - this comic with the theme of high school basketball was serialized in Shueisha's "Weekly Shonen Jump" from 1990 to 1996. It is the most popular comic in Japan so far The circulation has exceeded 120 million copies.
At the same time, with the huge influence of animation overseas, the global influence of this animation work can no longer be measured by any data: 's song " until the world" that all those born in the 80s and 90s can hum. The end of "; the Kamakura High School-mae Station that you must make a pilgrimage to when traveling to Japan; the phrase "Coach, I want to play basketball" that has long been broken; the phrase "The most glorious" that can always make people burst into tears. Moment" ...
In the minds of a hundred people, there are a hundred reasons to love "Slam Dunk".
In the mid-1990s, Japan had a widely circulated ranking, which put "Slam Dunk" together with " Football Boys " and " Baseball Heroes " and called them the three pinnacles of Japanese sports comics. work. But to this day, "Captain Soccer" and "Baseball" are still working tirelessly to launch various sequels/remakes, but "Slam Dunk", whose story has long been "finished", is not inferior to this one in terms of influence. Two works.
In particular, considering the huge mass influence of football and baseball in Japan, it is indeed difficult to imagine that "Slam Dunk" created its own sports universe out of thin air just by relying on the comic story of a high school student. , allowing the sport of basketball to take root in Japan and even throughout Asia.
When children in Europe and the United States often imagine themselves to be Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant or LeBron James when playing ball, we absorb a steady stream of stories from Sakuragi Hanamichi and Rukawa Kaede Endless energy.
However, as soon as the news of the movie version of "Slam Dunk" came out, it brought more questions: Is the new "movie" an animated version or a live-action version? Is it to condense the past stories, or to put the national competition that I miss so much on the screen?
Even, there are many voices opposing "filmization", but most of these voices come from those extremely loyal fans of "Slam Dunk". They are a little worried that the movie version has lost its chain, but it has affected the status of this masterpiece. .
It must be emphasized that apart from conjecture, the current information about the movie is actually very limited. , even the name of the movie version, has not been officially determined.
Just after Takehiko Inoue tweeted, the official Twitter account of the "Slam Dunk" movie version was also officially established. But the name of the account is "Movie "SLAM DUNK スラムダンク" (タイトルUndecided) Formula", and "タイトルUndecided" means "Title Undecided".
In addition, when browsing the official website of the movie that was launched simultaneously, the information only has a title of SLAM DUNK and a window for displaying synchronized Twitter information.
Although the information is limited, we can still analyze some clues of the new work from the past information of "Slam Dunk" and Takehiko Inoue's personal style.
First of all, in addition to the TV animation version of "Slam Dunk" that we are familiar with, "Slam Dunk" has launched 4 theatrical animations from 1994 to 1995. The publisher also released the movie version this time. Toei Corporation. What needs to be emphasized in particular is that the contents of these four feature-length animations are all brand-new animation plots, and none of them are the same plots as the TV animations and comics.
Attached: All information on the past "Theatrical Version" of Slam Dunk (Source: https://zh.wikipedia.org/)
▋"SLAM DUNK" Slam Dunk
- Released on March 12, 1994, the film is 30 minutes long , directed by Nobutaka Nishizawa.
- The plot time setting is the story of Shohoku having a practice match with Wu Yuan after losing to Lingnan in the practice match and before Miyagi and Mitsui came on stage.
▋《スラムダンク Dominate the country! Sakuragi Hanamichi" (Slam Dunk: Dominate the Nation! Sakuragi Hanamichi)
- Released on July 9, 1994, the film is 45 minutes long and directed by Toshihiko Arisaki.
- The plot is set in the fourth round of the prefectural competition in northern Hunan and the story of Tsukutake, the top 8 player. On the one hand, major characters such as Sendō, Uozumi, Hanagata, Fujima, and Makoto all appear in this theatrical version.
▋《スラムダンク Shohoku’s biggest crisis! "Burning Sakuragi Hanamichi" (Slam Dunk: Shohoku's biggest crisis! Sakuragi Hanamichi ignites fighting spirit)
- Released on March 4, 1995, the film is 40 minutes long, directed by Hiroyuki Kakudo.
- The plot is set in Xiangbei after participating in the county competition finals and losing to from Hainan University High School Affiliated to , and then having a practice match with Green Wind.
▋"スラムダンクBarkえろバスケットマンsoul!! Hanamichi Rukawa no hot summer" (Slam Dunk: Roaring Basketball Player Soul! Hanamichi and Rukawa's Hot Summer)
- Released on July 15, 1995, film length 40 points , the director is Mingbi Masayuki.
- The plot is set after Xiangbei participated in the county competition finals and lost to the High School Affiliated to Hainan University.
- The central character in the story of this film is Rukawa Kaede's junior high school student Mizusawa Ichiro. Therefore, what is different from the first three films is that the focus of the story is not on the competition, but on the human theater as the theme of the story.
Therefore, although the film studio has not disclosed any news about the plot at present, following the style of previous plot versions, we may be able to boldly speculate that this newly released movie version of "Slam Dunk" may also be a brand-new plot story. .
But this new plot will most likely not be a story about the future lives of Sakuragi Hanamichi. Because 17 years ago, Takehiko Inoue himself had brought this work to a "satisfactory" end.
In December 2004, in order to commemorate the cumulative sales of "Slam Dunk" exceeding 100 million copies, Takehiko Inoue used chalk to draw 23 on the blackboard of an abandoned middle school classroom in Kanagawa Prefecture (where the story of "Slam Dunk" is located). The blackboard in a classroom depicts the plot at the end of the comic version of "Slam Dunk", that is, 10 days after the battle between Shohoku and Sanno.
In the work, although Xiangbei defeated Sanno, his vitality was severely damaged and he stopped in the top 16 of the national competition. In the days that followed, Miyagi became the captain of Shohoku; Mitsui stayed on the team to prepare for the winter games; Akagi, who missed Fukasawa Sports University, was still working hard to enter college with Kigure; Rukawa Kaede, who was closest to entering professional basketball, was He was selected into the Japanese national youth team and plans to go to the United States in the future; while Sakuragi Hanamichi went to the beach to recuperate due to a serious back injury. At the end of
, Hanamichi Sakuragi read the letter from Haruko Akagi , and when asked by the doctor, he iconically said: "Because I am a genius!"
was born this time full of performance art. The finale of "Slam Dunk" is called "Ten Days Later" .
A corner of the "Chinese version" of "Ten Days Later"
Three days after the exhibition of "Ten Days Later", Takehiko Inoue silently erased the comics on the blackboard, bringing the story to a true end.
Takehiko Inoue is stubborn. He is a great cartoonist who is so stubborn that he "never changes the lines he has drawn." It is hard to imagine that he will overturn his "ending" and continue the timeline of "Slam Dunk" Go down.
More importantly, looking at his decades of comic career, what he pays more attention to than the story is always the character "itself". All he wants to talk about is youth, passion and regret.
I still remember that at the end of the manga version of Shohoku against Sanno Kotaka, Inoue Takehiko didn't even use a single line of dialogue. In the 40 full pages of , there are only different close-ups of storyboards and : sweat, tears, passing, running, eye contact, physical confrontation, shooting... He depicts the pure game of basketball in an extremely rare way. . silently pushed the game to its climax, making the reader's heartbeat become the only sound outside the game.
"Slam Dunk" comic storyboard summary
Back then, how many people burst into tears because of the regrettable defeat of the Shohoku basketball team in the finale of "Slam Dunk"? Hirohiko Inoue tells us with a story: Youth is inherently imperfect. And now, when "Slam Dunk" returns, no matter what story Takehiko Inoue brings us, we finally have the opportunity to rekindle our youth in memories, finish this memory, and re-live it in the theater. Compose a dream about brothers, basketball, and youth.
Enough, Enough Now
As long as "Slam Dunk" is with us, we will never reach the end of the world.
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