In the past two days, it has been rumored in the circle of friends that the movie version of " Slam Dunk " is scheduled to be released. Although the film company has not announced the specific release date and content, it only revealed that it will be released in the fall of 2022, it is confirmed that Japan's release date is basically determined on September 22. A domestic film and television company has won the bid and introduced it from China Film, but the specific domestic release date is still not available. It is hoped that it can be released simultaneously with Japan. However, it is said that the producer will be announced on the Maoyan Professional Edition app around the end of May.
Goodbye to the national competition, waiting for 20 years, the youth of the post-80s and 90s is coming back! Sakuragi, Rukawa Kaede , Miyagi, Mitsui, Akagi, Ayako, Haruko , Coach Anxi, see you in our cinema! It can be foreseeable whether this will be the only cartoon in the theater without children, with a group of rough men saying goodbye to their youth.
It is certain that the movieization of "Slam Dunk" has been completed. The basic content of the movie version can be determined as a national competition, Xiangbei vs. Sanwang, but no matter what, after 26 years, "Slam Dunk" may usher in its true finale.
In the mid-1990s, Japan had a widely circulated ranking list, which was about to put "Slam Dunk" together with " Football Young Player " and " Baseball Hero " and is called the three pinnacle works of Japanese sports comics. But to this day, "Football Young Player" and "Baseball Heroes" are still tirelessly launching various sequels/remakes, but "Slam Dunk", which has long been "completed", is no less than these two works in terms of influence.
In particular, considering the huge mass influence of football and baseball in Japan now, it is really hard to imagine that with the comic story of a high school student, "Slam Dunk" created its own sports universe out of thin air, allowing the sport of basketball to take root in Japan and even the entire Asia.
When European and American children often play basketball, they imagine themselves as Michael Jordan , Kobe Bryant or LeBron James , but we absorb endless energy from the stories of Sakuragi Hanado and Rukawa Kaede.
I sincerely look forward to the national competition being brought to the screen. This fall is finally here. As a father, I can take my children into the theater and proudly tell my children that this is your father’s youth! Youth that never regrets!